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WHITINGS OE HUMBOLDT, M'Cl'LLOCH, MURCHISON 



GILBART. WHIPPLE, AND OTHERS. 



Iraporlant Essays published, or In preparation, for the Bankers^ Magazine, and Statistical ResisteTt 



Those marked * are already published. 



L* J. R, McCcLiLOCH on Interest and the Operation of die Usury Laws. 



II.* J. R. McCcLLOCH on Foreign and Domestic Exchange, with copious Tables 

 of the Value of Moneys of Account, Coins, &.c, 



III. J. R. McCcLi-ocn on Money, Coins, Bullion, Metallic and Paper Currency, 

 SeignoragCj Degradation of the Standard, &e., with copious Tables of the "Weight, 

 Value, &c,, of the Coins of Various Nations, 



IV.* Proceedings of the British Association for the advancement of Science 

 London, Sept., 1340. Observations of Sia E. J. Mukchisox, De la Bechb, 

 and others, on the Gold Mines of California and the Ural. 



v.* JcBGE Bronsox's Opinion in the celebrated case of Leavitt^ Receiver of T^ 

 North American Tru^ and Banking Company/ v. Blatchford and others. 



VI.* Remarks on the Usury Laws, by John Whiffle, Esq^., of Providence. 



Vn.* Accurate Tables of tlie market value of 150 different Railroad, Bank, la 

 Burance, and Manufactacing Stocks, for each month, 1849. 



VIII.* Tables of the Price of prominent English Funds, for each month, from 

 November, 1846, to October, 1849. 



IX.* Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange. Dedicated by permis- 

 sion to Samuel Gumey, Esq., comprising sketches of Loans, Lotteries, Life Assur- 

 ance, Tontines, Bribery, Corruption, Contractors, Rai! ways, Samson Gideon, Abrar 

 luim Goldsmid, Mark Sprot, Sir Francis Baring, David Ricardo, Francis Baily, 

 Nathan Sleyer Rothschild, Greek Loan and Joseph Hume, Poyais Loan and Grcgor 

 McGregor, Frauds, Forgeries, AnecdoteSj and Legends. 



"'3If, Francif baa felgUed, — and raost adimrably fulfilled, — the title of to boofe." — London X'^ 



"Tb« extraordinary franda alJcb hare teen perpetrated from time to time by Stock Exchange a^»c- 

 ulatora, aiTord Mr. Francis ample materials for tlie historical portions of his work; and his sketches of 

 Ihfl maimers of th# Slock Exchange, lU the present time, show that he haa mauls biinaelf Lalimately ac- 

 qimmied with the c^tartoioa of its freqaKUera." — Xo7«ion Ban^er^ Magatintu 



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Personal "Recollections of the late 

 J of the National Bank of New Yor 



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