Dec. 9, 1869] NATURE 155 
LATHES, CHURCH AND TURRET CLOCKS, BELLS, &c. 
PeCOOKE AND SONS 
CLOCK AND LATHE MAKERS TO HER MAJESTY’S HOME AND INDIAN GOVERNMENTS, 
BUCKINGHAM WORKS, YORK. 
Lists of Church, Turret, and other Clocks, made and erected, and Bells supplied and hung by T. COOKE and SONS. Also Illustrated Catalogues o 
Lathes, Planing, Sawing, Copying, and other Machines, may be had on application to the Works. 
CHURCH AND STATE. 
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ESTABLISHED 1820, 
IS THE LEADING WEEKLY ORGAN OF THE CONSERVATIVES. 
The News is carefully condensed, good correspondence 
It gives the earliest Political, Ecclesiastical, and Fashionable information. 
is encouraged, 
THE FINE ARTS, LITERATURE, THEATRES, AND MUSIC 
All receive attention, and Articles on Social Topics form a prominent feature in the Paper. 
Price 5d., Stamped 6d. 
OFFICE—6, WHITEFRIARS STREET, E.C. 
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SCC OL OF CoE MIS te, CLERGY MUTUAL ASSURANCE 
| SOCIETY. 
20, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET, ESTABLISHED IN 1829. 
LONDON, W. OFFICE—No. 2, BROAD SANCTUARY, WESTMINSTER. 
TRUSTEES. 
DirectEeD By ARTHUR VACHER. 
PELICAN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 
| The Arcusisuop of DuBLin. The ARCHDEACON of MAIDSTONE. 
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CHAIRMAN. 
The Venerable the ARCHDEACON of Lonpon. 
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN. 
The Honourable Epwarp W. Douctas. 
Established in 1797, ACTUARY. 
Stewart HE LpeEr, Esq. 
j7o, LOMBARD STREET, CITY, and 57, CHARING CROSS, SECRETARY. 
WESTMINSTER. The Rev. Joun Hopcson, M.A. 
i Total Existing Assurances . 3 44,473,023 0 © 
Directors. | Total Annual Income. 173,545 9 7 
Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq. Total Invested Capital 5 1,693,975 1 6 
Henry R. Brand, Esq. M.P. 
Octavius E. Coope, Esq. 
John Coope Davis, Esq. 
Henry Farquhar, Esq. 
Charles Emanuel Goodhart, Esq. Benjamin Shaw, Esq. 
Jas. A. Gordon, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. Marmaduke Wyvill, Jun. Esq. 
FINANCIAL POSITION. 
For the year ending 31st May, 1869, 315 proposals, assuring £274,540, and 
yielding in annual premiums 49,383 16s. 6a., were completed ; and 488, 482 
| 13s. 1d. was (notwithstanding the large reduction made by Bonus in every 
fifth year from 1831 to 1866, both inclusive) added to the Fund accumulating 
for the purpose of meeting future claims. 
Prospectuses, Accounts of Bonus, &c. &c., to be had at the Office, on 
application personally, or by letter ; also a Pamphlet by the Rev. J. Hodgson, 
| called ‘f Notes on Life Assurance,” containing explanations on various inte- 
Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq. 
Sir John Lubbock, Bart. F.R.S. 
John Stewart Oxley, Esq. 
Total Amount Insured, with Bonus Additions . . 43,007,431 | astararagnatinas 
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ees ane a : per cents Interest cae I pee Clergymen and their Wives, and the relations of Clergymen and of their 
Annual Revenue from Premiums ives £92,787 oat hs | Wives, are invited to make Life Assurances in this Society. 
from Interest . 16 
i one I 50 | OBSERVATIONS IN REFERENCE TO DURATION OF LIFE 
49595 
AMONGST CLERGYMEN. 
The whole invested in Government, Real, and other first-class Securities, | 
in addition to which the assured have the guarantee of a large and wealthy 
proprietary. 
For Prospectuses and Forms of Proposal apply at the Offices as above, or 
to the Agents of the Company. 
ROBERT TUCKER, 
Secretary and Actuary. 
THE MINIATURE SPECTROSCOPE. 
This Instrument will show many of Fraunhofer's Lines, the Bright Lines of 
the Metals and Gases, and the Absorption Bandsin Coloured Gases, Crystals, 
or Liquids. 
Price, with Five Prisms ......... , S3 
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with Achromatic Lenses, adjustable slit... 2 
op 20 
These Instruments can be adapted to the Microscope; price £1 2s. and 
42 12s. 6d. New Illustrated Catalogue of Spectroscopes for 13 Stamps. 
JOHN BROWNING, Optical and Physical Instrument Maker to the Royal 
Observatory, &c. &c., rrx, Minories, London, E.C. 
OZONE.—BARTH’S Apparatus with pure 
Oxygen retained in its nascent state by compression is specific in all Diseases 
arising from impurity of blood. May be had on Hire with option of purchase 
from G. BARTH & CO, 26, Duke Street, Bloomsbury, w.c. 
| Established upon investigations made in the case of five thousand Incum- 
| bents of livings, from the middle of the last century to the middle of the 
| present. 
| BY THE REV. JOHN HODGSON, M.A. 
Of Trinity College, Cambridge Secretary of the Clergy Mutual Assurance 
| Society, and formerly Vicar of St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, and Rural 
| Dean of Westbere. To which is added a Supplement, by Samuel Brown, 
| Esq., Pesident of the Institute of Actuaries. Copies may be had of Messsrs. 
C. and E. Layton, Fleet-street. Price 2s. 6d. each. 
BRAGG’S VEGETABLE CHARCOAL 
or PURE CARBON BISCUITS, a nutritious, pleasant, and healthful diet, 
| which has produced great benefit and positive relief to thousands of sufferers 
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There is medical testimony to its beneficial effect in these complaints.—Sold 
in tins, 1s., 2s., 4s., and 8s. each, by all chemists, and by the manufacturer, 
| J. L. BRAGG, 14 (late 2), Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square. 
SPENCER’S PULMONIC ELIXIR. 
WHEN persontakes cold immediate relief 
may be secured by the use of SPENCER’S PULMONIC ELIXIR. It 
possesses every property which can be beneficial in cases of colds, coughs, 
asthma and al! complaints of the chest and lungs. Spencer’s Pulmonic Elixir 
may be had of all the principal druggists and medicine vendors throughout 
the world, in bottles at rs 14d. and as. od. each. 
