Mr. Morgan on Survivorships. 45 



greater satisfaction in closing my inquiries on this subject. For, 

 in regard to contingencies depending on four or more lives, the 

 cases are not only much too numerous and intricate to admit of 

 a solution, but they occur so seldom in practice, as to render 

 the entire investigation of them, were it even possible, a matter 

 of little or no importance. 



In my last Paper, printed in the Phil. Trans, for the year 1794, page 257, last 



line but one, 



, BC-B'C fti.r-i.V-BC* , , , , . , 



tor — , read ■ ■ • , ; ; whence the general rule in the 



2 r 2 b c r 2 =+» 



following page becomes — S into — — x V— 3C— -ABC -1 -— x 



or 2 zr 2 b 



AF-AFC «. HFC « 2 . HB -HBC TT „ s 



+ + X + HC + 7 XNB-NBC + 



3 3 a 2a 3 bar T 



b zbr 3 T T b cr K +i 



pk.r—i . V—BO 

 zbcr*-j-i 



