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CXIV. A Letter to the Reverend William 
Brakenridge, D D. Retfor of St. Mich. 
Baflifhaw, and F. R. S. with a Table of 
the V alue of Annuities on Lives , by Mr. 
James Dodfon, Mafter of the Royal Ma- 
thematical School in ChriftVHofbitalj and 
F. R. S . 
Reverend Sir, 
- A S X have made a great many calcu- 
lations, relative to Annuities on 
Read Dec. 16. 
1756. 
Lives, and have otherwife contributed, as much as 
was in my Power, to facilitate the performance of 
fuch, I thought it, almod, a duty incumbent on me, 
to compute the values of them according to your 
curious Table of the Decrements of Life, inferted in 
the Philofophical Tranfadtions ; accordingly X have 
inclofed a table of them, and if you find it will 
bear examination I dcfire you to communicate it to 
the Royal Society, in order (if approved of) to its 
being inferted, as an appendix to your letter to the 
Preddent. I am, 
Reverend Sir, 
Your mod; obedient and 
mod humble Servant, 
Chrift’s-Hofpltal, 
Dec. 8, 1756. James Dodfon* 
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