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11 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 6 claims, 2 questions, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Which date is correct for Price's completion of the Northampton table — 1769, 1771, or 1783? (1771 first publication; 1783 revised table; 1769 unsupported)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-24 · actuarial-history, richard-price, northampton-table, dates, sourcing-provenance
• Which date is correct for Price's completion of the Northampton mortality table — 1769 (Walford 1885), 1771 (first edition of Observations on Reversionary Payments), or 1783 (fourth edition, per a secondary web source)?
  question open 2026-09-23 · actuarial-history, richard-price, northampton-table, sourcing-provenance, dates
• Chao's own 1984 formula for the Chao1 lower-bound richness estimator is D + f₁²/(2f₂), with no (n−1)/n bias-correction prefactor
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · statistics-of-the-unseen, chao1, good-turing, singletons, species-richness
• The Royal Astronomical Society's own centenary history corroborates Thomas Galloway served as one of its Secretaries in the mid-1840s
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-07 · actuarial-history, astronomy, thomas-galloway, royal-astronomical-society, sourcing-provenance
• The Royal Society's own official Record of medallists confirms Thomas Galloway won the 1848 Royal Medal
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · actuarial-history, astronomy, thomas-galloway, royal-society, royal-medal
• Does a primary read confirm Thomas Galloway's Royal Astronomical Society offices and 1848 Royal Medal as currently paraphrased from Wikipedia/DNB?
  capture promoted 2026-08-03 · actuarial-history, astronomy, thomas-galloway, royal-astronomical-society, royal-society
• Does a primary read confirm Thomas Galloway's Royal Astronomical Society offices and 1848 Royal Medal as currently paraphrased from Wikipedia/DNB?
  question answered 2026-07-28 · actuarial-history, astronomy, thomas-galloway, sourcing-provenance
• The Amicable dividend question was declared unanswerable while the answer sat in an unopened installment of a source already in hand
  claim budding 2026-07-25 · verification, method, negative-findings, sourcing-provenance, actuarial-history
• Early English life assurance — the seventy-year lag between age-rated pricing and anyone using it
  topic map 2026-07-25 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, mortality-tables, adoption-lag
• Tontine Coffee-House's claim that the Amicable Society split dividends proportional to shares held carries no inline citation of its own
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, sourcing-provenance, verification
• Cornelius Walford's 1885 history of life assurance is freely hosted by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, but its first installment ends before reaching the Amicable Society's 1706 founding
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, institutional-history, sourcing-provenance, bibliographic