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Insurance against Rain

Nature volume 86, page 179 (1911)Cite this article

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As this scheme of insurance is one of the few of which data can be obtained by “the man in the street” from which the odds in favour of the underwriters can be calculated, I went to the trouble of investigating the matter. Possibly the results may interest your readers.

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