The British Marshalate, 1805–1855

british encroachments in seistan

seistan was one of the important ancient urban centres in south eastern persia. the ruins of the city show the prosperity and fertility of this city to the extent that a british civil officer considered it as the ancient london of asia. this article attempts to describe the enormous latent wealth of this ancient city which made it important for strategic, political and commercial reasons. due t...

The British Joitrnal

The British Russian Option

Following the economic rationale of [10] and [11] we present a new class of lookback options (by first studying the canonical ‘Russian’ variant) where the holder enjoys the early exercise feature of American options whereupon his payoff (deliverable immediately) is the ‘best prediction’ of the European payoff under the hypothesis that the true drift of the stock price equals a contract drift. I...

The British Pharmacopœia

The General Medical Council resembles nothing so much as a female elephant confined in a menagerie. Its size is great, and its separate members individually imposing ; its maintenance is highly expensive, and its rapacity large ; its feeble acts ludicrously disproportionate to its capability, and its fecundity extraordinarily low! At length, after some years of gestation and a lingering labour,...

The British Medical Association

Oxford on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th of July. The attraction of this famous and picturesque seat of learning, combined with the active preparations which are being made to give its members a heart}' welcome, will ensure for the Association a very successful gathering. No mistake has been made on this occasion regarding the tropical section which has already issued a programme of its proceedi...