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(The names of important banks will be found under the dis-
tinctive part of the name rather than under the title "Bank.")
Abyssinia, Bank of, 537
Accommodation bills employed
in Scotland, 612
Africa, banking in, 535
Africa, Bank of, 550
African Banking Corporation,
550
Alabama, experiments with
State banking, 380-82
Aldrich, Nelson W., proposes
note issues on municipal and
railway bonds, 441; made
chairman of Monetary Com-
mission, 446
Algeciras, Conference_of, pro-
vides for State Bank of
Morocco, 541
Algeria, Bank of, creation, 539;
difficulties with loans upon
real estate, 539; revision of
charter, 540
America, Trust Company of,
sustains severe run in 1907,
713
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Argentarius, functions of, at
Rome, 4
Argentine Republic, early issues
of paper in, 507; breakdown
of the bond-secured system
of note issue, 508; plan for
restoring stable exchange,
510; operation of the Conver-
sion Office, 511; speculation
in, before 1890, 663
Arnauné, Auguste, prepares re-
port on exchange in Indo-
China, 608
Arts, demand for gold in, 703
Assets, in Mexico, left in custody
of the banks, 483; proposed
as basis of note issues in
Indianapolis plan, 431
Assignats, issue and abandon-
ment in France, 43; first is-
sues in Russia, 252
Assyria, employment of clay
tablets in, 2
Asti, bankers of, lend to Louis
IX, 7
Athens, early banking in, 2
Atkinson, Edward, opinion that
certificates of deposit are
not subject to federal tax,
Australasia, Bank of, 548
Australia, banking system of,
543; expansion of loans on
landed security, 545; with-
drawal of British deposits,
546; statistical progress, 547;
effect of withdrawal of
British deposits in 1890, 666;
Austria, National Bank of,
foundation, 224; effect of
specie suspension, 226; at-
tempt to resume, 228; regula-
tions governing circulation,
230; converted into Austro-
Hungarian Bank, 233; loans
on securities in 1873, 657
Austro-Hungarian Bank, suc-
ceeds National Bank of Aus-
tria, 233; rules governing
circulation, 234; required to
establish gold payments, 237;
adopts new monetary unit,
240; control of exchange oper-
ations, 241; gold and silver
holdings, 243; influence of five
per cent. tax on circulation,
244; variations of discount
rate, 246-47; character of
paper discounted, 247; divi-
sion of business between Aus-
tria and Hungary, 248; taxa-
tion, 249; commission
separation of Austrian and
Hungarian branches, 249
Ayr Bank, based upon landed
security, 146; failure of, 148
Bahamas, banking in, 532
Baltimore plan for currency re-
form, 426
Bank, origin of the word, 8
Bank Act of 1844, approved by
Sir Robert Peel, 120; purpose
of the limit on authorized
circulation, 121; operation of
the Act in 1847, 124; failure
to contract circulation, 126;
effect upon use of credit in-
struments, 128; intensifies
crisis of 1847, 632; beneficial
effects of suspension of, 634;
suspension of 1857, 641; sus-
pension in 1866, 649-51; pro-
posed suspension in 1890, 664
Banking, evolution of modern
forms, 16; origin of, in Italy,
17; defects of American sys-
tem revealed in panic of 1907,
707
Banking currency, recom-
mended by Indianapolis Mon-
etary Commission, 431; not
materially affected by Act of
1900, 432; plan of New York
Chamber of Commerce for,
440; provided for by Fowler
bill, 443; development of, in
Canada, 448
Bank money, used by Bank of
Hamburg, 199; by Bank of
Amsterdam, 287
Bank-notes, advantages over
coin in Scotland, 161; pre-
ferred to coin in bank failures,
169; promote banking in
Prussia, 188; connection with
crisis of 1810, 615
Banque du Peuple, of Montreal,
foundation, 452; failure of,
469
Barbados, currency and bank-
ing in, 531
Baring Brothers & Company,
assist Bank of England in
1839, 630; buy French se-
curities in 1847, 635; invest-
ments in Argentine Republic,
662; failure in 1890, 664-66;
effect of failure in United
States, 668
Bavaria, provision for new bank,
207
Belgium, foundation of Société
Générale, 277; failure of bank-
ing on landed security, 278;
National Bank of, 279; bank-
ing experience in Franco-
Prussian War, 280; proposes
Latin Union, 281; losses in
Russian enterprises, 705.
Belgium, National Bank of,
charter in 1850, 278; difficult
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