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found in the list of Wranglers on the exami- 

 nation for the degree of Bachelor of Arts,- at 

 Cambridge, in the year 1827.* Rarely indeed 

 can it occur that a single provincial town should 

 be able to contribute at one time, from the fami- 

 lies of its own merchants, such an accumulation 

 of talent as must have been required to place 



common method of solution, by showing that these problems may be natu- 

 rally arranged into two classes, the easier of which may be solved by a 

 process resembling that made use of in the Differential Calculus, for the 

 solution of the common problems of Maxima and Minima; and the other 

 and more difficult class, partly by the same process and partly by a sub- 

 sidiary process, which Mr. Cankrien has devised, for completing the former 

 process, when applied to the solution of the second class of problems. The 

 equations which are thus obtained are the same as those deduced by the 

 common method. 



* In paying tribute to the talents of those who have taken distin- 

 guished honors at Cambridge, it would not be justifiable wholly to omit the 

 name of a deceased native of this town, the late Rev. JOHN ESCREET, M. A. 

 Although this pious individual could scarcely be included in the above 

 enumeration of " Hull Authors," his literary acquirements will sanction 

 the following short notice respecting him, extracted from an interesting 

 Memoir of his Life, by the Rev. Thomas Webster, M. A., published in 

 12mo., in 1823. Mr. Escreet, who was born here on the 1st August, 

 1796, was placed, at the age of eight years, under the tuition of the Rev. 

 John Scott, then master of the Grammar School, and afterwards remained 

 under the care of that learned Divine, as a private pupil, until his removal 

 to Cambridge. He commenced his residence at Trinity College, in 1813, 

 and at the time of taking his degree, in January, 1818, his name was found 

 in the list of Wranglers. He proceeded M. A., in 1822, previously to 

 which time, he had become a member of the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society. On the 8th of March, 1823, when only in his 26th year, he 

 departed this life at Stisted, near Baintree, where he had officiated as 

 Curate from October, 1820, until the time of his death. Two of his 

 Sermons, one preached at St. Mary's, Hull, in October, 1822, and the 

 other written during his last illness, and never preached, are printed at 

 the close of the "Memoir," (pp. 107 and 121,) from which the foregoing 

 account is taken. 



