144 PROFESSOR KELLAND ON THE THEORY OF WAVES. 



as examples than as attempts to produce the complete solution of the problem. 

 Hitherto our endeavours to deduce a relation between the depth of the fluid and 

 the length of the wave have been unavailing, principally (as I think) from the 

 difficulty attendant on summing slowly converging series. I trust what has been 

 done will serve to introduce the subject to mathematicians of this country, who 

 do not appear as yet to have taken a very lively interest in the theory, zealous as 

 they are in prosecuting the experimental study of fluid motion. 



