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entine Republic, Boccaccio had but small sympathy with the majority of the 

 crowned heroes and heroines of his book; and that as the author of this 

 learned didactic treatise, with its fierce invective and biting sarcasm, he was 

 a very different man from the earlier Boccaccio of the graceful introductions 

 to the tales of the Decameron. 



The Fall of Princes is thus of considerable literary, historical, and biblio- 

 graphical interest; nevertheless the chief value of the work to present-day 

 scholars lies in its being the most important document of fifteenth century 

 English of which there is still no modern critical edition. It was last printed 

 in 1558. 



Sommer, H. Oskar, Astolat, Camberley, Surrey, England. Grant No. 817, 



allotted June 12, 191 2. Completion for publication of researches on 



Arthurian Romances. (For previous reports see Year Books Nos. 



5-10.) $2,000 



The following work remains to be done : 



( 1 ) Remainder of final revise of volume vi. 



(2) Remainder of second revise of vol. vii^ about two-thirds of volume. 



(3) Final revise of the whole of volume vii. 



(4) Remainder of first revise of volume vii. 



(5) The Index raisonne to the seven volumes. 



MATHEMATICS. 



Dickson, L. E., University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Grant No. 809, 

 allotted March 21, 1912. Completion of a Historical Report on the 

 Theory of Numbers. $500 



In the order named, Professor Dickson worked in the libraries of Cam- 

 bridge University, Trinity College, Cambridge Philosophical Society, British 

 Museum, Royal Society of London, Bibliotheque Nationale, Universite de 

 Paris, St. Genevieve, Institut de France, Gottingen Universitat, and Koni- 

 gliche Bibliothek of Berlin. 



Lehmer, D. N., University of California, Berkeley, California. Grant No. 

 807, allotted March 21, 1912. Assistance in reading proof of his "Tables 

 giving a Complete List of Prime Numbers between the limits i and 

 10,006.721." $300 



The proof-reading on the List of Primes proceeds very satisfactorily. 

 Eighty pages have already been read twice and the "inattention constant" 

 of the author and of his assistant seems sufficiently small to make two more 

 readings amply sufficient. As the reading goes now, there will be less than 

 I chance in 200 that there will be a single error remaining undetected after 

 four readings. 



