186 Mansfield Merri man — List of Writlags relating 



1841 QuETELET. Ueber das Gesetz des Quadrats der Tempera- 

 tureii. Bull. Akad. Munchen for 1841, col. 261-263. 



1842 Fries. Versiich einer Kritik der Principien der WaJirschein- 

 liehkeitsrechrnvng. Braunschweig, 8vo. 



1842 Geunert. ' Ueber CAUCHT'sInterpolationsmethode.' Archiv. 

 Math. II. Fhys., Vol. II, pp. 41-60. 

 See 1835 Cauchy. 



1842 LiTTROw. 'Theorie der kleinsten Quadrate.' Gehler''s Physi- 

 calisches Worterbuch, Vol. X, Pt. II, Art. ' Wahrscheinlichkeitsrech- 

 nung,' pp. 1200-12,^1. 



A clear elementary exposition of the Method and its theory ac- 

 cording to 1832 Encke. 



1842 LoBATSCHEWsKY. ' Probabilitc des n'sultats moyens tires 

 d'observations repetees.' (Jrelle''s Jour. Math..^ Vol. XXIV, pp. 

 164-170. 



Serial expressions are dediiced for the probability of error in the 

 mean of a limited number of observations. 



1842 Merz. De tlieoria pfohahiUtatis adhihita in p)hysicatn. 

 Monachii. 



1842 Puissant. ' Traite de g'eod'esie, on exposition, des methodes 

 trigonometriques et astronomiques, applicables d la mesure de la, terre, 

 et d la construction du canevas des cartes topographiques.'' Paris, 2 

 vols, 4to, Vol. I, pp. xvi, 515, and XI pi. Vol. II, pp. xi, 496, xxxii, 

 and III pi. — First edition, see 1805. 



The results of many of Puissant's previous memoirs are here re- 

 corded, and the Method of Least Squares is often used. The work is 

 one of the most valuable treatises on Geodesy extant. 



1842 Ramus. ' Sur une question de probabilite relative aux cor- 

 rections des hauteurs barometriques.' Crelle''s Jour. Math., Vol. 

 XXIV, pp. 80-84. 



A determination of the probability " que dans un grand nombre 

 d'observations la ditference des resultats moyens des hauteurs baro- 

 metriques observees et reduites soit comprise dans I'intrevalle A." 



1842 Rober. Experiment. Art. in Ila/uhoOrterbuch Chemie u. 

 Phys. (Berlin, 8vo.) 



See Archiv. Math. u. Phys., Vol. XI, p. 375. 



