List of Writings on Determinants. 157 



9. It will readily be understood that the preparation of ihe list 

 has involved much labour to others beside myself, and that a con- 

 siderable share of this is due to the fact of my distance from the 

 ^^reat libraries of Europe. About one hundred and eighty of the 

 title-slips cost more worry to check and complete than all the rest 

 put together, and some of them made the journey to and from 

 Europe several times before they could be filed as satisfactory.! 

 In recalling this it gives me pleasure to say that in almost no case 

 did I apply to strangers for assistance without receiving at least a 

 svmpathetic answer. Such kindnesses I ha\e already tried to 

 acknowledge in some way or other ; but to most of those who rendered 

 them the appearance of the list in print will. I feel sure, be the best 

 form of reward. 



THE THIRD LIST (1748-1900). 



1748. Fontaine [des PjERtins, A.] Memoires donnees a TAcad- 

 emie des Sciences, non imprimes dans leur temps, 

 (p. 94.) 588 pp. Paris. 1764. 



1770. Vandermonde. Memoire sur la resolution des equations. 

 Man. dc TAcad. des Sciences, Annee 1771. p. 369. 



1773. Lagrange, J. L. Recherches d'arithmetique. Noiiv. Mem. 



de TAcad. Roy Berlin, Ann. 1773. (pp. 265-312.) 



p. 285. 



1795. Prony [R.]. Lecons d'analyse. Considerations sur les 



principes de la methode inverse des differences. 



Journ. de I'Ecole Polyi. I. (pp. 211-273.) pp. 264. 265. 

 1809. MoNGE [G.]. Essai d'application de I'analyse a quelques 



parties de la geometric elementaire. Joiini. de 



VKcole Polyi. VIIL, pp. 107-109. 

 1809. HiRSCH. M. Sammlung von Aufgaben aus der Theorie der 



algebraischen Gleichungen. pp. T03-107. Berlin. 



581 1. Prasse, M. de. Commentationes Mathematicae. vii. De- 



monstratio eliminationis Cramerianae. pp. 89-102. 



Lipsiae. 1804- 181 2. 



i8ii. BiNET. J. P. M. Memoire sur la theorie des axes conjugues 

 et des momens dinertie des corps. Jouni. dc 



I'Ecole Polvi. IX. (pp. 41-67.) pp. 45-46. 



i8ii. BiNET. J. P. M. Sur quelques formules d'algebre. et sur 

 leur application a des expressions qui ont rapport aux 

 axes conjugues des corps. Xoiiv. Bull, des .Sci. 



par la Soc. Philomaiique, II.. pp. 389-392. 



18 1 2. Wronski. H. Refutation de la Theorie des Fonctions 

 Analytiques de Lagrange, pp. 14, 15. ..., 132, 133. 



Paris. 



fOne of the most willin^f and capable helpers, Mr. John Hardie, librarian of 

 Ihe Edinburgh Royal Society, has my special thanks. 



