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are coincident. I have great difficulty in reading the german 

 handwriting, and if not troublesome to you I would ask you to 

 employ ours. Hoping to hear form yon again soon I remain, 



dear Sir 



yours very sincerely 



Ä. Cayley. 



2 Stone Buildings 



London W. C. 



20. Okt. 1862. 



Cayley an Schläfli. 



Dear Sir, 



I ought to have written some time ago to teil you that 

 the memoir on Cubic surfaces has been accepted for publication 

 by the Council of the Royal Society — I cannot exactly say 

 how soon it will be printed, but it will certainly be so before 

 long — and also to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 

 informing me of the death of Prof. Steiner. We had in fact 

 abready heard of it here that we were just to late in our 

 election of hini as a foreign member of the Royal Society.^ ^) It 

 is indead a great loss to mathematical science. I had not the 

 advantage of a personal acquaintance with hin. 



I will let you know when I receive the proof sheets of 



your memoir and in the meantime remain, dear Sir, yours very 



sincerely 



A. Cayley. 



London 2 Stone Buildings W. C. 



4. May 1863. 



A 



^') Hieraus geht hervor, dass Jakoh Steiner bei seinem Tode (1. April 

 1863) just auf dem Punkte war, auswärtiges Mitglied der Royal Society 

 zu werden. 



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