ny, 
98 Professor Wallace in Reply to the Remarks of B. 
Ant. vO gee ee ota Wallace, in reply to the Remarks 
of B. upon hus paper on Algebraic Series, contained in 
ol, Tl. of this San page 278. 
Columbia, S. C. Sept. 10, 1824. 
Mr. Epiror. = 
Your correspondent Mr. B. in Art. XI. of your Journal 
for May 1824 has, it appears, made some profound discov- 
eries relative to a communication of mine, inserted in the 
Journal for Feb. 1824. Permit me to rectify some of Mr. 
B’s. mistakes, and place the subject in its Proper light. I 
am very unwilling to subject Mr. B. to the imputation of 
mala fides, or of a want of knowledge ; and I am still more 
unwilling to revive, in any degree, the pelea pica) of 
ancient writers who scarcely communicated wit oth- 
er, except in the way of attack or reproach, nd in a man- 
ner too little creditable to their candour or Meas 
servations ont 
‘the Journal* and the one aiich 
If Mr. B. however had read 
spain he would find p. 285 of 
the Journal, that the series in question, were given by M. 
De Staimville of the Poly ceckual School, in Vol. 1X. of the 
Annales de Mathématiques for 1818 and 1819, by Gergonne, 
and therefore not mine. nis Mr. B’s, candour ? 
the results produced by their imalliplicatin, as Stainville 
es shown, that is interesting. For this simple operation 
4 As the Editor was, on account of ill health, absent at the Springs of 
Ballston, when Professor W allace’s: communication was printed, he neces- 
sarily shige papers for the Journal in the hands of another perso 
own pieres, aud then they will incur no risk of having their views m 
prehended. That Professor - allace may have no cause for complaint, in 
a! saeatiee, not a word of his MS. has been suppressed or a shecal, 
although there are a few expressions which we could have wished ha 
been pc ve i or modified, Editor 
