VI PREFACE. 



to which they relate. These are few in number, and I hope 

 will be found not altogether superfluous. 



This collection will be found to be unusually copious in 

 problems in the earlier subjects, by which I designed to 

 make it useful to mathematical students, not only in the 

 Universities, but in the higher classes of public schools. 



I have to express my best thanks to Mr K. Morton, 

 Fellow of Christ's College, for his great kindness in reading 

 over the proof sheets of this work, and correcting such errors 

 as were thereby discoverable. 



JOSEPH WOLSTENHOLME. 



WASTDALE HEAD, July 31. 



