794 MPOBIV OV aPBCIAL BRANCHES OF SCIENCE. 



the methodic*! arrangement, there is much original light thrown 

 oa Uw MM of memoir* diacumed in it. It will be many years before the 

 valoe of thk report will be superseded by treatises. 



The Report of the Committee on Mathematical Tables deals with a subject 

 which, though not to abstruse, is larger and drier than any of the preceding. 

 It . however, a most interesting as well as valuable report, and supplies in- 

 wfaieh would never have been printed unless the British Association 

 for the Report, and which never would have been obtained if the 

 of the report had not been available. 

 There are eevernl other reports which are not mere reports, but rather 

 original paper* preceded by a historical sketch of the subject. No special en- 

 M needed to get people to write reports of this kind. 



