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of peice we have been for althoat ‘fort rty yenrl, ehiedFad onward and en nea 
aged by the favor and approbation of these em “ven! he n. 
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feelings; and we trust we do en: ee the nh a of the occasion, while 
a the memories of m mhom ave been proud to call our early and 
New Haven, Dec. 23, i 
ap BiBLioGRAPHY. 
volt Tables of Logarithms of asset % and of Logarithmic Sines, 
Shsigents and Secants to seven p wet, Decimals, together with other 
Tables of frequent use in the ae of Mathematics and in practical 
calculations; by Anrnony D. Sraney wy M., Professor of Mathe- 
matics in Yale College. New Haven: Durrie & Peck. 1847. 8vo, 
PP 394. nd, ' 
The logarithmic tables which have been published in this country, 
hava been for the most part exceedingly meagre. They generally om 
the logarithms of numbers only to 10,000, and sines and tangents to 
single minutes. They extend only to five or six decimal places; or if 
they give seven places, since they do not weitge the Asn shes parts 
corresponding to the differences of the tabular numbers, very little ad- 
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desic computations. So notorious is this fact, thet nie a ticians so ve 
by common consent looked to foreign countries for the tables requisite 
in their computations. There was then a demand for such a book as 
Prof. Stanley proposed to furnish. Let us _— how well he has ac- 
quitted himself of the task he has 
rs We are struck by the first , eee at his otk, with the fairness of the 
aper neatness of the type. The type is indeed somewhat 
‘zcomp aaa, Vol. V, No. 13.—Jan., 1848. 
