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of having thoroughly discussed, by methods which owe in 
one case little and in the other nothing to previous writers, 
the whole of those two extensive theories, on each of which 
the Academy, in its proposals of 1858, desired to obtain 
partial information. 
Croft Rectory, near Warrington, 
July 1 , 1863 . 
P.S. — It is necessary to add, in reference to Mr. Ekman’s 
letter named at page 133, that while these pages were 
passing through the press, that gentleman has been cour- 
teously informed of the decision of the Committee {vide 
p. 134), to the effect that, as the competition on the prize 
question of 1860 has been closed, the Academy cannot 
award any medal for any further discussion of this subject. 
