Excerpt from Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Vol. 21: Session, 1902-1903 I Received your letter of the with the Answer to the Problem enclosed. I had seen the Problem about 2 weeks ago in the Magazine, and answered it upon the reading of it, without putting pen to paper, which was owing to my having long before this had the Loci, to which this is easily reduced. Your Lemma I demonstrated, but have not considered how it is to be applied, And indeed I could not so much as get time to write you this by monday's post, as I had fully designed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.