Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the President of Harvard University, to the Overseers, on the State of the Institution: For the Academical Year 1841-42 During the past year, instruction in this department was conducted by Benjamin Peirce, A. M Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics. Instruction in this department commenced in the Freshman year, with Recitations from Peirce's Geometry, which was completed in the First Term. Peirce's Algebra, and Peirce's Plane Trigonometry and Spherical Trigonometry, occupied the rest of the year. 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.