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The paper is split into five sections: '"Cataloguing" by means of boundaries', 'Collations in the catalogue', '"Ordinary" catalogues', '"Polynomial" catalogues' and 'Numerical catalogues'.

Includes table of contents.

Subject: Mathematics

Received and read 16 June 1904. Communicated by Major [Percy Alexander] MacMahon.

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AP/76/3
Earliest possible date
30 May 1904
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
195 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Unpublished paper, 'A memoir on the theory of order as defined by boundaries' by Edward J Dixon, 30 May 1904, AP/76/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_76_3/unpublished-paper-a-memoir-on-the-theory-of-order-as-defined-by-boundaries-by-edward-j-dixon, accessed on 24 May 2025

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