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Letter from Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Tables of the numerical values of the sine-integral, cosine-integral, and exponential-integral' by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/7/30

Date: 31 March 1870

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Letter apologising for not being able to review the paper. He has undertaken more than he is able to perform.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1870].

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RR/7/30
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31 March 1870
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Archibald Smith

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Archibald Smith, Letter from Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Tables of the numerical values of the sine-integral, cosine-integral, and exponential-integral' by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 31 March 1870, RR/7/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_30/letter-from-archibald-smith-on-a-paper-tables-of-the-numerical-values-of-the-sine-integral-cosine-integral-and-exponential-integral-by-james-whitbread-lee-glaisher-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 20 May 2026

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