Jan 5/1836
Dear Sir,
I will with pleasure read over your work <1> if you will send it to me, but I shall not have time to study it so carefully as I should wish.
As regards the question before the Royal Society <2> I hope you will refer to the discoveries of Abel & Jacobi <3> with respect to definite integrals if those investigations lead to similar results.
I am, dear Sir, Yours faithfully
J W Lubbock
H. F Talbot Esqr
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. WHFT, ‘Researches in the Integral Calculus, Part One’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. 126 part 1, 1836, pp. 177–215.
2. Royal Society of London.
3. Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), mathematician, and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851).
4. WHFT’s paper ‘On the rectification of parabolic curves’ first appears in the minutes of the Royal Society Committee of Papers 3 July 1834, where it was referred. The paper is listed as ‘postponed’ in the minutes of every meeting from that date until 7 January 1836. The minutes indicate the paper was withdrawn on 28 January 1836.