A Memoir on the Theory of Matrices (Cayley, pp. 17-46) + The Bakerian Lecture: On the stratifications and dark band in electrical discharges as observed in Torricellian vacua (Gassiot, pp.1-16) + Description of the Skull and Teeth of the Placodus Laticeps, Owen, with Indications of Other New Species of Placodus, and Evidence of the Saurian Nature of That Genus (Owen, pp. 169-184) with On the Megatherium (Megatherium americanum, cuvier and blumenbach). Part IV. —Bones of the anterior extremities (Owen, pp. 261-279) in Philosophical Transactions 148, 1858, Full Volume Parts I & II [INCLUDING MANY MORE PAPERS]
London: Royal Society, 1858. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME INCLUSIVE OF MANY IMPORTANT PAPERS & 71 PLATES. Included are Cayley’s paper on matrices marks “an epoch in the development of the subject” (Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, 476). Gassiot’s paper “was particularly important..... More