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I. IT is with the greatest pleasure that I avail myself this evening of the already well-established custom which permits one of our members, once in two years, to address to his colleagues a few general remarks connected with the science that forms our common bond of union. It is not often that a mathematician has an opportunity of laying before his fellow workers, by word of mouth, any views of his except such as relate to the actual mathematical investigations upon which he is engaged, which, from their very nature, can appeal directly only to the few who have laboured in the same field; and I feel it to be a high privilege to be permitted, in this room, and surrounded by familiar faces, to give expression to my thoughts and hopes upon subjects that are of common interest to us all as mathematicians.
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"The Origin and History of the Mathematical Tripos," Cambridge, 1880. (Reprinted from the Cambridge Review.)
Wordsworth (pp. 47 et seg.) See also the letters of Gooch, who was second wrangler in 1771 (p. 322.)
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The Mathematical Tripos 1 . Nature 35, 101–106 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035101d0
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