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THE University of Sydney has recently issued (for oA- private circulation) several volumes of reprints of papers by members of its staff and by its research students during the period 1909-16. It is clear that the University is doing its duty in contributing to scientific progress, and in training its best students in the methods of research. Thus in vol. A we have a list of upwards of sixty papers (twenty of which are included in this volume) ranging over the subjects of mathematics, physics, chemistry, agriculture, and engineering; and although, of course, they are of unequal value in the eyes of an expert, they are all concerned with genuine scientific problems, the solution of which means something more than a mere class exercise. One paper is of an exceptional kind, as dealing with a chapter of mathematical history. This is Prof. H. S. Carslaw's Napier commemorative lecture, which gives a clear and interesting account of what Napier's logarithms were (even yet this is often wrongly stated), and of the way in which they were calculated. The other papers are technical, and we must content ourselves with noting those in the complete list which obviously deal with specially Australian matters. These are: (i) Two papers on superannuation and pension funds;; (2) one on the teaching of mathematics in Australia; (3) one on Australian coalfields and collieries; (4) one on the Hargreaves goldfield, N.S.W. None of these, however, appear in this volume, probably because the stock has been exhausted.
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Research Papers from the University of Sydney. Nature 100, 254 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100254a0
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