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(1) THIS, the fifth part published, contains a frontispiece photographic reproduction of a letter from Henry Briggs to John Pell. Dr. Thompson hopes to produce another part containing the logarithms of numbers from 10,000 to 20,000 some time this year.

(1)Logarithmetica Britannica: being a Standard Table of Logarithms to Twenty Decimal Places.

Part 6: Numbers 60,000 to 70,000. By Dr. Alexander John Thompson. Issued by the Biometric Laboratory, University of London, to commemorate the Tercentenary of Henry Briggs' publication of the Arithmetica Logarithmica, 1624. (Tracts for Computers, No. 18.) Pp. v + 100. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933.) 15s. net.

(2) Tables for the Development of the Disturbing Function: with Schedules for Harmonic Analysis.

By Ernest W. Brown Dirk Brouwer. Pp. v + 73–157. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933.) 10s. 6d. net.

(3) Vierstellige Tafeln der Kreis- und Hyper-belfunktionen, sowie ihrer Umkehrfunktionen im Komplexen.

Berechnet und erläutert von Robert Hawelka. Im Auftrag des Elektrotechnischen Vereins E.V. in Berlin, herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Fritz Emde. Pp. v + 109. (Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg und Sohn A.-G., 1931.) 10 gold marks.

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M.-T., L. Mathematics. Nature 133, 369–370 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133369d0

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