Item 27/1 - Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister

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Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/27/1

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GB 275 Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/27/1

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Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister

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  • 24 Aug. 1896 (Creation)

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Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee (1848-1928) mathematician
(1848-1928)

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Glaisher entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1867, graduating M.A. 1874. He was Fellow of Trinity College, 1871-1928; Tutor, 1883-1893; Lecturer in Mathematics, 1871-1901. In 1875, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. President of the London Mathematical Society, 1884-1886; President of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1886-1889, 1901-1903. Editor of the 'Quarterly Journal of Mathematics'.

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Has sent off MS of memoir [for the Collected Papers] to the University Press.

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