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23 Sept. 1807
Alarm
Sir
Though the publications of the Royal
Society have ever been
unimpartially appropriated to the reception of
such facts and disquisitions as belong appertain
exclusively to the physical department of science division in the field of human
knowledge, yet where the aid of calculation is called in employ'd,
subjects disquisitions which otherwise would
seem to belong come exclusively to the department
ethical or logical branch, have
on several occasions have been thought seemed
foreign to the alteration of the
not always, been excluded from the honour
of a reception an admission among the papers to
which the stamp of its authority is communicated.
Not to mention the papers presented
by Sir William Petty and others on the
subject of Political Arithmetic — the facts
and disquisitions of D Halley in relation to the subject
of the duration of human life the mathematical
papers fon furnished by Priceseveral other hands
on the subject of Annuities, I will take the
liberty of making a more particular mention of
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