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IT is now two years and seven days since a message by the Atlantic cable Containing the single word “elected” reached me in Baltimore informing me that I had been appointed Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford, so that for three weeks I was in the unique position of filling the post and drawing the pay of Professor of Mathematics in each of two Universities: one, the oldest and most renowned, the other—an infant Hercules—the most active and prolific in the world, and which realises what only existed as a dream in the mind of Bacon—the House of Solomon in the New Atlantis.
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On the Method of Reciprocants as Containing an Exhaustive Theory of the Singularities of Curves 1 . Nature 33, 222–231 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033222g0
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