...repeated in long-continued succession. This important discovery was explained by Mr Babbage, in a short paper read before the Royal Society, and published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1826.* It is to us more a matter of regret than surprise, that the subject did not receive from...

...these formulae to certain existing tables. (3) A criticism of certain actuaries and societies. His paper, read before the Royal Society and published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1826, is a complicated formula to express in mathematical form what would now be called the 'curve...