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vol. I, were authoritative when published. See also Fettweis (1923), Gadd (1922), Karpinski (1917, 1926), Loeffler (1912), Meissner (1925), Ungnad (1916), Vetter (1926), and Weidner (1916).

1907

Rudio, R., editor and translator, Der Bericht des Simplicius iiber die Quadraturen des Antiphon und des Hippokrates, Leipzig, 1907.

"Die Kreisquadratur bei den Ägyptern," pp. 85-87.

Simon, M., "Zur altägyptischen Bruchrechnung," Archiv der Mathematik und Physik, series 3, vol. 12, 1907, p. 377.

1908

Günther, S., Geschichte der Mathetnatik, I. Teil, Von den ältesten Zeiten bis Carlesius, Leipzig, 1908, pp. 24-35.

Descriptive and critical.

Ruska, J. "Das ägyptische Zeichen für die Quadratwurzel," Mitteilungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, vol. 7, 1908, pp. 337-338.

1909

Bobynin, V. V., "Drevne egipetskaya matematika v epokhu vladui chestva giksov" [The old Egyptian mathematics during the reign of the Hyksos kings], Zhurnal Ministerstva Narodnago Prosvycshcheniya[, St. Petersburg, October 1909, part 2, pp. 290-328; November, part 2, pp. 1-50.

In so far as this relates to the Rhind papyrus Bobynin makes a new study of the work [compare Bobynin (1882, 1905)] and comes to the conclusion that "it is a collection of known results in arithmetic and practical geometry, containing the germ of all mathematical literature which later sprang up. It is a book of reference of theoretical and practical mathematics for farmers, surveyors, and architects, a text-book, and finally a work for the needs of the investigator himself, dealing with questions not yet solved." (Jahrbuch über die Fortschritle der Mathetnatik.)

Griffith, F. L., Catalogue of the Demotic Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, vol. 3, 1909, quarto.

"Numerals," pages 415-418. "The chief sources for numerals in these papyri, apart from the dates, are the dowries, collected together on pp. 269-271, and the account papyrus No. XL, transcribed on pp. 292-6." Reference may also