ions between a circle
and other Geometrical figures? Answered by a member of the British
Association ... London, 1860, 8vo.--[This has been translated into
French by M. Armand Grange, Bordeaux, 1863, 8vo.]

The Quadrature of the Circle. Correspondence between an eminent
mathematician and James Smith, Esq. (Member of the Mersey Docks and
Harbour Board), London, 1861, 8vo. (pp. 200).

Letter to the ... British Association ... by James Smith, Esq.
Liverpool, 1861, 8vo.

Letter to the ... British Association ... by James Smith, Esq.
Liverpool, 1862, 8vo.--[These letters the author promised to continue.]

A Nut to crack for the readers of Professor De Morgan's 'Budget of
Paradoxes.' By James Smith, Esq. Liverpool, 1863, 8vo.

Paper read at the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society,
reported in the Liverpool Daily Courier, Jan. 26, 1864. Reprinted as a
pamphlet.

The Quadrature of the circle, or the true ratio between the diameter
and circumference geometrically and mathematically demonstrated. By
James Smith, Esq. Liverpool, 1865, 8vo.

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[On the relations between the dimensions and distances of the Sun,
Moon, and Earth; a paper read before the Literary and Philosophical
Society of Liverpool, Jan. 25, 1864. By James Smith, Esq.

The British Association in Jeopardy, and Dr. Whewell, the Master of
Trinity, in the stocks without hope of escape. Printed for the authors
(J. S. confessed, and also hidden under _Nauticus_). (No date, 1865).

The British Association in Jeopardy, and Professor De Morgan in the
Pillory without hope of escape. London, 1866, 8vo.]

When my work appeared in numbers, I had not anything like an adequate idea
of Mr. James Smith's superiority to the rest of the world in the points in
which he is superior. He is beyond a doubt the ablest head at unreasoning,
and the greatest hand at writing it, of all who have tried in our day to
attach their names to an error. Common cyclometers sink into puny orthodoxy
by his side.

The behavior of this singular character induces me to pay him the
compliment which Achilles paid Hector, to drag him round the walls again
and again. He was treated with unusual notice and in the most gentle
manner. The unnamed mathematician, E. M. bestowed a volume of mild
correspondence upon him; Rowan Hamilton[201] quietly proved him wrong in a
way accessible t