llso at intervals of a minute, from 88° to 100° (centesimal) to II places. A. M. Legendre, Traité des functions elliptiques (vol. ii. p. 256), gives the same function for every half degree (sexagesimal) of the quadrant to 12 places.

The Gamma Function.—Legendre's great table appeared in vol. ii. of his Exercices de calcul integral (1816), p. 85, and in vol. ii. of his Traité des functions elliptiques (1826), p. 489. Logw I'(x) is given from x= I to 2 at intervals of 'OOI to 12 places, with differences to the third order. This table is reprinted in full in O. Schlomilch, Analytische Studien (1848), p. 183; an abridgment in which the arguments differ by -01 is given by De Morgan, Dif. and Int. Calc., p. 587. The last figures of the values omitted are also su plied, so that the full table can be reproduced. A seven-place abridgment (without differences) is published in ]. Bertrand, Calcul intégral (1870), p. 285, and a six-figure abridgment in B. Williamson, Integral Calculus (1884), p. 169. In vol. i. of his Exercices (1811), Legendre had previously published a seven-place table of logw I'(x), without differences.

Tables connected with Elliptic Functions.-Legendre published elaborate tables of the elliptic integrals in vol. ii. of his Traité des functions elliptiques (1826). Denoting the modular angle by 0, the amplitude by ¢, the incomplete integral of the first and second kind by F(qS) and F, (4>), and the complete integrals by K and E, the tables are:-(1) log10E and l0gwK from 0 =0° to 90° at intervals of O°'I to 12 or 14 places, with differences to the third order; (2) E1(¢) and F(¢), the modular angle being 45°, from 4>=0° to 90° at intervals of 0°-5 to 12 places, with differences to the fifth order; (3) E1(45°) and F (45°) from 0=0° to 90° at intervals of 1°, with differences to the sixth order, also E and K for the same arguments, all to 12 places; (4) E1(¢) and F(4>) for every degree of both the amplitude and the argument to 9 or IO places. The first three tables had been published previously in vol. iii. of the Exercices de calcul intégral (1816).

Tables involving q.-P. F. Verhulst, T raité des functions elliptiques (Brussels, 1841), contains a table of l0g10(l0g1o)q" for argument 9 at intervals of 0°'I to 12 or 14 places. C. G. ]ac0bi, in Crelle's Journal, 26, p. 93, gives logm q from 0 =0° to 90 at intervals of 0°'I to 5 places. E. D. F. Meissel's Samrnlung mathematischer T afeln, i. (lserlohn, 1860), consists of a table of logw g at intervals of 1' from 0=o° to 90° to 8 places. Glaisher, in Month. Nat. R.A.S., 1877, 37, p. 372, gives logw q to IO places and g to 9 places for every degree. In l. Bertrand's Calcul Intégral (1870), a table of logw q from 9=0° to 90° at intervals of 5' to 5 places is accompanied by tables of logm / (2K/1r) and logw log", g'1 and by abridgments of Legendre's tables of the elliptic integrals. O. Schlomilch, Vorlesungen der hoheren Analysis (Brunswick, 1879), p. 448, gives a small table of logm q for every degree to 5 places.

Legendrian Coejicients (Zonal Harmonies):-The values of P"(x) for n=1, 2, 3, . . .7 from x=o to I at intervals of 'OI are given by Glaisher, in Brit. Ass. Rep., 1879, pp. 54-57. The functions tabulated are P'(x)=x. P'(x)=%(3x”-1). P“<x)=%(5x?-sx). P“(x)=%(35x's0x2+3>. P'<x> = %<63x'-70x°'+1sx>. P°<x> =1'.. (23128-315x'+105x” -5), P7(x) =r's(4Z9x7“693x5'l'315x3 35x)-The

values of P"(cos 0) for n=1, 2, .7 for 0=o°, 1°, 2°, . . .90° to 4 places are given by ]. Perry in the Proc. Phys. Soc., 1892, 11, p. 221, and in the Phil. Mag., 1891, ser. 6, 32, p. 512. The functions P" occur in connexion with the theory of interpolation, the attraction of spheroids, and other physical theories. Bessel's Functions.-F. W. Bessel's original table appeared at the end of his memoir, “ Untersuchung des planetarischen 'I'eils der Storungen, welche aus der' Bewegung der Sonne entstehen ” (in Abh. d. Berl. Akad. 1824; re rinted in vol. i. of his Abhandlungen, p. 84). It gives ]0(x) and ]1(iic) from x=o to 3-2 at intervals of '0I. More extensive tables were calculated by P. A. Hansen in “ Ermittelung der absolute Storungen in Ellipsen von beliebiger Excentricitat und Neigung " (in Schriften der Sternwarte Seeberg, part i., Gotha, 1843). They include an extension of Bessel's original table to x=2O, besides smaller tables of J, .(x) for certain values of n as far as n=28, all to 7 places. Hansen's table was reproduced b O. Schlomilch, in Zeitschr. fur Math., 2, p. 158, and by E. Lommeli Studien uber die Bessel'schen Functionen (Leipzig, 1868), p. 127. Hansen's notation is slightly different from Bessel's; the change amounts to halving each argument. Schlomilch gives the table in Hansen's form; Lommel expresses it in Bessel's. Lord Rayleigh's Theory of Sound (1894), 1, p. 321, gives ], ,(x) and J, (x) from x=o to x=I3-4 at intervals of O~I to 4 places, taken from Lommel. A large table of the same functions was given by E. D. F. Meissel in the Abh. d. Berlin A/cad. for 1888 (published also separately). It contains the values of ]0(x) and /'1(x) from x=o to x= 15-50 at intervals of -01. A. Lodge has calculated the values of the function I, ,(x) where

“ . x” x2 x4

I"('”) L ]"('x) '2“n! I +2(2n+2) +2»4.(2n-i-2) (2n-|-4)+' His tables give l, .(x) for n=o, 1, 2, ., II from x=o to x=6 at intervals of O°2 to II or 12 places (Brit. Ass. Rep., 1889, p. 29), I;(x) and I., (x) from x =0 to x=5-100 at intervals of -001 to 9 places (Id., 1893, p. 229, and 1896, p. 99), and of ], (x/i) from x=o to x=6 at intervals of 0-2 (Id., 1893, p. 228) to 9 places. In all the tables the last figure is uncertain. Subsidiary tables for the calculation of Bessel's functions are given by L. N. G. Filon and A. Lodge in Brit. Ass. Rep., 1907, p. 94. The work is being continued, the object being to obtain the values of ]n(x) for n=o, é, 1, 1§ , . . ., 6%. A table by E. Jahnke has been announced, which, besides tables of other mathematical functions, is to contain values of Bessel's functions of order é and roots of functions derived from Bessel's functions. Sine, Cosine, Exponential, and Logarithm Integrals.-The functions so named are the integrals z@iCdx, z§ fdx, x ofdx, o x, O x -, ,, , x

which are denoted by the functional signs Si x, Ci x, Ei x, li x respectively, so that Ei x =li ef. J. von Soldner, Théorie et tables d'une nouvelle fonction transcend ante (Munich, 1809), gave the values of li x from x=o to I at intervals of -1 to 7 places, and thence at various intervals to 1220 to 5 or more places. This table is reprinted in De Morgan's Dijf. and Int. Calc., p. 662. ' Bretschneider, in Grunert's Archiv, 3, p. 33, calculated Ei (=*=x), Six, Ci x for x= 1, 2, IO to 20 places, and subsequently (in Schl0milch's Zeitschrift, 6) worked out the values of the same functions from x=o to I at intervals of -01 and from I to 7-5 at intervals of -I to 10 places. Two tracts by L. Stenberg, Tabulae logarithm integral is (Malmo, part i. 1861 and part ii. 1867), give the values of li IO” from x= - 15 to 3-5 at intervals of 'OI to 18 places. Glaisher, in Phil. Trans., 1870, p. 367, gives Ei (ix), Si x, Ci x from x=o to I at intervals of 'OI to 18 places, from x= I to 5 at intervals of -I and thence to 15 at intervals of unity, and for x=2O to II places, besides seven-place tables of Si x and Ci x and tables of their maximum and minimum values. See also Bellavitis, “ Tavole numeric he logaritmo-integral " (a paper in. Memoirs of the Venetian Institute, 1874). F. W. Bessel calculated the values of li 1000, li 10,000, li 100,000, li 200,000, . . li 600,000, and li 1,000,000 (see Abhandlungen, 2, p. 339). In Glaisher, Factor Table for the Sixth Million (1883), § iii., the values of li x are given from x=o to 9,000,000 at intervals of 50,000 to the nearest integer. .]. P. Gram in the publications of the Copenhagen Academy, 1884, 2, No. 6 (pp. 268-272), has given to 20 places the values of Ei x from x=IO to x=20 at intervals of a unit (thus carrying Bretschneider's table to this extent) and to 8, 9, or IO places, the values of the same function from x=5 to x=2O at intervals of O'2 (thus extending Glaisher's table in the Phil. Trans.). Values of;e"“2dx and ez?;e"'”2dx.-Thesezfunctions are emloyed in researches connected with refractions, theor of errors P Z Q, y .

conduction of heat, &c. Let e'"dx and e"'2dx be denoted 0 z

by erf x and erfc x respectively, standing for “ error function " and “error function complement, ” so that erf x-l-erfc x=é/-ir (Phil. lllag., Dec. 1871; it has since been found convenient to transpose as above the definitions there given of erf and erfc). The tables of the functions, and of the functions multiplied by en, are as follows. C. Kramp, Analyse des Réfractions (Strasbourg, 1798), has erfc x from x=o to 3 at intervals of 'OI to 8 or more places, also logm (erfc x) and logw (e'2erfc x) for the same values to 7 places. F. W. Bessel, Fundamenta astronorniae (Konigsberg, 1818), has logm (ezzerfc x) from x=o to 1 at intervals of 'OI to 7 places, likewise for argument logw x, the arguments increasing from 0 to 1 at intervals of '0I. A. M. Legendre, Traité des functions elliptiques (1826), 2, p. 520, contains I'(5, e-x2), that is, 2 erfc x from x=o to -5 at intervals of 'OI to IO places. ]. F. Encke, Berliner ast. Jahrbuch for 1834, gives -; erf x

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from x=o to 2 at intervals of 'OI to 7 places and é erf (px) from x=o to 3-4 at intervals of 'OI and thence to 5 at intervals of -1 to 5 places, p being -4769360. Glaisher, in Phil. Mag., December 1871, gives erfc x from x =3 to 4-5 at intervals of 'OI to 1 1, 13, or 14 places. Encke's tables and two of Kramp's were reprinted in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, art. “ Probabilities.” These tables have also been reprinted in many foreign works on probabilities, errors of observations, &c. In vol. 2 (1880) of his Lehrbuch zur Bahnbestimrnung der Korneten und Planeten T. R. v. Oppolzer gives (p. 587) a table of erf x from x=o to 4~ 52 at intervals of 'OI to 10 places, and (p. 603) a table of 3- erf x from x=o to 2 at intervals of 'OI to /11' - 5

places. Both tables were the result of original calculations. A very large table of logw e"2 erfc x was calculated by R. Radau and published in the Annales de Vobservatoire de Paris (Mérnoires, 1888, 18, B. 1-25) It contains the values of logw e” erfc x from x= -0'I2O to 1~000 at intervals of °00I to 7 places, with differences. A; Markolf in a separate publication, 'Table des valeurs de Vintégrale W e"2dz (St I

Petersburg, 1888), gives erfc x from x =0 to 3 at intervals of -001 and from x=3 to 4-80 at intervals of '01, with first, second, and third differences to II places. He also gives a table of -i-' erf x from x=o to x=2-499 at intervals of -001 and thence to 3-79 at intervals of '01, I. Burgess, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1888, 39, ll., No. 9, published very extensive tables of é erf x, which were entirely