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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
At the same Meeting, Mr Commissioner Smith reported the opinion of the Committee appointed to examine the three Dissertations offered as Solutions of the Count de Windischgratz's Problem, [See supra, Aug. 6. 1787.]; which was, That none of the three Dissertations amounted, either to a solution, or to an approximation towards a solution of that problem. The Committee, however, intimated their opinion, that one of thefe Dissertations, superscribed with the following sentence, Si quid novisti rectius istis, &c. though neither a solution of the problem nor an approximation to it, was a work of great merit. The Royal Society, hereupon, pronounced their judgment in terms of the said report; and they requested Mr Fraser Tytler to transmit this judgment, and the opinion of the Committee by a letter to the Count de Windischgratz.