II. Second paper 'on the numerical value of Euler's constant, and on the summation of the harmonic series employed in obtaining such value.'

Three cases and sources of inaccuracy in finding the value of E in the former paper (Proc. Roy. Soc. vol. xv. p. 429) having been pointed out by Mr. Glaisher, and some other minor errors not noticed by him having since been detected by the author, and these having vitiated the results, but only in a slight degree the inferences drawn from them (for in the former paper the last and leading conclusion as to the value of E, though limited , was certainly correct ), the author has been led, from a deep sense of obligation to the Royal Society, to revise, correct, and extend what he had previously done. And it will be seen, from comparing Mr. Glaisher’s remarks and results with what follows in this paper, that the supplementary matter herein given, including the extension of E &c. to 110 places of decimals, can scarcely be without interest to mathematicians, and especially as regards the summation of the harmonic series in the formula for finding the value of E. Not having seen M. Oettinger’s article in Crelle’s ‘Journal,’ “On Computing the value of E,” the author is unable to state what artifices he used in summing the harmonic series. Mr. Glaisher gives a very simple and obvious one from M. Oettinger, which the author could not but see and employ for calculating the values of the reciprocals of the even numbers.