The Messenger of Mathematics is a defunct mathematics journal.
The editor-in-chief was William Allen Whitworth with Charles Taylor and volumes 1–58 were published between 1872 and 1929. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher was the editor-in-chief after Whitworth.
In the nineteenth century, foreign contributions represented 4.7% of all pages of mathematics in the journal.
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