Contents of The Mathematical Correspondent

Karpinski, p. 580-581 indicates that this was likely published May 1804 through February 1806.

Volume I.    1804. 

Number 1, pages i-iv and 1-20.

Title Page.   Page [i].

Preface.   Pp. [iii]-iv.

ARTICLE I. A New elucidation of the principles of the Rule of Proportion, in arithmetic; applied to the resolution of practical questions, and to the invention of general rules for making in the neatest and shortestt manner possible, many of the most useful calculations that daily occur in the counting-house. By G. Baron.  Pp 1-15 and 30-

ARTICLE II. A PROBLEM, by Wm. Elliot, printer, N. York. P 15.

ARTICLE III. A Curious and useful proposition in Geometry, with its application to a certain subject in Geography and Navigation. By R. Tagart. Pp 16-19.

ARTICLE IV. NEW QUESTIONS, to be answered in the next number. Pp. 19-20.

Number 2, pp. 21-44.

ARTICLE V. ANSWERS to the Questions proposed in ARTICLE IV. Pp. 21-29.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, &c., p. 29.

ARTICLE I. Continuted from page 15. Pp 30-40. The ARTICLE ends with the date (or submission?) April 20, 1804.

ARTICLE VI. A PROBLEM, by James Temple, New-York. Pp. 41-42.

ARTICLE VII.  NEW QUESTIONS to be answered in the next number. Pp. 42-44.

Number 3, pp. 45-68.

ARTICLE VIII.        ANSWERS to the Questions proposed in ARTICLE VIII. Pp. 45-58.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, &c. Pp. 58-59.

ARTICLE IX. A short Disquisition, concerning the Definition, of the word Power, in Arithmetic and Algebra. By G. Baron. Pp. 59-66. See my comments on this paper.

ARTICLE X. NEW QUESTIONS to be answered in the next Number. Pp. 66-68

Number 4, pp. 69-92.

ARTICLE XI.        ANSWERS to the Questions proposed in ARTICLE X. Pp. 69-82.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, &c. Pp. 82-83. 

ARTICLE XII. An Inquiry respecting the true Definition of Proportional Numbers. By G. Baron. Pp. 83-89.

ARTICLE XIII. NEW QUESTIONS to be answered in the next Number. Pp. 90-92.

Number 5, pp. 93-116.

ARTICLE XIV.        SOLUTIONS of the Questions proposed in ARTICLE XIII. Pp. 93-102.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, &c. P. 102.

ARTICLE XV. A Disquisition concerning the Motion of a Ship which is steered on a given Point of the Compass. By Robert Adrain. Pp. 103-114.

ARTICLE XVI. NEW QUESTIONS to be solved in the next Number. Pp. 115-116. 

Number 6, pp. 117-140. 

ARTICLE XVII.        SOLUTIONS of the Questions proposed in ARTICLE XVI. Pp. 117-130.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, &c. P. 131.

ARTICLE XVIII. An Essay on the first Elements of Fluxions, being the first Section of "the Principles of Fluxions, written by the Rev. S. Vince, A.M.  F.R.S.  Plumian Profesor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, in England." Edit. 1800. Republished at the request of Walter Folger, jun. Nantucket. Pp. 132-138 and 155-

ARTICLE XIX. NEW QUESTIONS to be solved in the next Number. P. 139-140.

Number 7, pp. 141-164.

ARTICLE XX.        SOLUTIONS of the Questions proposed in ARTICLE XIX. Pp. 141-153.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, &c. P. 154.

ARTICLE XVIII. Continued from page 138. Pp 155-163.  

ARTICLE XXI. NEW QUESTIONS to be solved in the next Number. P. 163-164.

Number 8, pp. 165-188.

ARTICLE XXII.        SOLUTIONS of the Questions proposed in ARTICLE XXI. Pp. 165-173.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, &c. Pp. 174-175.

ARTICLE XXIII. The two first Chapters of Baron Maseres' Dissertation on the use of the Negative Sign in Algebra, published with a view of drawing the attention of American Mathematicians to a careful perusal of the original work.  Pp. 175-186 and 201-212. 

ARTICLE XXIV. NEW QUESTIONS to be solved in the next Number. P. 186-188.

Number 9, pp. 189-

ARTICLE XXV.        SOLUTIONS of the Questions proposed in ARTICLE XXIV. Pp. 189-199.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, &c. Pp. 200-201.

ARTICLE XXIII. Continued from page 186.  Pp. 201-212. 

ARTICLE XXVI. A View of the Diophantine Algebra. By Robert Adrain. Pp. 212-241.

This was the first article published on Diophantine Analysis in the US [Coolidge 1926, p. 66].

A List of the Subscribers to the first Volume of the Mathematical Correspondent. Pp. 241-248. 

                    The End of Vol. I. 

Volume II.  1807.

Number 1, pp. vi + 7-24.

Title Page.   Page [i].

Preface. By Robert Adrain.   Pp. [iii]-vi. 

ARTICLE I. View of the Diophantine Algebra --- continued from ARTICLE XXVI. Vol I. by Robert Adrain. Pp. 7-17.

ARTICLE II. Observations on the Study of Mathematics. By the Editor. Pp. 17-22.

ARTICLE III. NEW QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED IN THE NEXT NUMBER. Pp. 22-24.

No more issues of the journal were published.

Coolidge 1926, p. 66, notes that "all the material" of Volume II "was used afresh in his own new journal, The Analyst, or Mathematical Companion, Philadelphia, 1808." This will be easy to veryify as The Analyst is available on JSTOR.