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It is now over a year since WW saw some of JJ's [English artist and soldier] work at the Architectural Museum. He had sought 'to invite attention, to the 'source' of true scientific forms and proportions, applicable to art'. He wrote to Lord Stanley on the value and extent to which he had 'determined simple and practical geometrical facts, systematically, and connectedly, far beyond what is taught at schools'. JJ does not know if any mathematican such as WW, 'has been desired by, or given to, the Board of Trade' an account of what he as done. JJ describes the defective teaching of geometry to architects and artizans: 'the theory of the schools in reference to truth, and character of curved lines, however it may expand the mind of the mathematician, is not sufficent practically for instructing either the mind or the eye of architects and artists'.