Letter, from John Beale at Yeovil to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Yeovil, Somerset Beale sends a piece by Mr Strode, 'A short treatise of the Combinations, Elections, Permutations and Composition of Quantities', which is ready to be published Note, in another hand, is concerned with mathematicians, eg. Drs Wally, Barrows, Baker, who have made contributions to algebra 5 June 1676