Lecture given By

Reproduced verbatim below is a lecture by B. M. Wilson, one of the three editors of Ramanujan’s Collected Papers [13], given at the University of Leeds in (probably) May, 1927. It might be noted that L. J. Rogers had been a faculty member at the University of Leeds; he died in 1933. A handwritten copy of this lecture can be found among the papers of G. N. Watson in the library at Trinity College, Cambridge. Although readers familiar with Ramanujan’s contributions to partitions will not find any new material in this lecture, we think that it has interest for historical reasons. After providing the lecture, we offer a few additional remarks at the end of this article. In the sequel, C. P. S. is shorthand for Cambridge Philosophical Society, and MS(S) is an abbreviation for manuscript(s).