Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/108 - Hexagon to Square/Historical Note

Historical Note on by : $108$ - Hexagon to Square
claims that he was the first to publish this construction, citing the Weekly Dispatch for August $1901$.

However, reports that  unearthed the information that in fact it had previously been discovered by.

This was published in Volume $\text {II}$ of in $1875$, on page $83$.