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additional beyond the fact of its bein^ catalogued, 

 among the " Dining Parlour " portraits, thus : — 

 " 42. Sir Philip Sidney." (Brady's Visitor's 

 Guide to Knole in Kent, 8vo. 1830, p. 160.) 



I can say little more on the subject of Sir P. 

 Sidney's portraits, painted or engraved, besides 

 referring to the copious list in Granger's Biog. 

 Histonj of England (5th ed. 1824), i. 286, 287. 

 311. 331.; adding to it the name of Crispin de 

 Passe, the elder; and calling attention to the 

 statement of Granger that 



" There is a portrait of Sir P. S. in one of the apart- 

 ments of Warwick Castle, which is with good reason be- 

 lieved to be an original, as it belonged to Fulke Greville, 

 Lord Brooke, his intimate friend." 



There is also one, I am informed, at New Col- 

 lege, Oxford. Mr. Hunter, I have heard, has a 

 very curious portrait, much damaged, of Sir 

 Philip's wife and daughter, on panel ; it bears the 

 name on it, and it came from Longleat. 



It is to be hoped that the munificent founders 

 of the University of Sydney, in N. S. Wales, will 

 have copied an unquestionable portrait of this 

 their especial worthy, when he stands represented, 

 in full size, on the stained-glass windows of their 

 academic Hall. (Illustrated Times, 26th Feb. 

 1859.) J. K. 



Highclere. 



P.S. It will not be out of place to inquire 

 here, what prospect is there, if any, of Southey's 

 " nearly, if not quite, complete " Life of Sir P. S. 

 being published? The Rev. J. W. Warter, 

 Southey's son-in-law, mentioned it in 1851 as 

 being in the hands of the Rev. C. C. Southey. 

 (Southey's Common-Place Book, 4th Series, p. 240. 

 notcS) 



MATHEMATICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

 (2"« S. X. 162. 218. 232.) 



To the reqiarks of Professor De"" Morgan I 

 would add that, after the death of Newton, Dr. 

 Pellet was appointed by the executors to examine 

 his manuscripts and papers, and to select such as 

 he deemed adapted for publication (Pen. Cyc, art. 

 Newton ; vol. xvi., p. 202. col. 2.) 



Reuben Burrow, in his " Proof that the Hin- 

 doos had the Binomial Theorem", announced his 

 intention very shortly to publish translations of 

 the " Leelavotty" and "Beej Geneta." He stated 

 that, by the help of a Pundit, he bad translated 

 part of the " Beej Ganeta" nearly six years before ; 

 a period when, in his judgment, no European but 

 himself even suspected that the Indians had any 

 algebra (Appendix to As. Res. vol. ii, pp. 489 — 

 490). The translation from the Sanscrit (ibid., 

 495 — 496) on a question of combinations and its 

 answer which Burrow gave in the same commu- 

 nication was, I think, taken from the "Leela- 



votty." Compare Colebrooke, Algebra, p. 50 ; 

 also Taylor, Lilawati, p. 59. 



Burrow collected, in India, many oriental manu- 

 scripts, both in the Sanskrit and in the Persian 

 languages, the latter being translations only of the 

 former : most of these he bequeathed by will to 

 one of his sons there, but with an injunction not 

 to be delivered to him till he should have learned 

 those languages and sciences. But one or two of 

 these Burrow left to his friend Mr. Dalby, into 

 whose possession they came, consisting of the Per- 

 sian translations of the Bija Ganita and Lilawati, 

 with an attempt at an English translation of them 

 by Mr. Burrow ; but these attempts being mostly 

 interlineations written with a black lead pencil 

 were [in 1812?] in danger of being obliterated. 

 See Hutton, History of Algebra, (Tracts, vol. ii) 

 pp. 163 — 164. A memoir of Burrow by John 

 Henry Swale is printed at pp. 267 — 269 of voL 

 liii of the Mechanics' Magazine (for Oct. 5, 1850, 

 No. 1417). It was communicated to that work 

 by Mr. T. T. Wilkinson of Burnley. Swale men- 

 tions one son only. He states (ib., 269) that 

 Burrow had three daughters and a son, all of 

 whom followed him to India in 1790. Some time 

 after his death (which took place at Buxor, on the 

 7th June 1792, ib. 268), they returned to London, 

 where the wife and two daughters died soon after ; 

 — the remaining daughter married. The son ob- 

 tained a lieutenancy in the Company's service, 

 and returned to India, where he died (ib. 269). 

 Professor De Morgan (References, p. 18, of sepa- 

 rate copy) says that Ley bourn's ' Mathematical 

 Repository,' New Series, vol. v., (London, 1830) 

 contains an obituary of Dalby (mostly autobio- 

 graphy). 



Strachey, too, informs us that Burrow left his 

 translations to Dalby (Bij. Gan,, p. 5). They 

 consist of fair copies in Persian of Ata Allah's and 

 Fyzee's translations, of the Bija Ganita and Lila- 

 vati respectively, with the English of each word 

 written above the Persian. "" The words are trans- 

 lated separately without any regard to the mean- 

 ing of complete sentences. Strachey inferred, 

 from many short notes which Burrow had written 

 in the margin of his Bija Ganita, that Burrow had 

 access to the original Sanscrit (probably by means 

 of a Moonshee and a Pandit) and compared it with 

 the Persian. Dalby allowed Strachey the use of 

 Burrow's copy, and so enabled him to supply de- 

 ficiencies in his own (ibid., p. 5, note""). The use 

 which Strachey made of Burrow's papers will be 

 seen on referring to pp. 35. 61. 63. 68. 72. 80. 85. 

 and 89 of his ' Bija.' 



The passage cited by Strachey, at p. 35, from 

 Burrow seems to be text (compare Colebrooke, 

 Algebra, p. 167), and a reference to pp. 208 — 210 

 of Colebrooke will authenticate another passage 

 which Strachey has (p. 60) extracted from Bur- 

 row. Colebrooke's figures at p. 224 of his Algebra 



