CHAP. VII.] BACHELOR-SCHOLAR. 211 



Is Pomeroy up, or where ? This is the 2nd time of 

 asking. 



To HIS FATHER. 



Triii. Coll., Saturday, 21st April 1855. 

 [Date in John C. M.'s hand.] 



Lots of men are going in for the H.E.I. C.S. examination, 

 Pomeroy, B., C., D. (the best double degree for many 

 years), E. (Senior Wrangler), etc., so I suppose the competi- 

 tion will be pretty active ; but it is evident that these men 

 will be totally different judges, etc., tho' they may be all 

 good in examination subjects. 



Pomeroy is a genial giant, generous and strong, but 

 hasty in condemnation tho' slow to wrath. B., intelligent 

 and able to detect any humbug but his own ; but excitable, 

 and impudent in the extreme to people he does not know. 

 C. has strong feelings and affections, with a great amount 

 of sympathy for all cases, but it is repressed for want of 

 courage, and he is left with somewhat of a sneaking virtue 

 of his own, always trying to put on the manners which 

 suit those he is with. D. is a good man of business, using 

 up every scrap of his time most successfully, and honest, I 

 believe. E. is what I don't know, but I can conceive him 

 reduced by circumstances to act the part of Sir Elijah Impey 

 in India ; but I hope circumstances may be different, and 

 then he may be a harmless mathematician or scientific 

 referee, and leave a high reputation behind him. 



Trin. Coll., Vesp. SS. Philipp. & S. Jac. 1855. 

 I have been working at the motion of fluids, and have 

 got out some results. I am going to show the colour trick 

 at the Philosophical on Monday. Eouth has been writing 

 a book about Newton in conjunction with Lord Brougham. 

 Stokes is back again and lecturing as usual. 



Saturday, 5th May 1855. 



The Eoyal Society have been very considerate in send- 

 ing me my paper on colours just when I wanted it for the 



