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tho bras? top, of which he wants ono. 1 1*3 s xys that tlio earth 

 has been really found to chango its axis regularly in tho way 

 I supposed. Faraday has also been writing about hi* own 

 subjects. 1 have had also to write Forbes a long report on 

 colours; so that for every note I hive got I have had to write 

 a couple of sheets in reply, and reporting progress takes a deal 

 of writing and spelling. 



7 ' Ho devised a model (now at the Cavendish 

 Laboratory) to exhibit the motions of tho satellites 

 in a disturbed ring, "lor the edification of sensible 

 image-worshippers." 



The essay was awarded the prixc, and scoured for 

 its author great credit among scientific men. 



In another letter, written during the same session, 

 he says: "I lind my principal work hero is teaching 

 my men to avoid vaguo expressions, as ' a certain 



force/ meaning uncertain; inny instead of taunt; 

 will be instead of in ; profiortionul instead of equal" 

 The death, during the autumn, of his Collego 

 friend Pomeroy, from lever in India, was a great blow 

 to him; his letters at the time show the depth of his 

 feelings and his beliefs. 



The question of the fusion of the two Colleges at 

 Aberdeen, King's Collego and the Marischal College, 

 was coming to the fore. " Know all men," lie says, 

 in a letter to Professor Campbell, " that I am a 

 Fusionist" 



In February, 1858, he was still engaged on Saturn's 

 rings, while hard at work during tho same time with 

 his classes. Ho had established a voluntary class for 

 his students of the previous year, and was reading 



^with them Newton's " Lunar Theory and Astronomy." 



/This was followed by "Electricity and Magnetism," 



