16 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1825. bury), G. Peacock (Dean of Ely), and W. Whewell (after- 

 wards Master of Trinity). With all of these gentlemen he 

 kept up a friendship and correspondence during their 

 joint lives. 



Early His college friends of nearly his own age were William 



Heald, William Mason, Arthur Neate, and Thomas 

 Falconer, all of Trinity College. Among those whose 

 friendship he valued, none were more esteemed by him 

 than his teachers Dean Peacock, Dr. Whewell, Mr. Cod- 

 dington, and Dr. Thorp, afterwards Archdeacon Thorp. 

 Mr. Heald, afterwards Rector of Birstal, in Yorkshire, 

 died in 1875. Mr. Mason, Rector of Pickhill, near 

 Thirsk, died in 1873, and his companion and chum of 

 Trinity College days, Arthur Neate, died at his rectory, 

 Alvescot, near Oxford, in 1870. 



Some peculiarities in his college life were well known 

 to Cambridge men of his year. The habit of reading 

 through great part of the night, and, in consequence, 

 getting up very late the next day, was notorious ; and 

 fellow-collegians, coming home from a wine party at four 

 in the morning, might find him just going to bed. One 

 of these, better known in the University for TOWS than for 

 reading, has told me how often he himself, being late next 

 day from a different cause, has gone into De Morgan's 

 rooms, just below his own, and begged for an air on the 



Love of flute to ( soothe a headache.' His flute, which he played 

 exquisitel}', was a great source of pleasure to himself and 

 his friends. He was a member of the ' Camus,' a musical 

 club so called from the initials of its designation Cam- 

 bridge Amateur Musical Union Society ; and their 

 meetings, and those at the houses of a few musical 

 families, were his chief recreation. He was a born 

 musician. His mother said that when listening to the 

 piano, even when a very little child, a discordant note 

 would make him cry out and shiver. I must not omit 

 to record his insatiable appetite for novel-reading, always 

 a great relaxation in his leisure time, and doubtless a 



