USEFUL KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY. 53 



Cyclopaedia,' amounting in all to nearly one-sixth of the 1831-32. 

 whole work, were begun by him at the outset, and con- Penny Cy- 



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eluded with the last volume of the Supplement, in 1858. 



That his labours in this direction were fully appreciated 

 is certain. He gave time, advice, and help in every way to 

 the Society's work. 1 I find on the title-page of the 

 Address from which the extract is made, in his own 

 handwriting, 



6 This Address was drawn up by me ; even as to p. 17, 

 I had to blow my own trumpet, because those who 

 insisted on its being blown, and proposed to do it for me, 

 were going to blow louder than I liked. 



6 A. DE MORGAN. 



' Aug. 26, 1852.' 



P. 17 contained, to the best of my recollection, his 

 own modified version of the laudatory expressions inserted 

 in the rough draft by the President and Vice-President, 

 who had taken it home for inspection. 



Private pupils occupied a good deal of the time which 

 Mr. De Morgan had before spent in lecturing in Univer- 

 sity College. He was also engaged in writing for the 

 4 Quarterly Journal of Education ' of the Useful Know- 

 ledge Society, of which the first volume appeared in 1831. 

 It was carried on for five years under the editorship of Mr. 

 George Long, formerly Professor in University College. 



The ' Companion to the Almanac ' for this year con- 1831. 



1 In 1867, Mr. Coates wrote to Mr. De Morgan, in answer to his 

 inquiry as to the place where the relics of the Society were deposited, 



' Take my word for it, that I have the liveliest recollection of the 

 U.K.S., mingled with some pride, that for twenty years of my life I 

 was not altogether useless to mankind. Nor have I been since, as to 

 that matter, in spite of your innuendoes/ 



* The archives, or papers of the Society, were deposited by Conolly 

 in (I suppose the cellars of) University College ; in two boxes or chests, 

 as I have heard. 



1 The process was after my dynasty was closed. The common seal 

 is in my hands, locked up in a little brass box, whereof Sir Isaac 

 Goldsmid had one key and Lord Brougham had another. The original 

 charter is, I suppose, in one of the two chests aforesaid.' 



