60 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1832. The remainder of the letter contains a comparison of 



dates and facts, recurring again to his object of proving 

 that Morland the mechanician was not the Eoyalist. 

 M. Hachette was probably the more satisfied in some de- 

 gree by the references Mr. De Morgan gave him, as I find 

 in the Penny Cyclopsedia article, founded on those au- 

 thorities, that the history of Morland's relations with the 

 Eoyalists is very doubtful. 



His list letter to Mr. De Morgan is dated September 30, 

 1832. 



Mr. De Morgan had, I think, met M. Quetelet in 

 Paris in 1830, but M. Quetelet had not remembered this 

 when he wrote to Mr. De Morgan in 1833, 



Mon cher Monsieur, Je vons remercie beaucoup pour 1'obli- 

 geance que vous avez eue de m'addresser la table que vous m'avez 

 promise, et vos ouvrages que j'ai parcourus deja avec le plus 

 grand plaisir. La rcethode que j'ai trouvee dans vos livres 

 elementaires augmente encore le prix que j 'attache aux suffrages 

 honorables que vous avez bien voulu exprimer pour les miens. 



Je suis tres charm e que notre ami commun, M. Babbage, 

 m'ait procure le plaisir de faire votre connaissance : je desire 

 beaucoup le cultiver. Je regrette de ne pouvoir aller moi-meme 

 vous exprimer mes remerciments, mais, comme je vais aujonr- 

 d'hui, j'ai du me borner a vous eerire, compfcant bien sur votre 

 indulgence. 



Recevez, je vous prie, mon cher monsieur, 1'expressioii de 

 mes sentimens distingues. 



Tout a vous, 



QUETELET. 



Amicable The place of registrar of the Amicable Assurance 



Office having become vacant about this time, Mr. De 

 Morgan sent in his name as a candidate. He was of 

 course well qualified for the situation, and it was a lucra- 

 tive one, but he would not have liked the work so well as 

 he did teaching and writing, and he had, as he afterwards 

 told me, but one reason for wishing to succeed. Our 

 friend Mr. Thomas Galloway, a distinguished Mathe- 

 matician, and Fellow of the Astronomical Society, a man 



