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and system of teaching, taken by pupils for whom he had 1838. 

 tt sincere regard, and who both loved and venerated their Mr ; llut ~ 

 old master, Mr. Richard Hutton and Mr. Sedley Taylor, lections. 

 Mr. Hutton says, 



' Few men have had more eminent pupils than your 

 husband, and few have done more to cultivate the intel- 

 lects of those whom they taught. As you know, in Mr. De 

 Morgan's time, the Mathematical classes of University 

 College were quite as much classes in Logic, at least in the 

 Logic of number and magnitude, as in Mathematics ; but 

 of my own fellow-pupils very few have, I think, since 

 become eminent in the world. The present Master of 

 the Rolls (Sir George Jessel) was, I believe, your husband's 

 pupil a year or two before my time, as was the late Mr. 

 Jacob Waley, who, after being his pupil, became his col- 

 league at University College. Mr. Walter Bagehot, whose 

 books on the working of our political constitution and on 

 the early forms of national government have attracted 

 the attention of most thoughtful men, was a fellow- 

 student with me, and one of the chief subjects of discus- 

 sion between us used to be the logical questions raised in 

 the Mathematical classes, especially in your husband's 

 lectures on the theory of limits, the theory of probabili- 

 ties, the calculus of operations, and the interpretation of 

 symbols applied,- with a new and extended meaning, to 

 cases which were not within the scope of their original 

 definition. Professor Stanley Jevons, of Owen's College, 

 Manchester, who has always prized very highly your 

 husband's teaching, was his pupil many years after I had 

 left the College, and no one has made better use of the 

 time passed in those delightful classes ; and every book 

 he publishes bears witness to the help he has derived from 

 your husband's teaching. 



6 One thing which made his classes lively to men who 

 were up to his mark, was the humorous horror he used 

 to express at our blunders, especially when we took the 

 conventional or book view instead of the logical view. 



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