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Many as were our friends, we had but very little 183!). 

 visiting, my husband's time being so fully filled with Orderl r 

 his work. The last was done with exceeding order and habits. 

 punctuality. .He has himself described Mr. Baily's habits 

 of order ; and his own, though less apparent, were equally 

 characteristic. He had the faculty of arrangement in an 

 unusual degree, but it showed itself more in classification 

 than in tidiness. In looking at any undertaking for scien- 

 tific or practical purposes, he could not go on till all 

 his materials were ready and arranged. This faculty is 

 seldom so well proportioned to the power of carrying out 

 the work projected. Mr. Baily had order of every sort, 

 from the classification of formulse or facts to the perfect 

 arrangement of his house and appointments. In Mr. De 

 Morgan it showed itself differently. Not having the 

 means to indulge in the luxuries enjoyed by richer and 

 more affluent writers or experimentalists, he could rot 

 furnish his library with all the writing appliances and 

 handsome bindings that ornament rich men's studies, 

 and his old table and desk, and other cheap contrivances, 

 looked shabby enough. Any one who went into his room 

 would be struck at first by the homeliness of the whole, 

 and the quantity of old and unbound books and packets of 

 papers. But when it was seen how the books were ar- 

 ranged and the papers labelled and put into their proper 

 places according to subjects, the adaptation of means to 

 ends became as apparent as in the clearness and precision 

 with which he laid down principles, and showed what 

 was to be done before making a beginning on his work. 

 His contrivances in the way of inkstand, penholder, and 

 blotting-block, had none of them a new or unused look, 

 but all showed that every contingency had been carefully 

 provided for. After gutta-percha came into use he 

 employed it in every possible way, moulding it into pen- 

 holders, caps, covers, and all sorts of fastenings. He 

 says, in The Budget of Paradoxes, ' I never could spell, 

 the word, but if cowc/wJce goes, I go too ; ' and being 



