194 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



SECTION VII. 



CORRESPONDENCE 1846-55, 



To Rev. Dr. Whewell. 



Camden Street, Oct. 21, 1846. 



1846. MY DEAR SIR, First, I am very much obliged by your kind 

 invitation, but my lectures are imperative, and I cannot leave 

 town in November. 



Next, as to Athenaeum police report, you have made worse 

 guesses, unless indeed you never were mistaken in your life. 1 



Now as to the papers, The only wish I have for them to 

 appear in one is that I may get my copies all at one time, and 

 get them disposed of with one trouble. Whether, this condition 

 being fulfilled, they are printed in the form of two papers or one 

 does not matter, and I agree with you that they are distinct 

 enough to be two, and might better be so. 



I am going to publish a work on Logic, which, as I told you, 

 will appear soon after the paper. This is sufficient reason for 

 not developing in the paper. Indeed, the Society must know 

 that fact, and take it into consideration in deciding on the 

 printing. There is of course an advantage in new things going 

 first through the usual channels in which scientific matters are 

 propagated, and so I should like the Transactions to have them. 

 But, tola re perspecta, the Society may think otherwise, par- 

 ticularly if there is heavy matter, typographically speaking, on 

 hand already. Your suggestion about taking a subject I will 

 think of, but what subjects run very thickly in syllogisms ? 

 They are mostly full of proof of a very few. Some of Butler's 

 Analogy or a chapter of Chillingworth would perhaps be 

 promising. The syllogistic examples in books of Logic are 

 literally nothing more than terms of one word or so substituted 

 in the formal syllogism I gave some examples (one of each 

 mood) in the Penny Cyclopaedia, article Syllogism which (a few 

 1 The l Athenaeum police report ' was a humorous skit upon the 

 discovery of the planet Neptune. 



