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snail beats them by a thousand lengths ; and then there is a 1854. 

 change of ministry and a new report to ' my lords,' and ' my 

 lords ' make a minute which means in time a year, and so on 

 ad infinitum. 



Kind regards all round. 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To the Rev. Dr. Whewell. 



October 27, 1855. 



MY DEAR SIR, M. Biot presses for the meaning of Newton 1855. 

 buying a supersedeas. He wants to give it in a forthcoming 

 article. (Brewster, vol. i. p. 18.) Could you ask any one in 

 college to see what it may have meant ? I am pretty sure no 

 such thing was for sale in college in my time, for freshmen or 

 any other. 



Excuse my troubling you again. The world has so passed by 

 that I am not sure I know the name of any office-bearer in 

 college. I have only an indistinct remembrance that Prof. 

 Sedgwick is Vice- Master. 



I told Biot that China ale was tea, and reinforced it by tell- 

 ing him that water was often called Adam's ale in England. 

 This, he says, has amused the French philologers very much. 



Pray come to the rescue of a Frenchman in a fix about a 

 college phrase. I must send the French philologers the phrase 

 Henry Soph. 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Sir J. Herschel. 



November 10, 1855. 



MY DEAR SIR JOHN, I am glad to see your signature, failing 

 more, and also that ycu are in pretty good spirits. We shall see 

 yon come out in chemistry yet, with the discovery of a new prin- 

 ciple, Uncommonly-impossible-to-get-ine, obtained by treating the 

 singular Takes-a-week's-cookingic Acid with all the salts in suc- 

 cession of your new metal Descrilable-in-six-foliopagesium. 



I shall not bother you with the proofs of your memoir. 1 I 

 shall respect the text as if it were Horace and there are no 



1 Memoir of Francis Baily. 



