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he seldom gave up an evening to friends without feeling 1859. 

 that his work for the next day had accumulated. When 

 he had nowhere to go to between the lectures he spent an 

 hour or two in the Professors' room with some of his 

 colleagues in the middle of the day, and this was his chief 

 rest and recreation. I cannot record any of the conver- 

 sation held there, but I know that for many years it was 

 very pleasant and sociable, and many a good anecdote 

 and riddle (generally traceable to Dr. Sharpey) have come 

 to me from that little conclave. 



One day my husband told me that he had only been 

 in the Professors' room for a few minutes for two days, 

 for that a poor man driving a cab had been thrown from 

 his seat just as he was himself crossing the road. ' They 

 picked him up,' he said, ' quite insensible, but he recovered 

 when we got him home. I saw him comfortably in bed, 

 and that he did not want anything. Yesterday he was 

 much better.' I found that the injured man's home was 

 more than a mile from the College. 



Mr. De Morgan's friend Mr. Drinkwater Bethune held Essay on 

 a high Government appointment in India. Besides being ty. 

 a statesman and a distinguished scholar, he was a philan- 

 thropist, and was active in promoting the education of 

 Hindoos and Mahomedans. The lives of Galileo and Kepler 

 in the Library of Useful Knowledge were by him, as was also 

 an essay On Probability, which he wrote in conjunction 

 with Sir J. Lubbock. On the back of this little book the 

 binder had by mistake printed Mr. De Morgan's name, 

 and the attribution to himself of a work to which he had 

 no claim troubled the reputed writer, who, of course, was 

 uneasy till he had thoroughly disowned it. On the cover 

 of his own copy he substituted for his name those of the 

 real authors, adding after the printed words ' by Augustus 

 De Morgan ' the comment, < the last named is homo 

 trium literarum. 9 1 



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