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1856. strongest mummy soup made in a Papin's digester. They 

 are cannibals, and would enjoy the idea. Fancy the souls of the 

 poor Egyptians, who preserved their bodies with such care for a 

 future resuscitation, seeing their remains devoured by ferocious 

 savages, and incorporated literally into the bodies of the same ! 



I have been looking at a 10-inch bar of aluminium which 

 Graham hp,s lent me. Queer stun . Costs at present its bulk of 

 silver, being of the weight. Smells a little, and rings like 

 Scyllaand Charybdis I mean the Sirens. It makes a very pretty 

 noise. They are making it at Paris in earnest. They pat 40 Ibs. 

 of sodium into some preparation at one go, I am told, during 

 the manufacture of a lot. 



Our kind regards to all the ladies. 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Sir John Herschel. 



7 Camden Street, Nov. 8, 1856. 



MY DEAR SIR JOHN, Are you doing well and getting on ? 

 I am going on with my shoulder famously, chalking on the 

 board ; ! but I can't do everything yet. I have learnt that 

 whoso putteth out his shoulder, him shall his shoulder put out. 



I think that if you were to give me an answer before Friday, 

 I might talk of you at the Astronomical, where people ask after 

 you. Next, how are all your party ? no small one. 



I saw Warburton a week ago at his own house, working 

 away at A n O m , in utter falsification of the maxim that out of 

 nothing can come nothing. 



I have nothing in the world to say about mathematics except, 

 musing idly, I found that Euclid has not demonstrated the way 

 to bisect angles. 



I send you a lecture on decimal coinage. It is a slow-moving 

 subject, but it must be carried sooner or later, in spite of 

 ministers. They might have mentioned it at Paris, while they 

 were talking about everything. I mean the Plenipotentiaries. 



Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



1 In his lecture-room. ED. 



