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and me taken for subject The apparatus of the Motors of Vapor in the
Cornish digs, and especially of the Motors that Pump and Pomps. It
made an excellent lecture: the subjects were to that undescribeds of the time
in books, and unknown to engineers in general out of Cornwall.
"My lectures of University seem to have been Oct. 21 to Dec. 14 to 31
Smaller Sophs, Dec. 4 to 12 to 12 Sophses Senior. I assisted to the
examinations of the Questionists. I didn't have private pupils. On
Nov. 26 I communicated Philosophical Society in the Cambridge a
You carpet on the Theory of Pendulums, Equilibriums and Escapements: and me
you find questions of the symbolism of Babbage to an escapement that me
proposed. I have the various investigations on the Earth, supposed to
you project to middle latitudes above of the elliptic form. In November a
account of the failure of Dolcoath (from Whewell) you/he/she was given to the Reality
Society.
"For a long time on Dec. 7, 1826, the election to the Lucasian
Professorate took place: I was chosen (I unanimously think) and
admitted. I believe that this gave the great satisfaction to the
University in general. My uncle, Arthur Biddell was in Cambridge on
that evening, and it was the first one of my friends that felt of him. On the
same page of my quires on which this is mentioned there is a great
list of apparatus to be built for Lectures of Lucasian notes of,
you experiment with the Car of Atwood, & the c. In December, correspondence
with Dollond on prisms. I immediately published a printed notice that
I would hold professorial lectures in the next Term.
"On Dec. 13 I have a letter from Smith of Mr that informs me about the
dangerous illness (the fever) what you/he/she had almost attached every member of
his/her family, worse Richarda of everybody. On Dec. 23 that I have gone to Bury. The
business with Cropley had been established from the sale of its ownership
under the execution and my father non lost a lot of his/her debt. But him
you/he/she had declined a lot in body and you/he/she had minded, and it now had strange