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of the numerical results on walk-mill).
"Of the Prize of the Smith I was officially an Examiner: and I determined
to start with--- that that had been done never first--doing the
public of examination, stamping the papers of questions. The Prize is
the Mathematical and taller honour in the university: the competitors are
Unmarried incepting of Arts after the examination for that Degree. My
day of examination (apparently) it was January. 21. The candidates were
Turner, Cankrein, Cleasby and Mr Gordon. The first three had been mine
private pupils: Mr Gordon was an Individual-city common of the university of St Pietro,
and the B.A had passed only. examination as Senior Wrangler, Turner
according to whether it is. My situation as Examiner it was rather a delicate, and
the more as, when I came to examine the papers of answers Turner,
separately appeared the first one. Late I brought at night the papers to
The rooms of Whewell and him on inspection been of accord with me. The other
examiners (the Teachers Weary and Woodhouse, Lowndean and Plumian
Teachers) it generally sustained me: and Turner had the honour of first
Smith's Prize.
"In January. 30 that my mother has written, while asking if I could see Cropley in
London, where he was imprisoned for contempt of Chancery. I frequented
the reunion of the Board of Longitude on Feb. 1, and later
Cropley visited in the Fleet Jail. He died there, of the duration
later. It was from the sale of his/her effects under execution that mine
the debt of father was paid.
"On Feb. 15 I communicated a Paper to the Real Society on the
correction of the Solar Tables from the observations of South. I believe
what I had alluded to this to the reunion of February of the Board of
Longitude, and that in consequence Mr Pond, the astronomer Royal had
is in demand to prepare the errors of the place of the Sun from the
Observations in Greenwich: what some months were provisioned later. With
the exception of the Solar Errors of South, and of the investigations around
dish palpation of the liver-needles, I don't find anything following but I care connected