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papers of questions for the Prizes of Smith (there being a deficiency of
an Examiner, viz. the Teacher of Plumian).
"In front of the beginning of 1828 Whewells and me I had determined on
repeating the experiments of Dolcoath. In January. 8 I have a letter from
Davies Gilbert (then President of the Real Society) congratulating himself/herself/itself me
on the Solar Theory, and alluding to the visit in our deliberate summer to
Cornwall. We had applied somehow to the Board of Longitude for
pendulums but the Dr Young desired to postpone them, while having with Capt. Basil
Room prepared a scheme to make Lieut. You raise face the whole job:
Whewell and I were indignant to this, and any more was said around
it. In January. 24 Dr Young, in to give notice of the Board of Longitude
meeting, it informs me that the clocks and pendulums are ready.
"I had done known that I was a candidate for the Plumian
Professorate, and nobody thought of him/it value while opporrmi. One
person at least (Earnshaw) you/he/she had intended to compete, but he called on
me to do some that I was a candidate, and it immediately withdrew. ME
succession as Agent for the care of the observatory,
ingrafting me in him. But in the meantime I said each that the
salary (on _L300_) it was not enough for me; and in January. 20 me
rough a manifesto or question to the university for an increase
of salary. The day of election to the Professorate was Feb. 6. As me
it was officially (how Teacher of Lucasian) an elector, I was present, and
I explained to the electors that I could not undertake the
the responsibility of the observatory without increase of income, and
what I asked for their express sanction to my question to the
The university for that purpose. They generally accepted this, and I was
chosen. I immediately went to London to witness a reunion of the
Board of Longitude and he/she returned on Feb. 8. On Feb. 15 I started mine
Lectures (what, this year, included Mechanics, Optics, Pneumatics,
and the hydrostatics) in the room under the Library of University. The number