This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...to these are united (as will be done in the collected works in course of publication by the Clarendon Press) his other mathematical writings, many of them containing his own further developments of theories referred to in the reports." Then, after some remarks about General Sabine, who had long outlived the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...to these are united (as will be done in the collected works in course of publication by the Clarendon Press) his other mathematical writings, many of them containing his own further developments of theories referred to in the reports." Then, after some remarks about General Sabine, who had long outlived the ordinary age of man, and with whom I had no personal acquaintance, he adds: --"There is yet a very great loss: another late President and Trustee of the Association, --one who has done for it so much, and has so often attended the meetings, whose presence among us at this meeting we might have hoped for, --the President of the Royal Society, William Spottis-woode. It is unnecessary to say anything of his various merits: the place of his burial, the crowd of sorrowing friends who were present in the Abbey, bear witness to the esteem in which he was held." Letter from Mrs. Bishop. Speaking of Ireland, she remarks that she is " a sphinx in rags with a hysterical face, screaming to every one to answer her." Of a photograph of Mrs. Craven, who has been spending twelve days with her, she says: --" She appears quite as she is--and alas! seventy-five years old; but, I think, we who love her will rejoice to have a faithful portrait of her dear wrinkles and white hair. Her hair has grown whiter, as has her husband's. We talked much of you, whose friendship is a very pleasant light on her old age." Rutson writes: --" Mr. Ruskin came to Laidlawstiel for two nights after I wrote to you. I was delighted with his courtesy and charming manner and his eloquence. We went to Ashestiel. You should have seen the reverent way in which he approached, with his hat off, an old man who had worked for Scott, and how he expressed his sense of the honour of seeing a man who...
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