ve ever borne a
proud and grateful remembrance.

[Professor Sedgwick wrote as follows to my father:--]

FROM PROFESSOR SEDGWICK TO DR. SOMERVILLE.

TRINITY COLLEGE, _April, 1834_.

MY DEAR SOMERVILLE,

Your letter delighted us. I have ordered dinner on Thursday at 6-1/2
and shall have a small party to welcome you and Mrs. Somerville. In
order that we may not have to fight for you, we have been entering
on the best arrangements we can think of. On Tuesday you will, I
hope, dine with Peacock; on Wednesday with Whewell; on Thursday at
the Observatory. For Friday, Dr. Clarke, our Professor of Anatomy,
puts in a claim. For the other days of your visit we shall, D.V.,
find ample employment. A four-poster bed now (a thing utterly out of
our regular monastic system) will rear its head for you and Madame
in the chambers immediately below my own; and your handmaid may
safely rest her bones in a small inner chamber. Should Sheepshanks
return, we can stuff him into a lumber room of the observatory; but
of this there is no fear as I have written to him on the subject,
and he has no immediate intention of returning. You will of course
drive to the great gate of Trinity College, and my servant will be
in waiting at the Porter's lodge to show you the way to your
academic residence. We have no cannons at Trinity College, otherwise
we would fire a salute on your entry; we will however give you the
warmest greeting we can. Meanwhile give my best regards to Mrs. S.

And believe me most truly yours,
A. SEDGWICK.

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La Place had a profound veneration for Newton; he sent me a copy of his
"Systeme du Monde," and a letter, dated 15th August, 1824, in which he
says: "Je publie successivement les divers livres du cinquieme livre qui
doit terminer mon traite de 'Mecanique Celeste,' et dans cela je donne
l'analyse historique des recherches des geometres sur cette matiere,
cela m'a fait relire avec une attention particuliere l'ouvrage si
incomparable des principes mathematiques de la philosophie naturelle de
Newton, qui contient le germe de toutes ses recherches. Plus j'ai etudie
cet ouvrage plus il m'a paru admirable, en me transportant surtout a
l'epoque ou il a ete publie. Mais en meme tems que je sens l'elegance de
la methode synth