[Footnote 48: See graces of 19, 20 March 1779.] [Footnote 49: Notice issued by the vice-chancellor, dated 19 May 1779.] [Footnote 50: The _Challis Manuscripts_, III, 61. There are two copies almost identical, one dated 1785, the other 1786. Probably the paper printed in the text was set in 1786.] [Footnote 51: H. Gunning, _Reminiscences_, second edition, London, 1855, vol. I, p. 82.] [Footnote 52: C. Wordsworth, _Scholae Academicae_, Cambridge, 1877, pp. 322-323.] [Footnote 53: H. Gunning, _Reminiscences_, second edition, London, 1855, vol. I, p. 182.] [Footnote 54: See grace of 8 April 1791.] [Footnote 55: Communicated by the moderators to fathers of colleges on 18 January 1799, and agreed to by the latter.] [Footnote 56: C. Wordsworth, _Scholae Academicae_, Cambridge, 1817, p. 123.] [Footnote 57: _Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson_, London, 1817, p. 19.] [Footnote 58: _Memoir of A. De Morgan_, London, 1882, pp. 387-392.] [Footnote 59: See graces, 15 December 1808.] [Footnote 60: S. Douglas, _Life of W. Whewell_, London, 1881, p. 20.] [Footnote 61: For a contemporary account of this, see C.A. Bristed, _Five Years in an English University_, New York, 1852, pp. 233-239.] [Footnote 62: See _ex. gr._ the grace of 14 November 1827, referred to below.] [Footnote 63: _Proceedings of the Royal Society_, London, 1859, vol. IX, pp. 538-539.] [Footnote 64: _Whewell's Writings and Correspondence_, ed. Todhunter, London, 1876, vol. II, p. 36.] [Footnote 65: S. Douglas, _Life of Whewell_, London, 1881, p. 56.] [Footnote 66: _Alma Mater_, London, 1827, vol. II, pp. 58-98.] [Footnote 67: See _Nature_, vol. XXXV, 24 February 1887, pp. 397-399. See also his _Autobiography_, Cambridge, 1896, chapter ii.] [Footnote 68: See grace, 14 November 1827.] [Footnote 69: See grace, 21 May 1828, confirming a report of 27 March 1828.] [Footnote 70: See grace of 31 October 1849.] [Footnote 71: See grace of 6 April 1832.] [Footnote 72: See grace of 30 May 1838.] [Footnote 73: Under a badly-worded grace passed on 11 May 1842, on the recommendation of a syndicate on theological studies, candidates for mathematical honours were, after 1846, required to attend the poll examination on Paley's _Moral Philosophy_, the new testament and ecclesiastical history. This had not been the intention of the senate, and on 14 March 1855, a grace was passed making this clear.] [Footnote 74: See grace of 13 May 1846, confirming a report of 23 March 1846.] [Footnote 75: See grace of 31 October 1848.] [Footnote 76: See grace of 2 June 1868. It was carried by a majority of only five in a house of 75.] [Footnote 77: See graces of 17 May 1877; 29 May 1878; and 21 November 1878; and the _Cambridge University Reporter_, 2 April, 14 May, 4 June, 29 October, 12 November, and 26 November 1878.] [Footnote 78: See graces of 13 December 1883; 12 June 1884; 10 February 1885; 29 October 1885; and 1 June 1886.]