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Board of Longitude -- Professorship of Mathematics at the East India College -- Professorship of Mathematics at Edinburgh -- Secretaryship of the Royal Society -- Master of the Mint -- Ditto -- Ditto -- Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages -- Ditto -- Commissioner of Railways -- Ditto -- Ditto Abolished.
At the commencement of life I had hoped that, whilst I indulged in the pursuits of science, I might derive from it some advantages for my family, or at least, that it might enable me to replace a small portion of the large expenditure, without which one of my most important discoveries could not be practically worked out.