[252] From 1823 to 1852 it was edited by I. C. Robertson; from 1852 to 1857 by R. A. Brooman; and from 1857 to 1863 by Brooman and E. J. Reed.
[253] Sir James Ivory (1765-1842) was, as a young man, manager of a flax mill in Scotland. In 1804 he was made professor of mathematics at the Royal Military College, then at Marlow and later at Sandhurst. He was deeply interested in mathematical physics, and there is a theorem on the attraction of ellipsoids that bears his name. He was awarded three medals of the Royal Society, and was knighted together with Herschel and Brewster, in 1831.
[254] See Vol. I, page 56, note 1 {64}.
[255] See Vol. I, page 153, note 5 {338}.
[256] See Vol. I, page 309, note 2 {670}.
[257] See Vol. I, page 87, note 4 {133}.
[258] George Canning (1770-1857), the Tory statesman and friend of Scott, was much interested in founding the Quarterly Review (1808) and was a contributor to its pages.
[259] See Vol. I, page 186, note 14 {418}.
[260] See Vol. II, page 141, note [252].
[261] De Morgan had a number of excellent articles in this publication.