[68] For instance in a letter to Hooker (1817):—"Many thanks for your welcome note from Cambridge, and I am glad you like my Alma Mater, which I despise heartily as a place of education, but love from many most pleasant recollections."
[69] Autobiography p. 10.
[70] From a letter to W. D. Fox.
[71] No doubt in allusion to the title of Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
[72] Panagæus crux-major.
[73] Formerly Reader in Natural Philosophy at Durham University.
[74] Blane was afterwards, I believe, in the Life Guards; he was in the Crimean War, and afterwards Military Attaché at St. Petersburg. I am indebted to Mr. Hamilton for information about some of my father's contemporaries.
[75] Brother of Lord Sherbrooke.
[76] March 18, 1829.
[77] The postmark being Derby seems to show that the letter was written from his cousin, W. D. Fox's house, Osmaston, near Derby.