Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere

by John Willis Clark

[92]. Life, p. 48.

[93]. The Desert of the Exodus, 8vo. Cambridge, Deightons, 1871.

[94]. Desert of the Exodus, p. 325.

[95]. Desert of the Exodus, p. 503.

[96]. Life, pp. 120-125.

[97]. It is stated in Nature for July 16, 1883, in an article by Prof. W. Robertson Smith, Palmer’s successor at Cambridge, that Dr Wright was elected Fellow ‘without his knowledge or consent.’ We are able to state, on the authority of Dr Phillips himself, that Dr Wright was perfectly aware of the honour about to be conferred upon him.

[98]. The Catalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish MSS. in Trin. Coll. Camb. was not published until 1871; but the fact that it had been made was of course well known.

[99]. Cambridge University Reporter, 1872, p. 181.

[100]. Cambridge University Reporter, 1873, p. 142.

[101]. Grace of the Senate, April 29, 1875, confirming a Report of the Council, dated March 15. We believe that it was thought desirable to make the salary of the Professor of Arabic equal to that of the Professor of Sanskrit, who from the creation of the Professorship in 1867 received £500 a year out of the University Chest.