[64] Whewell’s Writings and Correspondence, ed. Todhunter, London, 1876, vol. II, p. 36.
[65] S. Douglas, Life of Whewell, London, 1881, p. 56.
[66] Alma Mater, London, 1827, vol. II, pp. 58–98.
[67] See Nature, vol. XXXV, 24 February 1887, pp. 397–399. See also his Autobiography, Cambridge, 1896, chapter ii.
[68] See grace, 14 November 1827.
[69] See grace, 21 May 1828, confirming a report of 27 March 1828.
[70] See grace of 31 October 1849.
[71] See grace of 6 April 1832.
[72] See grace of 30 May 1838.
[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.