The unnotorious matter may be quite certain, the
notorious matter may have no foundation. Everything must stand on its
own evidence, as completely digested and examined.
Of such evidence the planetary influence has not a particle.
My intended short note has, in the course of writing, grown up into a
discourse of very unreasonable length; and it is possible that a large
portion of it has only increased obscurity. At any rate I can add
nothing, I believe, which can help to explain more fully my views on
this matter.
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In this year (1862, June 9th) Airy received the Honorary Degree of
LL.D. in the University of Cambridge. He was nominated by the Duke of
Devonshire, as appears from the following letter:
LISMORE CASTLE, IRELAND,
_April 19th, 1862_.
MY DEAR SIR,
It is proposed according to usage to confer a considerable number of
Honorary Degrees on the occasion of my first visit to Cambridge as
Chancellor of the University.
I hope that you will allow me to include your name in that portion of
the list which I have been invited to draw up.
The ceremony is fixed for the 10th of June.
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