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Add. MS a/204/122
Titre
James David Forbes to William Whewell
Date(s)
- 10 Jan. 1858 (Production)
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Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
4 pp
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Edinburgh - JDF hopes WW will travel another half a day and stay with him. He is currently lecturing three days a week. JDF is 'not at all indisposed to several of the proposed improvements' to Edinburgh University: 'But of course I am annoyed by the absurdities and misrepresentations of our eccentric (though not unamiable) professor of Greek. With Sir John McNeill's pamphlet I thoroughly agree. And not least in his denunciation of the competitive examination system for the civil service'.