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I HAVE read with great interest the papers by Mr. Glaisher in NATURE of December 2, 18, and 30, 1886 (pp. 101, 153, and 199), entitled “The Mathematical Tripos.” Through the period common to Mr. Glaisher's notes and my recollections, I believe that we are strictly in agreement. I am able, however, to supply some little histories (I wish these had been more numerous and more certain) relating to transactions several years earlier than those known, personally, to Mr. Glaisher, and I am desirous that their memory should not be totally lost. There are now few persons, perhaps none, whose recollections of the University of Cambridge and of Trinity College go so far back as my own.
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AIRY, G. On the Earlier Tripos of the University of Cambridge . Nature 35, 397–399 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035397a0
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