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Old times are changed, old manners gone!

There is a new Mathematical Society, and I am, at this present writing (1866), its first President. We are very high in the newest developements, and bid fair to take a place among the scientific establishments. Benjamin Grompertz, who was President of the old Society when it expired, was the link between the old and new body: he was a member of ours at his death. But not a drop of liquor is seen at our meetings, except a decanter of water: all our heavy is a fermentation of symbols and we do not draw it mild. There is no penny fine for reticence or occult science; and as to a song! not the ghost of a chance.

1826. The time may have come when the original documents connected with the discovery of Neptune may be worth revising. The following are extracts from the Athenæum of October 3 and October 17:—