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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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* The Ven. J. M. "Wilson, D.D., was Senior Wrangler in 1859, and the next year was elected to a Fellowship at St. John's Coll., Cam. For twenty years he was Mathematical and Science Master at Rugby. His eleven years as Head Master of Clifton College marked a period of great educational activity, during which his interest in the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching continued unabated. His Elementary Geometry passed through many editions and reprints. This was an able attempt to deal witli a problem that cannot yet be said to have received an entirely satisfactory solution. With the " Syllabus of the Association " it received an amusing castigation at the hands of that doughty defender of undiluted Euclid—C. L. Dodgson, better known, perhaps, to the younger generation as the author of Alice in Wonderland (v. "Euclid and his Modern Rivals," Act n. scene vi. and Act in. scene ii., in which Nostradamus—nostra, pi. of nostrum, ' a quack remedy,' and damus, ' we give'—may possibly be intended for Dr. Wilson himself). It is almost an impertinence to add that the re-appearance in our midst at the annual meeting of one of whom it might almost be said of his connection with the work of the Association—quorum pars magna fuit—has been to many of us not merely an awakening of memories of the early labours of nearly half a century ago, but a potent stimulus to renewed effort. [Ed.]
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