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AT last the third and final volume of Graves's life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton has seen the light. It was our pleasure in former numbers of NATURE (vols. xxviii. p. 1, and xxxii. p. 619) to have reviewed the two earlier volumes, and we have now to congratulate the University of Dublin on the completion of an adequate biography of the most illustrious student that has ever issued from its halls. This present volume, of which we are now to speak, is as portly as its predecessors. It contains not less than 673 pages, and a very important feature of the work is the correspondence between Hamilton and De Morgan, which occupies more than half of the entire bulk.
Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton.
By Robert Percival Graves Vol. III. “Dublin University Press Series.” (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co. 1889.)
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The Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton. Nature 40, 614–618 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040614a0
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