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Concerning the provenance of the portrait of Isaac Barrow.

41 Chalcot Villas, Adelaide Road NW - Has two points to make: 1: the drinking song is Ptolemaic ['this bottle's the sun of our table, how the bottle revolves round the table"] and recalls the Duke of Sussex singing it at a dinner party in 1826. 2: Barrow's method is pretty but does not show the full merit of Peter Metius' [Adriaan Anthonisz'] result. Explains why he thinks the phrasing of 1620 indicates that he did not publish and will give him the reference from his son Adrian Metius' book; will look further at Barrow: "I am not sure that Barrow is not reasoning in, as well as on, a circle".

Concerning the engraving of Isaac Barrow's picture in Hall for the edition of his works.

Six groups of material previously assigned letter classifications [by Isaac Todhunter?] as follows:
Items 1-36: "I" Papers &c. concerning Cambridge University Bills
Items 37-45: "II" Statue of Barrow in Trinity Chapel
Items 46-63: "III" Moral Philosophy
Items 64-88a: "IIIA" Fitzwilliam Controversy
Items 89-93: "IV" Lowndean Professorship
Items 94-143: "V" British Association, Cambridge

Consideration, £62. Witnessed by Oakley Gwynn and Jeremiah Prichard. Signed and sealed by A.

Acknowledges the receipt of £50 15s. for a moiety of £100 paid to Mr Bloss(?) for paper for the Works of Dr [Isaac] Barrow ‘by the Castle-Conger’ and 30s. for a book to print the said works from.