Augustus De Morgan

Abstract

THOSE readers of NATURE who are in the habit of examining the obituary column of the Times, will have regretted to see, on Monday morning last, the announcement of the death of the eminent mathematician, Augustus De Morgan. He had been seriously ill for the past two years. A disease of the kidneys, complicated with other disorders, had reduced him to a shadow of his former self, and rendered him incapable of any protracted exertion. This was the more trying as his mind retained all its former energy, and the doctors forbade his reading more than an hour or two in the day. He was, however, allowed to see his friends, and often amused and instructed them by the hour together from the stores of his extraordinary memory. During the last few weeks he had become considerably weaker, and on Saturday the 18th, at one o'clock in the afternoon, his spirit was released from the body which for so many months had been only a burden to it.