The assistance which I have received in preparing this Memoir of Thomas Drummond is amply acknowledged in the text. It is proper, however, to define in a sentence or two the precise extent of it. In regard to his professional life (and not farther) I have had the hearty co-operation of Major-General Sir T. A. Larcom, the present Under Secretary in Ireland, of whose brief but able Memoir of Drummond I have also freely availed myself. Some papers put at my disposal by Sir J. F. W. Herschel illustrate this part of Mr Drummond's life and the first stages of his political employment; on which, also, some light is thrown by Miss Martineau, With regard to the Irish part of the life, I owe most to the Right Honourable Maziere Brady, the late Irish Lord Chancellor, who was Drummond's very intimate friend, and, successively, Law-adviser to the Chief Secretary, Solicitor-General, and Attorney-General, under the Mulgrave and Ebrington Administrations. The aid he has given me has been limited to the determination of obscure facts, and he is nowise responsible either for my opinions, or for the manner in which I have expressed them. Drummond's political correspondence during his tenure of office in Ireland, which was carried on with some of the most important political personages of the time, I have not had at my disposal. His home ure PAGK SURVEY OPERATIONS 1826-1828-SIMPLIFIED FORM OF THE HELIO- STATTHE COMPENSATION MEASURING BARS—THE COMPENSA- TION MICROSCOPES-THE INVENTION OF THE BARS-MEASURE- THE ORDNANCE SURVEY--MR DRUMMOND'S HEALTI-THE DRUM- LIGHT, AND LIGHTHOUSES LETTER BY CAPTAIN THE REFORM BILL OF 1832--DRUMMOND AND THE BOUNDARY COM- MISSION--CONTROVERSY AS TO SCHEDULES A AND B-THE MATHE- MATICS OF REPRESENTATION-LETTERS WRITTEN BY SIR JOHN HERSCHEL IN DEFENCE OF DRUMMONDA TRIBUTE TO DRUM- CHAPTER XI. THE GENERAL ELECTION AFTER THE PASSING OF THE REFORM BILLS—THE EDINBURGH AND LEITH DISTRICT ELECTIONS-POLI- TICAL versus SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS-DRUMMOND'S LAST SCIEN- TIFIC EMPLOYMENT-HIS SCIENTIFIC CAREER, 162-172 CHAPTER XII. MR DRUMMOND BECOMES PRIVATE SECRETARY TO LORD ALTHORP, CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER--MISS MARTINEAU'S RECOLLEC- TIONS OF HIM-A PENSION IS CONFERRED UPON HIM-HE BECOMES UNDER SECRETARY IN IRELAND-HIS MARRIAGE, 173-185 CHAPTER XIII. A REVIEW OF IRISH HISTORY, 186-242 CHAPTER XIV. IRELAND, 1835-1839--A NEW REGIME FOR IRELAND--THE MUL- GRAVE ERA-DRUMMOND'S PART IN THE ADMINISTRATION--A118 DUTIES AS UNDER SECRETARY HIS QUALIFICATIONS FOR HIS WORK IN THE GOVERNMENT-HIS ZEAL FOR THE REDEMPTION OF IRELAND, 243-257 CHAPTER XV. IRELAND, 1835-1839 SECRET, SECTARIAN, AND POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS IN IRELAND--ORANGEISM AND ORANGE PROCES- SIONS-RIBBONISM OR RIBANDISM—AGRARIAN OUTRAGES — FAC- REMEDIES FOR EVILS LEADING TO DISTURBANCES-EFFECT OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS A DIMINUTION OF CRIME-DIFFICULTIES IRELAND, 1835-1839—GROWING POPULAR RESPECT FOR THE LAW -EFFECT GIVEN TO THE EMANCIPATION—THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE GOVERNMENT-MR DRUMMOND AND COLONEL VERNER-THE BATTLE OF THE DIAMOND-LETTER OF LORD MORPETH TO COLONEL VERNER-ITS AUTHORSHIP_CLAMOURS OF THE AS- CENDANCY-POSITION OF THE MELBOURNE MINISTRY-A REVIEW OF LEGISLATION FOR IRELAND, 1834-40—IRISH POOR LAW- IRISH MUNICIPAL REFORM—THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION- COMPARATIVE FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THEIR MEA- SURES FOR IRELAND-ABANDONMENT OF THE APPROPRIATION CLAUSES— THE PETITION COMMITTEE” AND “THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION "-COUNTER AGITATIONS OF THE ASCENDANCY PARTY-MURDER OF MR COOPER-DRUMMOND AND THE TIP- PERARY MAGISTRATES-"PROPERTY HAS ITS DUTIES AS WELL AS ITS RIGHTS"-CONTROVERSY AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE TIPPERARY LETTER-MURDER OF LORD NORBURY-ATTACKS ON IRELAND, 1835-39—DRUMMOND'S SCHEME FOR REDEEMING IRE- LAND—THE CONSIDERATIONS ON WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED- APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMISSION ON IRISH RAILROADS IN 1836—THE COMMISSIONERS-DATA ON WHICH THEIR REPORT WAS FOUNDED-DRUMMOND'S SHARE IN THE REPORT-HIS AC- INDIRECT SOLUTION OF THE LAND-QUESTION RECOMMENDA- 341-401 SIDE OCCUPATIONS-THE IRISH BOUNDARY COMMISSION-ABOLI- TION OF THE HULKS AT CORK AND DUBLIN-SUPPRESSION OF MR DRUMMOND'S CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN 1835 AND 1840-HIS HEALTH AFFECTED BY OVER-WORK-HIS DOMESTIC LIFE-ISSU- ING OF THE RAILWAY REPORT-A VACATION TOUR POLITICAL OCCUPATIONS IN 1839—THE RODEN COMMITTEE-DRUMMOND'S LAST MEETING WITH EARL SPENCER-HIS PLANS FOR THE MR DRUMMOND'S HEALTH—HIS LAST LETTERS—HIS LAST ILLNESS APPENDIX. I, LETTER, SIR J. F. W. HERSCHEL TO MR DRUMMOND'S MOTHER, II, EARLY DISCOVERIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE LIME III. INSTRUCTIONS AS TO CHALLENGING JURORS IN IRELAND, ISSUED IN 1839 BY THE RIGHT HON. MAZIERE BRADY, 444-449 IV. NOTE ON THE IRISH CONSTABULARY FORCE, V. THE CHARGES AGAINST THE IRISH GOVERNMENT AS TO THE VI. STATE OF THE LAW IN IRELAND AS TO ILLEGAL SOCIETIES, 461-464 VII. DR HANCOCK ON THE FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE IRISH RAIL- |