BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF ARTHUR CAYLEY. 
Spedding, and Professor Clerk Maxwell; and on 11th October, 1875, he was made an 
ordinary Fellow, a position which he retained for the rest of his life. His friends 
subscribed for a presentation portrait,* painted by Lowes Dickenson in 1874; it now 
hangs in the College Hall. The simplest of inscriptions is on its frame, but the 
humorous lines which Clerk Maxwelli* wrote at the time should not readily be for 
gotten. The graver element, seldom absent from his verses, is not entirely repressed 
even by his wit, and the lines were based upon a deep admiration of the man 
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‘ Whose soul, too large for vulgar space, 
In n dimensions flourished unrestricted.” 
His bust, by Mr. Henry Wiles, was given to Trinity College by a donor who wished 
to remain anonymous. It was placed in the beautiful library of the College on 3rd 
December, 1888, an honour that has been conferred during life in only two other 
cases—Tennyson and Sedgwick. 
After the new statutes came into operation, the Senate on 27th May, 1886, de 
cided that the Sadlerian Professorship should at once be made subject to the improved 
provisions, a decision which, though it increased the amount of lecturing required, 
gave him the benefit of the full stipend. At the same time the Lucasian Professor 
ship, held by Professor Stokes, was also made subject to the new statutes; and it 
was currently believed that the Lowndean Professorship would have been included in 
the proposal had Professor Adams been willing to have the change made. There was 
a wish on the part of members of the University to give some recognition to the 
glory conferred upon the mathematical school by Stokes, Adams, and Cayley; one 
possibility remained. The opportunity came in 1888 when Prince Edward (as he was 
known in Cambridge), afterwards Duke of Clarence, received the degree of LL.D. 
Such an occasion is customarily marked by the conferment of a number of honorary 
degrees upon distinguished men; among them, on this particular occasion, were the 
three professors who had been colleagues for a quarter of a century. On the 9th of 
June in that year a great assembly gathered to see these degrees conferred upon 
the recipients. It need hardly be said that the men singled out for honour received 
ovations on being presented; among the most enthusiastic ovations were those accorded 
to the three professors. 
Nor were external bodies and learned societies, both at home and abroad, backward 
in recognising the merits of his work; the honours he received were numerous and 
came from all quarters. Honorary degrees were conferred upon him by several univer 
sities as well as his own, among them being Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh, Gottingen, 
Heidelberg, Leyden, and Bologna. President Carnot nominated him an Officer of the 
Legion of Honour. He was either a Fellow or a foreign corresponding member of most 
of the scientific societies of the Continent, among them being the French Institute, the 
Academies of Berlin, Gottingen, St. Petersburg, Milan, Rome, Leyden, Upsala, and 
Hungary. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Royal Irish 
* A photographic reproduction of the portrait is prefixed to vol. vi. of the G. M. P. 
f See Campbell and Garnett’s Life of James Clerk Maxwell, p. 636.