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That the future physician learns neither physic, anatomy, botany, chemistry, nor pharmacy, nothing of all that constitutes his science and enables him to practice his art, is more than notorious . . he must go elsewhere to learn everything that is essential. He wonders how mathematical science qualifies a man as a statesman, legislator or government officer, while he feels unfit to become even a treasury clerk. If the University will not “reflect that its duty and business . . is, to educate 12 Atkinson (1825b).

Steventon A. De Morgan (4th), W. Hopkins (7th) W. Selwyn (6th) 1831 S. Earnshaw T. Gaskin G. D. Heath S. Laing T. Cotterill 1833 1834 1835 A. Ellice P. Kelland H. Cotterill J. R. Birks H. H. Pratt R. Stevenson R. Rawle 1836 A. W. F. N. J. Sylvester E. J. M. L. G. Stokes A. C. W. G. Mould P. Frost H. C. T. Simpson F. B. Hopkins M. O’Brien C. Colson J. Woolley J. B. Mayor B. O. Budd 1845 S. Parkinson W. Thomson R. Peirson 1846 L. L. P. Wilson I. Todhunter R. F. J. Roughton, A. W. Vinter W. B. H. M.

An appeal to his estranged maternal grandfather, “a man of wayward and singular disposition”, gained him £100 to attend university; and Atkinson screwed up his courage to approach Isaac Milner, the Dean of Carlisle who was also the head of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Milner was impressed by the young man, and recommended that he apply to Queens’, rather than to Trinity or St John’s as had been Solomon’s ambition. But he warned him that he had no hope of gaining a fellowship at Queens’. Atkinson was admitted to Queens’ in June 1816, as a sizar.

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