From William Clark   14 March 1852

My dear Henslow

I am ashamed to say that I had totally forgotten your desire to hear the results of our Exam ⁿ– when your note fortunately crossed my eye this morning. The following is a copy of what appeared at Deightons

Natural Sciences Tripos – 1852

1 ^st Class (alphabetically)

Yool – Trin Coll

Young – Chr. Coll

2 ^nd Class

A.Wilson. Trin Coll (G)*

* distinguished for Geology.

On the other side you will see how the men performed in each subject.

yrs very truly | Wm Clark

[On reverse:]

Botany | Geology | Mineralogy | Gen. ^l Paper | Physiol ^y | Comp. Anat | Chemist. |Total

Young 46 52 3 44 17 15 1 178

Yool 21 22 4 45 8 10 38 148

Wilson 0 75 0 15 0 5 7 102

Though Young had the greatest number of marks, the general impression was that Yool was the better man.