[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR:"] SIEr - Ad eundem had given
place:to the (courtesy) comitatis causi degree for Cambridge and Dublin graduates when Mr. Harvey took that latter degree. And as the incorporation B.D. which Mr. Harvey, also I presume, took involves, I believe, three terms' residence, the comitatis camel must have been viewed as a sort of promissory note that Mr. Harvey would take that degree, transferring him to some College in Oxford. Else the presentation would have lapsed to the Bishop before the incorporation could be completed. The comitatis like the ad eundem, has been abolished since the present writer, for the sake of some local advantages, was granted that mere courtesy degree. If Mr. Paul states that Mr. Harvey took the latter degree he is even so in error, as it had then been exchanged for the former, the phrase ad eundem meaning more than comitatis cased, and sounding more like incorpora- tion, which latter, unlike the former, necessitates the RffihiatiOn to a College in Oxford. It is a trifle, but in biographical dic- tionaries exactitude rather than verisimilitude is desirable.—
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