Supports G. W. Kitchin's request that JH write treatise on inductive logic for benefit of Oxford students.
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Supports G. W. Kitchin's request that JH write treatise on inductive logic for benefit of Oxford students.
Invites JH to stay at BP's home for the B.A.A.S. meeting 27 June. Notes the new museum opens at the same time.
Thanks JH for a memoir on the projection of a sphere. Expresses the wish that map-making, so neglected, be taken up thoroughly.
Apologizes for JH not getting copy of vol. 3 of BP's Infinitesimal Calculus. Promises to send one. Hopes to add another volume. Asks JH about some problems in probability theory.
Thanks JH for his lectures [Familiar Lectures] and praises his style. Has encouraged Clarendon Press to ask JH to write a short treatise on inductive logic.
JH having declined offer from Clarendon Press to write a treatise on inductive logic, [Thomas] Fowler of Oxford, who had earlier written a book on deductive logic, drafted an inductive logic, relying heavily of JH's Prelim. Discourse and Familiar Lectures. Asks JH to make suggestions on the manuscript.