As offered in [?]'s letter of 9 Aug. 1832, JH accepts position as member of B.A.A.S. Council.
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As offered in [?]'s letter of 9 Aug. 1832, JH accepts position as member of B.A.A.S. Council.
Gives permission to do anything with JH's letter; asks to be excused to J. W. Lubbock for not having written back.
Hopes for conveyance to Cambridge in covered vehicle for meeting of J. W. Lubbock's committee.
Compares 'Products' principle with 'Sums' principle for numerical analysis of taxation in several boroughs. JH's opinion favoring Sums was quoted 'in the Assembly.'
Please send vol. 2 of Nathaniel Bowditch's translation of P. S. Laplace's Mécanique céleste.
Responds to an unidentified mathematician who had written a critique of ideas put forward by Thomas Drummond, regarding whether to estimate the importance of various boroughs primarily in terms of population or in terms of the wealth of the population.