From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1842]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 258)
Summary:
Gives an account of his father’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Gives an account of his father’s illness.
Sends small work on foundations of thought, with citation of JH's article in Quarterly [Review]. Note on geometry of planes.
Gives reason for writing [Principles of Geometric Demonstration (1844)]. Plans later edition in which HW will cite JH's statement in [Quarterly Review]. Role of sense experience in axioms.
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.