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From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.272
Summary:

Obtained and sent JH 2 copies of Physique sociale. Thanks JH for observations but they are too scientific for his lectures.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel3108

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.273 (C: Académie belgique: #56)
Summary:

Is trying to get JH 2 copies of Physique sociale. Discusses additions. Addresses JH's comments concerning power of a supreme being. Sends 19th volume of annals of observatory and AQ's work on international congress on statistics.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel3109

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.274 (C: Académie belgique: #54)
Summary:

Thanks JH for his positive judgement of his work. Mentions that [François] Moigno could only say that it was anti-religious. Another work on statistics has emerged: Versuch einer Sozialethik, 2nd. vol., by Alexander von Ochingen. In few days leaves for international conference on statistics.

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