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From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.55
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.56
Summary:

Thanks JH for a memoir on the projection of a sphere. Expresses the wish that map-making, so neglected, be taken up thoroughly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Bartholomew Price
Date:
[21 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.358
Summary:

Thanks for sending vol. 4 of BP's Infinitesimal Calculus and for earlier sending vols. 1 and 2. Praises parts of vol. 4. Will another volume be forthcoming?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.57
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Bartholomew Price
Date:
[1 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.58 (C: RS:HS 24.126)
Summary:

Offers solutions to some of the problems in BP's Infinitesimal Calculus about which BP asked [see BP's 1865-10-28]. Raises a problem in probability theory regarding archery targets for BP.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.59
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0410; Reel 1087
Summary:

Supports G. W. Kitchin's request that JH write treatise on inductive logic for benefit of Oxford students.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.60
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project