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DCP-LETT-7390

From:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 175: 12
Summary:

CD elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2989

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 December 1870]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #60
Summary:

Thanks JH for writing. Complains of obstacles to his work. Happy to see JH recognizes work begun by Blaise Pascal and continued by famed mathematicians. Asks JH to respond to AQ's wish to dedicate his book [L'Anthropométric] to JH with only one word: 'J'accepte.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3110

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.275 (C: Académie belgique: #58)
Summary:

Is working on humans and their proportions. Encloses brochures. Wishes to dedicate L'Anthropométric to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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