From Adolphe Quetelet   [22 August 1869]

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.

Letter details

Record number

Herschel3109

From

Adolphe Quetelet

To

Sir John Herschel

Date

[22 August 1869]

Sent from

Brussels

Source of text

RS:HS 14.274 (C: Académie belgique: #54)

Physical description

ALS 3pp (French)

Additional information

Contributor

John Herschel Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]