Harper's New Monthly Magazine,  7 (1883–84), 478–87.

Editor's Literary Record

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, Review

Publications reviewed:

Mulhall 1884

Subjects:

Statistics, Textbooks, Disciplinarity, Boundary Formation


    Gives a brief notice of what is claimed to be 'the first statistical dictionary ever published in any language' and suggests that the long absence of such a work 'may explain why so many philosophers deny this branch of study to be a science' (482).



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