BRACERS Record Detail for 55606
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BR comments on the exclusion of social sciences from the Royal Society. BR invites Hawtrey to propose himself for lunch: "There is a restaurant in the building, so that an unexpected visitor causes no inconvenience."
BR TO RALPH G. HAWTREY, 15 FEB. 1949
BRACERS 55606. TLS. McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell
18, Dorset House,
Gloucester Place,
N.W.1.
15th February, 1949
Dear Hawtrey,
My impression is that the Royal Society completely ignores the social sciences. I do not think it even admits psychology, except when it is a part of medicine. I suppose that the Secretary of the Royal Society would give you a list of the names of the psychologists, if any. I think the Royal Society has always interpreted its statutes rather narrowly[tn]
narrowly replaced thoroughly[/tn] and that if you[tn]
if you replaced to[/tn] include sociologists, you would run very little danger of overlapping, unless, perhaps, they had done something in the mathematical theory of statistics.
I am glad you liked the Reith lectures. It would be very nice to see you some time and if you are ever at leisure, perhaps you could propose yourself to lunch here. There is a restaurant in the building, so that an unexpected visitor causes no inconvenience.
Yours ever,
<signed> Russell.
