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Authorised form of nameQuetelet; Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796 - 1874)
Other forms of nameLambert-Adolphe-Jacques
Dates1796 - 1874
NationalityBelgian
Place of birthGhent, Belgium
Date of birth22 February 1796
Place of deathBrussels, Belgium
Date of death17 February 1874
Research fieldStatistics
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election30/05/1839
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
Altname from certidicate
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1874-1875 vol 23 pp xi-xvii
Notes:
Certificate: ink blot on list of proposers
References:
D Carr Agnew, 'Robert Fitzroy and the myth of 'Marsden Square': Transatlantic rivalries in early marine meteorology' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 21-46
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/24606918
Royal Society codeNA2866
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
MS/257/3/277Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to [Edward Sabine]6 February 1828
MS/257/3/303Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine20 May [1796-1874]
M/199Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
MS/257/3/279Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine23 July 1828
MS/257/3/280Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to [Edward Sabine]7 December 1829
MM/17/4Letter from LAJ Quetelet, Brussels, to William Parsons, 3rd Earl RosseJuly 1854
MS/257/3/284Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine12 June 1829
MS/257/3/288Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine24 July 1832
MC/4/300Letter from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, to [Charles Richard] Weld, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society 20 November 1849
IM/003712Quetelet, Lambert Adolophe Jacquesnd
IM/003711Quetelet, Lambert Adolophe Jacquesnd
MC/9/369Letter from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Brussels, to [William Hallowes] Miller, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society, London24 April 1872
MS/257/3/287Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine18 March 1830
MS/426/104Copy letter from [Charles Richard Weld] the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mons [Lambert Adolphe Jacques] Quetelet; Bruxelles [Brussels, Belgium]7 November 1844
MS/426/113Copy letter from [Charles Richard Weld] the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mons [Lambert Adolphe Jacques] Quetelet, Academie Royale des Sciences, Bruxelles [Brussels, Belgium]18 December 1844
MS/426/183Copy letter from Edward Sabine, Foreign Secretary fo the Royal Society; to Mons. [Lambert Adolphe Jacques] Quetelet, Bruxelles [Brussels, Belgium]16 January 1846
MS/257/3/275Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Kensington to Edward Sabine26 October 1827
MS/257/3/306Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine18 September [1796-1874]
EC/1839/30Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/3Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1839-1843
MC/3/59Letter from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Secrétaire perpètuel de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres, to Captain [William Henry] Smyth, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society2 December 1839
MC/4Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1844-1850
MC/5/220Letter from Andrés Poey, Hotel Mazarin, 54 rue Mazarine, Paris, to [Lord Wrottesley], President of the Royal Society20 January 1856
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
MC/6/213Letter from F [Félix] Stappaerts, Royal Academy of Science, Humanities, and the Arts of Belgium, Brussels, to [Charles Richard] Weld, Secretary of the Royal Society21 March 1862
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
MC/7/250Letter from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Royal Academy of Science, Humanities, and the Arts, Brussels, to W [Walter] White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, London18 August 1865
MC/7/286Letter from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Royal Academy of Science, Humanities, and the Arts, Brussels, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London28 December 1865
MC/7/346Letter from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Royal Academy of Science, Humanities, and the Arts, Brussels, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London26 July 1866
MC/7Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1864-1866
MS/257/3/274Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine16 January 1821
MC/9/329Letter from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Brussels, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London15 February 1872
MC/9/519Letter from [Adolphe] Quetelet, Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London17 March 1873
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MC/10/77Letter from A [Adolphe] Quetelet, Brussels, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London25 February 1874
MS/257/3/300Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine14 March 1849
MS/257/3/281Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine28 January 1829
MS/257/3/295Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine27 December 1839
MS/257/3/298Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine12 November 1841
MS/257/3/294Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine17 December 1839
MS/257/3/289Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine19 August 1837
MS/257/3/299Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine8 October 1844
MS/257/3/297Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine19 February 1840
MS/257/3/293Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine2 December 1839
MS/257/3/301Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine29 March 1849
MS/257/3/302Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine9 February [1796-1874]
MS/257/3/283Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine29 May 1829
MS/257/3/285Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine1 July 1829
MS/257/3/296Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine11 January 1840
MS/257/3/286Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine16 October 1829
MS/257/3/282Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine1 March 1829
MS/257/3/305Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine23 May [1796-1874]
MS/257/3/304Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine9 February [1796-1874]
MS/257/3/276Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine19 December 1827
MS/257/3/307Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine29 November [1796-1874]
MS/257/3/308Extract of a letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to [Edward Sabine]19th century
MS/257/3/278Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine31 March 1828
MS/257/3/290Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to [Francis] Beaufort21 October 1837
MS/257/3/292Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to Edward Sabine12 May 1839
MS/257/3/291Letter from Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Brussels to [Edward Sabine]21 August 1838
HS/14/268Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels28 August 1868
HS/14/271Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels28 December 1868
HS/14/259Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels1 October 1863
HS/14/217Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels2 December 1839
HS/14/273Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels10 August 1869
HS/14/224Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels28 July 1841
HS/14/257Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels27 June 1863
HS/14/240Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels31 December 1841
HS/14/209Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels1 March 1837
HS/14/213Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels28 December 1838
HS/14/194Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels8 December 1826
HS/14/262Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels4 October 1865
HS/14/208Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels9 February 1836
HS/14/210Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels19 November 1837
HS/14/196Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at London11 September 1827
HS/14/243Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels5 May 1842
HS/14/246Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels5 February 1844
HS/14/207Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels23 August 1834
HS/14/200Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels2 June 1829
HS/14/266Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels6 December 1867
HS/14/215Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels5 June 1839
HS/14/197Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Kensington Observatory24 October 1827
HS/14/270Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels2 October 1868
HS/14/205Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels14 March 1833
HS/14/195Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels30 May 1827
HS/14/244Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels12 November 1842
HS/14/251Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels11 December 1852
HS/14/256Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels6 April 1863
HS/14/252Copy of abstract of letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels23 January 1853
HS/14/221Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels19 January 1841
HS/14/247Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels8 October 1844
HS/14/261Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels14 August 1865
HS/14/227Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels12 November 1841
HS/14/223Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels9 July 1841
HS/14/263Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels29 September 1866
HS/14/220Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels18 September 1840
HS/14/214Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels8 February 1838
HS/14/267Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels21 June 1868
HS/14/249Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels17 August 1847
HS/14/199Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels20 May 1829
HS/14/269Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels12 September 1868
HS/14/258Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels16 August 1863
HS/14/248Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels21 October 1845
HS/14/218Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels19 February 1840
HS/14/198Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels24 January 1828
HS/14/228Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels29 November 1841
HS/14/203Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels18 May 1830
HS/14/250Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels22 August 1848
HS/14/276Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels14 July 1871
HS/14/245Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels11 September 1843
HS/14/274Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels22 August 1869
HS/14/226Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels20 September 1841
HS/14/254Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels12 August 1862
HS/14/219Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels3 June 1840
HS/14/255Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels23 February 1863
HS/14/260Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels18 March 1865
HS/14/272Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels3 February 1869
HS/14/216Copy letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels5 August 1839
HS/14/222Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels11 June 1841
HS/14/241Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels7 February 1842
HS/14/201Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels1829
HS/14/225Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at London11 August 1841
HS/14/253Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels25 July 1861
HS/14/242Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels14 March 1842
HS/14/275Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels29 December 1870
HS/14/212Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels6 November 1838
HS/25/5/7Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adolphe Quetelet, dated at Feldhausen near Wynberg8 June 1837
HS/14/265Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels24 December 1866
HS/14/206Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels15 February 1834
HS/14/277Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at BrusselsMarch 1835
HS/14/204Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels26 June 1831
HS/14/264Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels22 November 1866
HS/14/202Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels3 May 1830
HS/14/211Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels1 October 1837
HS/14/229Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adolphe Quetelet, dated at Collingwood3 December 1841
HS/22/103Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Adolphe Quetelet, dated at Collingwood3 December 1841
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