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Beckett provides details of three individuals with the surname Green living in Wiltshire [England] who each lived over one hundred years.

Subject: Physiology

Read to the Royal Society on 8 November 1722.

Reference number
CLP/13/15
Earliest possible date
1722
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Beckett

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William Beckett, Paper, 'Account of three long lived persons' by Mr [William] Beckett, 1722, CLP/13/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_13_15/paper-account-of-three-long-lived-persons-by-mr-william-beckett, accessed on 05 October 2024

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