Account of preserved dead bodies from part of a letter from Charles Balguy to Cromwell Mortimer
Reference number: EL/B3/29
Date: 1734
Description
The account is based on previous letters (EL/B3/27and EL/B3/28) about the dead bodies of a man and woman found in Derbyshire, which were preserved for 49 years
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 38, no 434, p 413
- Reference number
- EL/B3/29
- Earliest possible date
- 1734
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Charles Balguy, Account of preserved dead bodies from part of a letter from Charles Balguy to Cromwell Mortimer, 1734, EL/B3/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b3_29/account-of-preserved-dead-bodies-from-part-of-a-letter-from-charles-balguy-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 04 December 2025
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IV. An account of the dead bodies of a man and woman, which were preserved 49 years in the moors in Derbyshire ; being part of a letter from Dr. Charles Balguy of Peterborough, to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. R. S. Sec External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1733
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1733.0058
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Extract of a letter, from Charles Balguy [to the Royal Society]
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Cromwell Mortimer
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