Letter, from Reverend Joseph Wasse to James Jurin, dated at Aynho

Reference number: EL/W3/139

Date: 19 September 1724

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Concerning his experiment to determine differences in human heights and sedentariness; discusses the skeleton found in a mound at King's Sutton near Astrop, Northamptonshire (with figures)

Reference number: EL/W3/139
Earliest possible date: 19 September 1724
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Joseph Wasse, Letter, from Reverend Joseph Wasse to James Jurin, dated at Aynho, 19 September 1724, EL/W3/139, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_139/letter-from-reverend-joseph-wasse-to-james-jurin-dated-at-aynho, accessed on 03 October 2024

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters W3
1642-1736 Reference number: EL/W3

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