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Paper, 'Of the aborigines of America' by Mark Catesby

Reference number: L&P/1/186

Date: 1743

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Subject: Demography

Read 12 May 1743.

Reference number
L&P/1/186
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1743
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Ink on paper
Page extent
24 pages
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Manuscript

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Mark Catesby

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Mark Catesby, Paper, 'Of the aborigines of America' by Mark Catesby, 1743, L&P/1/186, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_186/paper-of-the-aborigines-of-america-by-mark-catesby, accessed on 20 June 2025

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