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Subject: Anthropology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Mr. James Dodson to Mr. John Robertson, F. R. S. concerning an improvement of the bills of mortality'

Read 26 January 1752

Reference number
L&P/2/253
Earliest possible date
13 January 1752
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Dodson

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James Dodson, Letter, 'Of an improvement in the bills of mortality' from James Dodson to John Robertson, 13 January 1752, L&P/2/253, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_253/letter-of-an-improvement-in-the-bills-of-mortality-from-james-dodson-to-john-robertson, accessed on 16 January 2026

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