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Paper, 'Calculation of the population of Bristol, from the number of burials' by John Browning

Reference number: L&P/2/402

Date: 1753

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Subject: Anthropology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The number of people in the city of Bristol, calculated from the burials for ten years successive, and also from the number of houses'

Read 25 January 1753

Reference number
L&P/2/402
Earliest possible date
1753
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Calculation of the population of Bristol, from the number of burials' by John Browning, 1753, L&P/2/402, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_402/paper-calculation-of-the-population-of-bristol-from-the-number-of-burials-by-john-browning, accessed on 08 November 2024

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