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Letter, 'People of Great Shefford, Berks' from Richard Forster to the Royal Society

Reference number: L&P/3/265

Date: 08 July 1757

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Subject: Anthropology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An extract of the register of the parish of Great Shefford, near Lamborne, in Berkshire, for ten years: With observations on the same: in a letter to Tho. Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S. from the Rev. Mr. Richard Forster, Rector of Great Shefford'

Read 17 November 1757

Reference number
L&P/3/265
Earliest possible date
08 July 1757
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'People of Great Shefford, Berks' from Richard Forster to the Royal Society, 08 July 1757, L&P/3/265, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_265/letter-people-of-great-shefford-berks-from-richard-forster-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 02 December 2024

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