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Paper, 'Queries sent to a friend in Constantinople concerning the plague, population, more women than men, polygamy, inoculation, printing house' by Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/3/8

Date: 1755

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Subject: Anthropology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Queries sent to a friend in Constantinople; by Dr. Maty, F. R. S.; and answered by his Excellency James Porter, Esq; his Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, and F. R. S'

Read 10 April 1755

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L&P/3/8
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1755
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Paper, 'Queries sent to a friend in Constantinople concerning the plague, population, more women than men, polygamy, inoculation, printing house' by Matthew Maty, 1755, L&P/3/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_8/paper-queries-sent-to-a-friend-in-constantinople-concerning-the-plague-population-more-women-than-men-polygamy-inoculation-printing-house-by-matthew-maty, accessed on 25 January 2026

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