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Subject: Anthropology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Of the increase and mortality of the inhabitants of the Island of Madeira. By Dr. Thomas Heberden, F. R. S'

Read 26 Novemebr 1767

Reference number
L&P/4/412
Earliest possible date
1767
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Heberden

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Thomas Heberden, Paper, 'Of the increase and mortality in Madeira' by Thomas Heberden, 1767, L&P/4/412, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_412/paper-of-the-increase-and-mortality-in-madeira-by-thomas-heberden, accessed on 15 February 2025

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