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Paper, 'The population of Manchester' by Thomas Percival

Reference number: L&P/6/154

Date: 20 September 1775

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Subject: Demography

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A supplement to a paper, entitled, Observations on the Population of Manchester'

Read 14 December 1775

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L&P/6/154
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20 September 1775
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Percival

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Thomas Percival, Paper, 'The population of Manchester' by Thomas Percival, 20 September 1775, L&P/6/154, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_154/paper-the-population-of-manchester-by-thomas-percival, accessed on 14 June 2026

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