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Letter, 'Population in Manchester and adjacent places' from Thomas Percival to Samuel Horsley

Reference number: L&P/6/5

Date: 15 February 1774

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Subject: Anthropology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on the state of population in Manchester, and other adjacent places'

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L&P/6/5
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15 February 1774
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Thomas Percival

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Thomas Percival, Letter, 'Population in Manchester and adjacent places' from Thomas Percival to Samuel Horsley, 15 February 1774, L&P/6/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_5/letter-population-in-manchester-and-adjacent-places-from-thomas-percival-to-samuel-horsley, accessed on 04 December 2024

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