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Letter from Benjamin Gompertz, on a paper 'A supplement to two papers published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, "On the science connected with human mortality;" the one published in 1820, and the other in 1825' by Benjamin Gompertz to George Gabriel Stokes

Reference number: RR/5/80

Date: 21 December 1862

Description

Requests permission to withdraw his paper and resubmit an amended version.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1862]

Reference number
RR/5/80
Earliest possible date
21 December 1862
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from Benjamin Gompertz, on a paper 'A supplement to two papers published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, "On the science connected with human mortality;" the one published in 1820, and the other in 1825' by Benjamin Gompertz to George Gabriel Stokes, 21 December 1862, RR/5/80, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_80/letter-from-benjamin-gompertz-on-a-paper-a-supplement-to-two-papers-published-in-the-transactions-of-the-royal-society-on-the-science-connected-with-human-mortality-the-one-published-in-1820-and-the-other-in-1825-by-benjamin-gompertz-to-george-gabriel-stokes, accessed on 11 November 2024

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