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Letter from Arthur Cayley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Second part of the supplement to the two papers on mortality published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1820 and 1825' by Benjamin Gompertz

Reference number: RR/5/82

Date: 08 December 1864

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Regretfully declines to report on the paper due to an insufficient familiarity with the subject.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1864]

Reference number
RR/5/82
Earliest possible date
08 December 1864
Physical description
Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Letter from Arthur Cayley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Second part of the supplement to the two papers on mortality published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1820 and 1825' by Benjamin Gompertz, 08 December 1864, RR/5/82, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_82/letter-from-arthur-cayley-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-a-paper-second-part-of-the-supplement-to-the-two-papers-on-mortality-published-in-the-philosophical-transactions-in-1820-and-1825-by-benjamin-gompertz, accessed on 15 March 2025

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