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RefNoEC/1767/01
Previous numbersCert III, 2; A04035
LevelItem
TitleKirby, John Joshua: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationJoshua Kirby of Kew in the County of Surry [sic] Esq. Designer in Perspective to their Majesties, & Author of Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made easy, &c & of other considerable Improvements in that Science, being very desirous of the honor of Election into the Royal Society; We whose names are underwritten, recommend him on our personal Knowledge, as a Gentleman likely to prove a useful Member
ProposersEgmont; Greg Sharpe; Thos Forster; Joh Bevis; J Smeaton; Charles Frederick; T Anguish; Jona Watson; Leonard Morse; H Stebbing
PhysicalDescriptionScript is barely legible.
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Kirby, John Joshua: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA4893Kirby; John Joshua (1716 - 1774)1716 - 1774
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