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RefNoEL/K/24
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Gregory King to John Chamberlayne, dated at Queen's Street Westminster
CreatorKing; Gregory (1648-1712); English political economist; herald; genealogist; secretary to the commissioners for public accounts
Date27 April 1711
DescriptionObservations on John Arbuthnot's paper about proportions of births of males and females from 1629-1710
Read to the Royal Society on 10 May 1711
LanguageEnglish
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
Place originWestminster, London, England
Origin coordinates51.5, -0.11667
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialEL/A/54 for Arbuthnot's paper
EL/A/53 for Chamberlayne's views on this paper
RelatedRecordEL/A/53
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/89e09ea0-7cca-4e0f-a97b-bbd7742a5001
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CodePersonNameDates
NA6747Chamberlayne; John (c 1666 - 1723); translator and literary editorc 1666 - 1723
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