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Reference numberPT/65/6
LevelItem
TitlePaper, '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 B [Benjamin] Gompertz
Date[1861]
DescriptionIncludes handwritten note to the printer on the first page of the manuscript from George Gabriel Stokes.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as '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'.

Received by the Royal Society on 19 June 1861. Read 20 June 1861.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 11, 1862.
Extent73p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1860.0082
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1862.0026
Related records in the catalogueRR/4/111
RR/4/112
RR/5/81
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA3427Gompertz; Benjamin (1779 - 1865)1779 - 1865
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist1819 - 1903
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