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PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES into the
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By order of the Board of Directors.
A. DURNFORD, Secretary.

THE HOME COUNTIES AND GENERAL
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29, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London.
Every description of risk (home or foreign) connected with Life
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Medical Mears—Robert Ferguson, AM; sir John Forbes.
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A.D. 1720.

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Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor.
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George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Deputy-Governor.

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Henry Nelson, Esq.
Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart.
Abraham George Robarta, Esq.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Thomas Smith, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
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