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‘Letter to Dr John Bevis on the Dates found in London Bridge’. pp.420-1.

Reference code
SAL/10/10/076
Title
‘Letter to Dr John Bevis on the Dates found in London Bridge’. pp.420-1.
Date
9 November 1758
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
8 pp
Scope and content
Read 9 November 1758: Minute Book VIII, pp.84-5 (SAL/02/008/051).
Letter from Joseph Ames to John Bevis, MD, on the history of numbers, accompanied by three drawings (tipped in between pp.420 and 421), two of which are from inscriptions on old London Bridge.
This group is untitled in the Register; the title given here is taken from the contents list (SAL/10/10/097).
Creator
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759), bibliographer and antiquary
Bevis, John (1695-1771), doctor and scientist