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Mortuary Practice

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  • Premature burial and how it may be prevented : with special reference to trance, catalepsy, and other forms of suspended animation / by William Tebb ... and Col. Edward Perry Vollum.
  • M0011786: Reproduction of an illustration depicting a cinerary urn and remains of charred bones found in Seamill, Ayreshire, Scotland from a publication
  • Modern cremation : its history and practice with information relating to the recently improved arrangements made by the Cremation Society of England / by Sir H. Thompson.
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Catalogue

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    Mortuary reform / by J. Neville Porter.

    Porter, J. Neville. | Date: 1890
    • Archives and manuscripts
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    M0011784: Reproduction of an illustration depicting a long chambered burial cairn in Midhowe, Rousay, Orkney

    | Date: 1951 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/104/86
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    The archaeology of death and burial / Mike Parker Pearson.

    Parker Pearson, Michael, 1957- | Date: 1999
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    'Cremation' : a lecture delivered before the Warrington Literary and Philosophical Society, on March 20th, 1893 / by C.E. Richmond.

    Richmond, Charles Ernest, -1915. | Date: 1893
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    Sanitary disposal of the dead : a lecture / delivered by C.N. Peirce.

    Peirce, C. N. | Date: [1891], ©1891
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