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  <dc:title>Unpublished manuscript, regarding 'A curious fact' from John Bates to the President of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter received by the Royal Society as a result of a statement, titled 'A Curious Fact' (see AP/10 for description). Bates first quotes the paragraph from his local newspaper, Drakard's Stamford News, and then provides his solution to the problem, stating that a vacuum or rarefied space is formed by blowing through the tube.

Subject: Physics

Written by Bates in Wilson Street, Newark [Nottinghamshire] and addressed to the President of the Royal Society [Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex]. Postmarked 3 October 1833.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1 October 1833</dc:date>
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