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  <dc:title>Letter from Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square to Charles Blagden</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Uneasy that Phil Trans for Biot has not arrived, sends another copy.  Will tell Blagden the price of the oil used in the Apothecaries Hall after he has seen Brande.  Describes low temperatures and damage to gardens, "Covent Garden market is a desert".  Discusses his correspondence with General Humphries who was to send a drawing [of a sea serpent], his widow has sent some journals that describe its reappearance last summer.  Both Home and his other Vice President [of the RS] have gout so he is obliged to take the chair despite the frost.  Taking steps to put Kater's calculations into Biot's hands.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>18 January 1820</dc:date>
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