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  <dc:title>Letter from J. Sanderson, Foreign Office, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Is directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to acknowledge the receipt of the Royal Society's letter, requesting a formal application be made to the Russian Government for the loan of a 2.5 metre geodetic standard and necessary apparatus (for the expedition from Cape Town, led by Dr Rubin). Informs them that a letter will be sent to His Majesty's Ambassador in St Petersburg.  </dc:description>
  <dc:date>13 June 1903</dc:date>
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