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  <dc:title>Letter from J. Sanderson, Foreign Office, to the Secretary of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Informs the Royal Society that the Chief of the Russian General Staff has given consent for the loan of a 2.5 metre [geodetic] standard and necessary apparatus to the Royal Society, for Dr Rubin's expedition [to measure the geodetic arc of meridian in Africa]. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>8 August 1903</dc:date>
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