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  <dc:title>Minutes of a Committee for examining the Specimens of Granite intended to be used in rebuilding London Bridge</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Present at the meeting:  the president in the chair;  Mr Brande;  Mr Buckland;  Mr Chantrey;  &lt;r Combe;  Mr Greenhoug;  Mr HAtchett;  Mr Herschel;  Mr Konig;  Mr Pepys;  Mr Warburton;  Dr Wollaston

Minutes of last meeting wre read

 ' Resolved, that the following pecimens of Granite be recommended for the Exterior of the new London Bridge viz. 1st the Blue Gray Granite of Aberdeen without Pyrites similar to that from Dancing Caerne and Rubislaw  2dly The Granite of Heister  [?] in Devonshire and the fine grained Granite from Dunleavy

Resolved also that in respect to the Granite to be employed in the Interior of the Bridge so many of the Samples before the Committee appear adapted to the purpose that the Committee advise that the selection f such Granites be donfided to the judgment of the Architect. '</dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 January 1824</dc:date>
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