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  <dc:title>Copy of a letter from General William Roy, Argyll Street, to Nevil Maskylne</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Roy remonstrates with Maskelyne for having held on to the 'Memoire' by Cassini de Thury for so long that it could not be published as had been the intention shortly after the publication of his (Roy's) paper on the measurement of the base on Hounslow Heath.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>11 December 1786</dc:date>
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