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  <dc:title>Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Nicolas Toinard, dated at London</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Concerning the desire to compile a natural history and whether Toinard knew of any French author who wrote on this topic; that Christopher Merret had begun a natural history of Britain; concerning Samuel Moreland's trumpet which was 6 feet long; that Oldenburg was going to try and obtain a model of William Petty's double-bottom ship (catamaran)</dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 February 1672</dc:date>
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