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  <dc:title>Letter, from John Wallis to Edmond Halley, dated at Oxford</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Stating that he had received an account of Halley's proposal to measure a degree of latitude on earth and that the Royal Society was giving 50 pounds for this venture
Details of several notices: a child with six fingers and six toes; a women with dropsy; corrections to 'Philosophical Transactions'; Halley's theory on compound motion; concerning books on the Chinese language
Read to the Royal Society on 24 November 1686</dc:description>
  <dc:date>8 November 1686</dc:date>
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