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  <dc:title>Draft letter from John Frederick William Herschel to George Biddell Airy, dated at Slough</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Draft in John Herschel's hand. Comments on Airy's and Edward Sabine's work on the figure of the earth; describes some results Herschel obtained from using quartz for polarizing light, and is unhappy with the proposed recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society medal, M. C. T. Damoiseau, whose lunar theory Herschel cannot understand.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>29 December 1830</dc:date>
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