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  <dc:title>Letter, from George Biddell Airy to Sir John Herschel, dated at Observatory, Cambridge</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Observations on the weather of the past winter. 42 Virginis. Printing of [Stephen] Groombridge's catalogue. Has written article for the Penny Cyclopaedia. Refracted light in prisms. Machine for polarization of the sky. Petition to Parliament to abolish religious tests for degrees at Cambridge.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>24 April 1834</dc:date>
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