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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. Sends his 1834 observations. Has received John Frederick William Herschel's weather observing instructions. Likely to accept the post of Astronomer Royal when John Pond resigns. Further remarks on new telescope and of E. J. Cooper's (near Sligo) - planetary disks - errors of divisions of circles. Possibility of small observatory in Upper Canada.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>10 July 1835</dc:date>
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