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  <dc:title>Letter, from George Biddell Airy to Sir John Herschel, dated at Royal Observatory, Greenwich</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Past difficulties and faults with running of Royal Observatory. Hopes Halley's Comet has been observed. Further information on the telescope presented to Cambridge Observatory by Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland). James Challis has succeeded George Biddell Airy at Cambridge. Proposed new railway near Royal Observatory and its effect on observations.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>7 February 1836</dc:date>
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