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  <dc:title>Letter, from Elias Loomis to Sir John Herschel, dated at Yale College</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Is indebted to John Frederick William Herschel for a number of scientific memoirs, including the General Catalogue of Nebulae and the tract on Physical Geography, both of which he highly esteems. Sends via the Smithsonian his own pamphlet on the Aurora Borealis.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>17 December 1866</dc:date>
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