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  <dc:title>Letter, from Richard Anthony Proctor to Sir John Herschel, dated at 5 Trigon Road, Kennington</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Reports finding, while preparing a star atlas, that bright stars appear to be very dense in a region associated with the Milky Way but centered on the greater Magellanic Cloud. Because of a coming lecture on stellar distribution, 'I ... am saturating myself with Herschelian astronomy.'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>26 March 1870</dc:date>
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