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  <dc:title>Letter, from Adolphe Quetelet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Brussels</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Announces second volume of translation of John Frederick William Herschel's Light is out in Paris. Is sending a copy. Work progresses slowly. Problems because of revolution. Adolphe Quetelet's collaborator [P. F.] Verhulst is very ill. Will leave for Italy soon. Discusses his previous trip to Germany. Saw [William] Whewell. Has received Astronomical Society's memoirs.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>18 May 1830</dc:date>
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