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  <dc:title>Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Wilhelm Struve</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Draft letter. Asks Wilhelm Struve for account of the performance of his new [Josef] Fraunhofer telescope. Corroborates Wilhelm Struve's double star motion data, except for 70 Ophiuchi, where John Frederick William Herschel and [James] South find no motion. Asks for observational targets and urges care in Wilhelm Struve's observational technique. Mentions Wilhelm Struve's intention to undertake celestial zone with [F. W.] Bessel. Describes [Henry] Kater's 'floating collimator.'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>24 January 1825</dc:date>
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