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  <dc:title>Copy notes, on establishing an observatory in Canada, by Francis Beaufort</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Handwritten copy note signed FB. Considered the lack of observatories on the East Coast of Canada, United States and South America and its necessity for establishing a standard meridian. Notes that establishing a small observatory in upper Canada would be a good start and that the St Helena instrument could be used there, as well as employing a competent and active astronomer.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>17 June 1835</dc:date>
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