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  <dc:title>Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James David Forbes, dated at Slough</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Congratulates James Forbes on obtaining, after some difficulty, the Chair of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh. Accepts offer to discuss meteorology with James Forbes's relation Leslie Melville[?], and hopes to mention his actinometer.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>20 February 1833</dc:date>
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