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  <dc:title>Copy letter, from James David Forbes to Sir John Herschel, dated at Edinburgh</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Copy letter in John Herschel's hand. Thanks for John Frederick William Herschel's letters and the paper on photography with special reference to the effects of heat. Was present at the R.S.L. during consideration of a national observatory. Would like John Frederick William Herschel's opinion. Is working on a supplementary report on meteorology.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>17 August 1840</dc:date>
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