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  <dc:title>Letter, from James David Forbes to Sir John Herschel, dated at Edinburgh</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. B.A.A.S. and Royal Society of Edinburgh have been approached to apply to the government for finance to send an observer and reflector to the Cape Observatory. Does John Frederick William Herschel think this advisable, with his knowledge of conditions at the Cape?</dc:description>
  <dc:date>23 November 1849</dc:date>
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