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  <dc:title>Letter, from Thomas I. M. Forster to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bruges</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Has sent a pamphlet on Education to the Royal Society [of London] to be transmitted to John Frederick William Herschel. Explains the mechanism of his new anemometer. Is most interested in the causes of falling stars and their relation to meteorites. Has he seen [Robert?] Hunt's book on Light? Does he know where a description of William Parsons' (3rd Earl of Rosse) large telescope is to be found?</dc:description>
  <dc:date>23 September 1844</dc:date>
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