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  <dc:title>Copy translatinof part of a letter from Monsieur de L'Isle (de la Croyere), St Petersburg, to John Bevis</dc:title>
  <dc:description> ' Translation of Part of a Letter from Monsieur de L'Isle (de la Croyere) to Doctor Bevis, giving Notice of his intended Journey to the Mouth of the River Oby; in order to observe Mercury's Transit over the Sun on April 21 to May 2 2740 : and desiring the  English Astronomers to observe the Moon's Passage over the Meridien etc, for a month before and after, for reducing his Observation to the Meridien of England. '

Read to the Royal Socity on 13 March 1739/1740</dc:description>
  <dc:date>23 February 1740</dc:date>
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