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  <dc:title>Letter from W J Heaviside, Captain Royal Engineers, Kew Observatory, Richmond, to the Secretary of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Requesting copies of certain papers from the 'Philosophical Transactions', which contain descriptions of Kater's pendulum experiments. Heaviside hopes to establish Kew as a base station for pendulum operations, which have been carried out in India, in relation to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>29 November 1873</dc:date>
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