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  <dc:title>Letter from William Law, Treasury Chambers, to [Joseph Dalton Hooker], President of the Royal Society and to the Council</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding the suggestion to add geologists and naturalists to the expeditions to observe the transit of Venus on the islands of Rodriguez [Rodrigues] and Kerguelen's Land. Law estimates the cost of this and the Treasury's provisions for such appointments. 

[An enclosed copy letter from Robert Hall at the Admiralty to the Secretary of the Treasury is present, has an extent of 3p, and is labelled MC/10/72a within the volume.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>17 February 1874</dc:date>
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