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  <dc:title>Letter from Richd [Richard] Assheton Cross, Secretary of State, Home Department, to [William Spottiswoode], President of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding his proposal to set up a Royal Commission on coal mines. Cross suggests the commission's chairman should have a scientific background. 

[For Cross' initial letter, see related records.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>31 January 1879</dc:date>
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