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  <dc:title>Letter from William Thomson, The University Glasgow, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding his denied application for £60 from the Government Grant to fund the construction of a machine, which would solve simultaneous linear equations. Thomson hopes the Council could reconsider their decision and encloses drawings to illustrate the utility of the machinery. He also references another application for £70 to continue tidal investigations. 

[The second and third pages of the letter is on a separate paper, labelled MC/11/318a within the volume. The enclosed drawings have an extent of 3p, labelled MC/11/318b-318d.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>10 March 1879</dc:date>
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