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  <dc:title>Letter from Robert Hall, Admiralty, to [William Spottiswoode], President of the Royal Society, Burlington House</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regretfully denying the Society's and Sir Wyville Thomson's application to use a small vessel for deep-sea investigations near the North coast of Scotland. 

[For Wyville Thomson's initial correspondence and the Society's reply, see related records.]
[The second page is on a separate paper, labelled MC/12/140a within the volume.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>13 January 1881</dc:date>
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