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  <dc:title>Letter from Jos D [Joseph Dalton] Hooker and Henry N [Nottidge] Moseley, Royal Gardens, Kew, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Urging that an expedition should be sent out to collect specimens of natural products and anthropological information from various islands in the Atlantic, South Indian and Pacific Oceans. Hooker warns of the rapid 'Europeanization' of the islands and the subsequent loss of some indigenous plants and animals.

[The letter covers two papers, the second of which is labelled MC/13/8a within the volume.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>23 January 1884</dc:date>
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