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  <dc:title>Letter from [Reginald Earle] Welby, Treasury Chambers, to the President of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Acknowledges receipt of [Michael] Foster's letter [NLB/2/13], which proposed Mr Alexander Buchan should be appointed to fill a vacancy in the Meteorological Council. Refers to Buchan's current role as Inspector of the Meteorological Stations in Scotland and his annual salary from the parliamentary grant.Welby informs the Royal Society that their Lordships have no objeciton to the arrangment in which Buchan 'will continue to draw the salary of his Inspectorship besides remuneration as a member of the Council'.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 December 1887</dc:date>
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