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  <dc:title>Letter from Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, to George Gabriel Stokes, The Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Refers to an agreement made in October 1883, between the Corporation of Trinity House, and the Board of Trade 'that a series of experiments should be made with a view to determine the relative values of electricity, oil and gas as lighthouse illuminants'. Refers to the experiments being carried out in 1885 and the reports relating to them numbered C. 4551 and C. 4551-1 [not enclosed]. Refers to the conclusions of the Committee being 'contested' by Mr J R Wigham from Messrs Edmundson &amp; Co. Discusses the sanction of further experiments.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>27 September 1888</dc:date>
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