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  <dc:title>Letter from Sir Reginald Earle Welby, Treasury Chambers, to President of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Asks for further information as to why the President and Council of the Royal Society wish to make an expenditure of £1000 for observing the solar eclipse of 1886 referred to in Dr [Michael] Foster's letter, and remarks 'more specific statements' were made in relation to the eclipse of 1883. Welby requests a statement in general terms of the division of the grant of £4000 between the different branches of natural science in each year.

[For reply, see related records.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>2 December 1885</dc:date>
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