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  <dc:title>Letter from [Archibald] Geikie, Director General of the Geological Surveys, 28 Jermyn Street, to William Thomson, Lord Kelvin</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Geikie refers to a letter he received from Professor [Eduard] Suess, General Secretary of the Vienna Academy, asking if the Royal Society would be willing to collaborate with five German speaking societies, Berlin, Göttingen, Leipzig, Munich and Vienna, for a 'scientific undertaking too vast or too costly' for a single society. Refers to a meeting between delegates from Göttingen, Leipzig, Munich and Vienna, andSuess intends to propose an investigation into the intensity of gravitation over the whole globe.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>18 January 1894</dc:date>
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