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  <dc:title>Letter from John Backhouse, Foreign Office, to the Marquis of Northampton [President of the Royal Society]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Enclosing a copy of a dispatch from the Consul General at Alexandria [Colonel Patrick Campbell] regarding magnetic observations in Egypt. 

[Four enclosures are present and are consecutively labelled MC/3/62a-62d. Each enclosed letter has an extent of two pages. They contain copy letters from Boghos Joussoff [Boghos Bey Yusufian] to Colonel Patrick Campbell (62a and 62c), and from Campbell to Viscount Palmerston [Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] (62b and 62d). Letters from Yusufian are in French.]

[Read by Council on 9 January 1840.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>27 December 1839</dc:date>
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