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  <dc:title>Letter from James [Cosmo] Melvill, East India House, to the Marquis of Northampton, [President of the Royal Society]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Forwarding the Court of Directors' response to Lieutenant Elliot and Sir John Herschel's application to conduct magnetic observations on islands near Singapore. 

[Enclosure not present.] 
[Letter and enclosure were read at Council and entered fully into minutes on 13 June 1844, with Elliot and Herchel's application for additional observations being denied.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>16 May 1844</dc:date>
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