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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>Regarding the Council's resolution to carry on the Tidal Observations on the Coast of Western India and in Scinde [Sindh]. Melvill forwards a copy letter from [Lestock Robert] Reid and J P Willoughby from the Marine Department at Bombay Castle, dated 24 February 1848, addressed to the East India Company. This enclosure contains the latest information on the tidal observations. 
[Enclosure is present and covers two papers, which are labelled within the volume as MC/4/244a-b.] </dc:description>
  <dc:date>29 June 1848</dc:date>
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