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  <dc:title>Letter from Jos B [Joseph Brooks] Yates, 'Compass Committee' rooms, Liverpool, to Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Thanking the Society for its offer to search for papers in the 'Philosophical Transactions' on errors in compasses caused by iron in ships. Yates furthermore requests the printed results to acquire further data for comparison. Other requested papers include research by Sabine, Captain Johnson, and Captain Henry Kater's papers. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>24 July 1855</dc:date>
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