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  <dc:title>Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Requesting permission to have a couple of copies made of the fifth plate within the 1798 'Philosophical Transactions', which depicts Sir George Shuckburgh's scale-comparing apparatus.

[The next number in the sequence MC/5/240 is not present.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>26 April 1856 </dc:date>
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