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  <dc:title>Letter from John Tyndall to Major General [Edward] Sabine, [Treasurer of the Royal Society]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Asking for Sabine's advice on a possible application for a portion of the government grant for further experiments and instruments in the Swiss glaciers. Tyndall also requests the use of a sapper [?] with a theodolite and chain from the Ordnance Survey office at Southampton. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>10 February 1857</dc:date>
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