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  <dc:title>Letter from Joseph Henry, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, to Lieutenant-Colonel [Edward] Sabine, [Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding the now duty-free delivery of books into Great Britain. Henry thanks the Society for its offer to act as an intermediary between the Smithsonian Institution and scientific institutions in Europe. Henry transmits a list of correspondents to the Society and introduces Henry Stevens as the Smithsonian's agent in London. 

[Note in 1852, Sabine is no longer foreign secretary but treasurer of the Royal Society.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>7 May 1852</dc:date>
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