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  <dc:title>Copy letter from Baron von Humboldt, Potsdam, to [William Henry Smyth], Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Thanking the Society for his award of the Copley Medal and their continued interest in his work on astronomical geography. 
The letter is a literal translation of Humboldt's original response. 

[The German original is not present.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>9 November 1852</dc:date>
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