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  <dc:title>Letter from Geo A [George Alexander] Hamilton, Treasury Chambers, to [Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie], President of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding plans to establish an observatory on Vancouver Island and related expense. Hamilton clarifies the Lords Commissioners' position on using public funds for this purpose and quotes from a letter to Lord Wrottesley [the former President of the Society] from 1858, in which the Board reiterates what public funds exist and to what purpose. 

[The letter covers two papers, the second of which is labelled within the volume as MC/6/80a.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>16 May 1860</dc:date>
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