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  <dc:title>Letter from J [James] Emerson Tennent, Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, to [Sir Edward Sabine], President of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Forwarding a copy dispatch and its enclosures from the Governor of Ceylon [Sri Lanka] regarding the practicability of using electric light in oyster bed fishing there. 

[Enclosures are present with a total extent of 15p over nine papers. They include: a dispatch from Hercules Robinson to Edward Cardwell [MC/7/291a], a letter to the Colonial Secretary [MC/7/291b], a handwritten extract from the Manchester Times on fishing by electric light [MC/7/291c-f], and a letter from Holdsworth to the Colonial Secretary [MC/7/291g-h].]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>9 January 1866</dc:date>
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