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  <dc:title>Letter from Henry James, Colonel Royal Engineers, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, to the Secretary of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Requesting one of the Society's standard metres for the purposes of comparing standards of length across Europe. This relates to the triangulation of the United Kingdom. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>23 May 1864</dc:date>
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