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  <dc:title>Letter from members of the Athenaeum Club to the Secretary of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding the remarks of the Chancellor of the Exchequer  relating to the Government Grant of £10 000 per annum for meteorological purposes to the Society. The members recommend steps should be taken to rectify any misconception which may exist in the public mind on the point.

The signatories of the letter are Joseph Dalton Hooker, John Tyndall, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward Frankland, William Spottiswoode, Thomas Archer Hirst and John Lubbock. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>8 April 1869</dc:date>
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