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  <dc:title>Letter from Thomas Thomson, Secretary of the Eclipse Committee, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 22 Albemarle Street, London, to General Sir E [Edward] Sabine, President of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding the English Government eclipse expedition. Thomson enquires whether [George Gabriel] Stokes could be temporarily discharged from his duties as secretary to the Royal Society in order to take up the role of commander of the expedition. 

[This letter is an enclosure to MC/9/259, see related record.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>29 September 1871</dc:date>
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