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  <dc:title>Letter from C [Charles] Piazzi Smyth, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, to the Secretary of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Applying for a grant of £180 for spectroscopes and £320 for astronomical and geodesical instruments. Piazzi Smyth is planning a trip to Egypt to observe the spectrum of the zodiacal light and to continue his research on the great pyramid. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>25 October 1871</dc:date>
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