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  <dc:title>Letter from Herman Merivale, India Offices, London, to G B [George Biddell] Airy, President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Forwarding a memorandum from the Asiatic Society of Bengal regarding deep sea dredging operations in the Indian Ocean. Merivale also attaches a dispatch received from the Secretary of State on the topic. £200 will be placed at the Royal Society's disposal to acquire the necessary instruments and appliances for these investigations. 

[Typed enclosures are present within the volume and have an extent of 7p, including a covering sheet. They cover three papers, labelled MC/9/375a-c within the volume. These items are all enclosures to MC/9/375, see related record.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>16 May 1872</dc:date>
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