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  <dc:title>Letter from Charles Mason to the Council of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Requesting the Society will advance to him "15 or 20 pounds in cash" to convey the instruments to be used in the observation of the Transit of Venus from the Observatory in Greenwich to Portsmouth.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>4 November 1760</dc:date>
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