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  <dc:title>Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich Observatory, to Lord Northampton</dc:title>
  <dc:description>On being disturbed by a rumour which has reached him to the effect that a Committee of the Royal Society has recommended the establishment of a Government financed magnetic observatory at Kew.  Airy points out that Greenwich has a fully equipped magnetic section already.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>28 June 1840</dc:date>
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