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  <dc:title>Letter from John H Wilkinson to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Forwarding a photograph of a monument erected in Unst, Shetland, to mark the place where a clock and pendulum was placed by Jean Baptiste Biot and a "repeating circle" placed by Henry Kater, "to determine by their experiments and observations the figure of the Earth".</dc:description>
  <dc:date>13 June 1895</dc:date>
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