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  <dc:title>Letter from Phillip Peck, London, to Sir Hans Sloane</dc:title>
  <dc:description>On a 'proposal for Improvement of Arts and Sciences by the Royal Society'.

Peck proposed a fund of £1000 to assist inventors; the Society would recoup its outlay by charging a small royalty on the invention, when patented.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 January 1738/9</dc:date>
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