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  <dc:title>Extract from minutes of meeting of the Board of Longitude</dc:title>
  <dc:description>"The President of the Royal Society [Sir Joseph Banks] laid before the Board a Plan of an Instrument to shew the number of Miles between any two places on the Globe...from a Person who had not signed his name thereto; and the Board having examined the same was of opinion it did not merit their attention".</dc:description>
  <dc:date>21 April 1787</dc:date>
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