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  <dc:title>Letter from Rev Louis Dutens, Mount Street, to Sir Joseph Banks</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Requesting a favour for Jones, a former apprentice of Jesse Ramsden the instrument-maker, who described him as the most ingenious and assiduous assistant who had ever worked with him; he desires to deposit for safe keeping with the Board of Longitude an instrument he has constructed, described as a Dividing Instrument.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>4 December 1800</dc:date>
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