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  <dc:title>Letter from Edward Sabine to Humphrey Lloyd, Tortington</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Sabine has been summoned to attend the appointment which Lord Melbourne has made to receive a deputation of the Royal Society [on the subject of the Antarctic expedition and global magnetic scheme]. Sabine is confident of the deputation's success.

Returns an interesting letter of [George Biddell] Airy's [not enclosed] which Lloyd had sent. Sabine is pained that [Francis] Beaufort does not think favourably of Airy. 

Sabine is dismayed to hear that Lloyd is considering withdrawing as a 'leader' in the science of terrestrial magnetism.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>3 January 1839</dc:date>
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