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  <dc:title>Letter from Edward Sabine to Humphrey Lloyd</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Sabine has been commissioned by the Royal Society to order instruments for the Pacha of Egypt's Cairo observatory. 

Sabine states that he was for a long time aware that the man behind the 'Cui Bono' criticisms of their magnetic scheme was 'Stephens'. 

Comments on Sir David Brewster's recent knighthood. 

Sabine has had a heated discussion with the instrument maker Dollond was aggrieved not to have received more commissions for instruments to be used in the magnetic scheme. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>11 January 1840</dc:date>
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