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  <dc:title>Letter from Charles James Buchanan Riddell, Maidstone to Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College, Dublin</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Riddell informs Lloyd of his return to England. Riddell informs Lloyd that he has not taken any observations for some time before his departure and is confident in [Charles] Younghusband’s capabilities to conduct the observations at Toronto. Riddell has brought with him a large collection of returns, which he will send to Lloyd in a few days. 

Riddell saw Mr [William Cranch] Bond and Professor Lovering in Boston, and their [Harvard observatory] is now built, with the instruments in adjustment. Lieutenant [James Melville] Gilliss [naval] officer in charge [and founder] of the astronomical observatory at Washington [United States Naval Observatory] offers to cooperate. [Edward] Sabine informed Riddell of Captain [James Clark] Ross’s observations at Kerguelen Land.  </dc:description>
  <dc:date>20 March 1841</dc:date>
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