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  <dc:title>Letter from Charles Morgan Elliot, Singapore to [Edward Sabine]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Elliot discusses Sabine’s letter to [John Theophilus] Boileau regarding a magnetic survey and suggests a recommendation from The Royal Society would have the desired effect. Refers to the ‘appointment’ of a magnetic survey of the seas. Reference to magnetic instruments and discussion regarding number of assistants and apprentices at different Indian observatories. Requirements of conducting a survey. Elliot refers to portable instruments, fixed instruments in an observatory and the ‘magnetic condition of the magnet’. Refers to the Simla observations.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>14 March 1842</dc:date>
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