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  <dc:title>Letter from Charles Morgan Elliot, Singapore to Edward Sabine, Woolwich</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Elliot wrote to Dr [Humphrey] Lloyd to update him on what he has been doing for the last six or seven months. Refers to revised instructions, coefficient temperature. Elliot discusses the Madras [Chennai] governments ‘grumbling’ at the cost of the present buildings of the observatory. Discussion regarding finding the total horizontal intensity. Refers to going to Borneo Island and getting into a ‘scrape’. Elliot describes taking observations of latitude. Elliot remarks on the possibility of conducting a survey of the whole of Java, Sumatra, and their easter ‘possessions’ in the Bay of Bengal.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>24 March [1815-1852]</dc:date>
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