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  <dc:title>Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Slough to [James Clark] Ross, Hyde Park</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Refers to instruments for the fixed observatory at [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana, colonial Van Diemen’s Land]. Herschel hopes the Admiralty will provide all fixed stations with chronometers and portable transit instruments. Fears that naval expedition will be detained.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>29 March 1839</dc:date>
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