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  <dc:title>Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Slough to [James Clark] Ross, Hyde Park</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Concerns about equipment for fixed observatories, for which aid will come from [British Association for the Advancement of Science], and for [naval] expedition. Expresses vital importance of meteorological observatory at [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana, colonial Van Diemen’s Land].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>4 April 1839</dc:date>
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