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  <dc:title>Second half of letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to Edward Sabine</dc:title>
  <dc:description>[This letter is a continuation of MS/257/2/279].

Discusses the abolition of the scientific committees [of The Royal Society] and urges Sabine that ‘something must be done’. Herschel has been asked to recommend a possible successor to John Caldecott [at Travancore], and notes he wishes he ‘was better satisfied with [William Radcliffe] Birt’s astronomical capabilities’.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>10 March 1850</dc:date>
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