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  <dc:title>Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to [William Parkinson] Wilson</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Herschel outlines advantages of erecting a great reflector in Wilson’s ‘colony’ [Melbourne] for observation of the southern nebulae on the request of Edward Sabine. Refers to the ’colonial expense’ and Melbourne being a ‘very wealthy’ colony.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1 September 1861</dc:date>
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