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  <dc:title>Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to Edward Sabine</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Discusses negotiations between the government and the Royal Society regarding Meteorological Departments of the Board of Trade. Discussion regarding the required changes at Kew Observatory to make it part of a government department. Refers to Balfour Stewart and his ‘excellent’ charge of the ‘establishment’.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>27 June 1865</dc:date>
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