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  <dc:title>Letter from George Verdon, Melbourne to Edward Sabine</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding Professor Wilson’s resignation from the Board of Visitors as secretary. Verdon has now resumed the duties of secretary. Verdon has received £500 to purchase the site and building to house the new equatorial [telescope]. Intentions of an application to be made to the government for an extension of the ground reserved for observatory purposes.

The arrival of the new self-registering magnetic instruments. Verdon is sending Sabine astronomical observations from Melbourne Observatory from 1863 to 1865 [not enclosed] and draws his attention to plan of the observatory and the grounds to aid visualisation of the position of the telescope and magnetic instruments.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>26 April 1867</dc:date>
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