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  <dc:title>Letter from John Washington, [Admiralty] to Edward Sabine</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Washington has read the correspondence between Sabine and the Astronomer Royal regarding magnetic observatories. Remarks on the proceedings of the Royal Society. [Matthew Fontaine] Maury wrote to [Richard] Lyons, [British] Minister in the [United States] regarding an Antarctic expedition mainly for meteorological observations.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>3 August 1861</dc:date>
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