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  <dc:title>Copy letter from W [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society, B H [Burlington House], to J [James] Emerson Tennent</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Responds to an enquiry regarding the Royal Society's opinion of the installation of 'illumination by Electric Light in the Pearl Fishery at Ceylon'. The President and Council conclude that they see no practical difficulty with this, and are open to such experiments as long as the Board of Trade think it worth the expense. 


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  <dc:date>16 February 1866</dc:date>
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