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  <dc:title>Copy letter from Lord Northampton [Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton] President of the Royal Society; to the Earl of Haddington [Thomas Hamilton]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Informs of the proposal by Sir John Barrow for a new Arctic Expedition to find the North West Passage. Asks for appropriately qualified vessels and state the proposal has the unanimous support of the Council.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>12 December 1844</dc:date>
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