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  <dc:title>Copy letter from [John William] Lubbock, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to the Earl of Lincoln [Henry Pelham-Clinton], 172 Whitehall Place</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Informs that the members of the Council have now viewed the building at Kew and have decided to decline the offer of it [as a observatory]. This is due to the dilapidated state and its openness to the weather. Also because meteorological and magnetic observations are being carried out more efficiently by the Astronomer Royal [George Biddell Airy] at Greenwich.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>11 March 1842</dc:date>
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