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  <dc:title>Copy letter from Lord Northampton [Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton] President of the Royal Society; to the Chairman of the Middle East India Company</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Regarding the continuation of magnetic observations. Asks for the permission of the Middle East India Company to allow these to continue for 1845. The permission comes on behalf of the British and Russian governments, who both use the same engineers.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>9 June 1842</dc:date>
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