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  <dc:title>Extract from the diary of Edward C [Charles] Pickering, Victoria University, transcribed by Annie J [Jump] Cannon, for Lady [Caroline] Schuster</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Giving an account of a visit to Manchester, apparently staying with Arthur and Caroline Schuster and their family. Sir William and Lady Margaret Huggins are mentioned, and Lord Rayleigh also visits, for the opening of the John Hopkinson Electrotechnical Laboratory at Owen's College. The opening ceremony is described. Pickering states that: 'I spoke on the Boer war from an astronomer's standpoint and urged that no reduction should be made in the appropriation for the Cape Observatory'.   </dc:description>
  <dc:date>28-30 June 1900 [1938]</dc:date>
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