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  <dc:title>Letter from William Snow Harris, Probus, to Robert Were Fox, Falmouth</dc:title>
  <dc:description>He has left two thermometers at the Royal Hotel and requests that Fox take posession of them to send them on with the dipping needle being made for De La Beche. Asks to be enrolled by subscription to the Polytechnic [Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society] and notes that 'Falmouth would be a capital place to establish a colony of philosophers'.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>14 October 1837</dc:date>
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