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  <dc:title>Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Secretary of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company</dc:title>
  <dc:description>If adequate assistance can be gained from H M Government the Royal Society propose sending an expedition to the West Indies [Caribbean] in August to observe the total solar eclipse. They wonder if the Company would assist this undertaking for instance by offering transport for the party at a reduced tariff. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>21 November 1885</dc:date>
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