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  <dc:title>Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Assistant Secretary, Royal Mail Steam Packet Company</dc:title>
  <dc:description>In answer to the recipients letter of 23 November [1885], Rix is directed by the Secretaries to say that the party of observers [of the total solar eclipse] whom it is proposed to send upon the scientific expedition would comprise about ten persons. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>30 November 1885</dc:date>
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