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  <dc:title>Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of His Majesty's Privy Purse Office; Buckinham Palace</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Pleads for the custom of presenting a silver replica of the Royal Medal to be continued. Gives the reason Hardy heard as a young Fellow that, 'scientific men as a class being poor', the silver medal figures as an heirloom if the gold medal is sold.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>6 December 1923</dc:date>
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