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  <dc:title>Plate, figure 10 showing spiral nebula by Mitchell</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Early version of figure 10 from plate XXVI showing a spiral nebula discussed in Parsons' paper. The nebula is drawn in graphite and corresponds to number 131 in William Herschel's catalogue of nebulae. A later version of this figure is found at PT/62/8/45.

Subject: Scientific Instruments / Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the construction of specula of six-feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulæ made with them'.

Received by the Royal Society on 5 June 1861. Read 20 June 1861.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1861]</dc:date>
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