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Can [?] write memorial to Treasury that embodies main objects of proposed national institution? Indicate number and kind of instrumental trials needed to prepare for future expeditions. JH will be in London next Thursday; call committee meeting then. Send reply to JH care of E. Mackintosh at 17 Montague Square by Wednesday.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
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