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Add. MS a/200/38
Title
Letter from George Airy
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- 3 Feb. 1841 (Creation)
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1 p.
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Royal Observatory Greenwich - George Peacock has advised GA to apply to WW for names of weights and measures: 'I want a good name for 1/1000 part of an acre, or 1/100 of a square [chair?], or a square of 2 1/5 yards each side'.