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Add. MS a/200/56
Title
Letter from George Airy
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- 29 Nov. 1844 (Creation)
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2 pp.
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Royal Observatory Greenwich - GA has persuaded Lamont of Munich [Johann von Lamont] - an astronomer and magnetician - to stay a few days more and come with him to Cambridge: 'I have known Lamont some years, and have a high opinion of his acuteness and originality and singular good sense'.