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Add. MS a/200/66
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Letter from George Airy
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- 26 Dec. 1846 (Creation)
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3 pp.
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Flamsteed House, Greenwich - The medical attendant has announced that Hilda Airy is now out of danger. Has WW received the description of Pulkowa [Pulkowa Observatory]? The speeches at the commemoration did not come up to GA's expectation: 'there was no sufficient acknowledgement of or allusion to the effect of university education on the habits of the mind: - which in my opinion makes the great difference between a Cambridge man and another'.