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| Title | Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses, Volume 7 |
| Author | Royal Institution of Great Britain |
| Publisher | W. Nicol, Printer to the Royal Institution, 1875 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Apr 2007 |
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