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It is refined. You ask me, that Dr. Dobuck whose Salary as Director of the Hong Kong Observatory will commence from the day on which he enters upon his studies at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, should be also attached to the Observatory at Kew for some time before leaving England and I am therefore requested to be good enough to inform you, as early a date as possible, of the probable time at which Dr. Dobuck would be free to go to New...
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