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  <dc:title>Letter: William Thomson, College, Glasgow to David Thomson</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter from William Thomson (Lord Kelvin, -1907) at College, Glasgow, to David Thomson. Gives details of appropriate salary for an apparatus keeper and lecture assistant; comments on his own situation regarding payment of assistant and on inadequacy of student fees, with some account of his students' practical work; adds figures for materials needed per annum; refers to work of the commission; mentions departure of 'Halloran' from museum to Belfast.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>2 April 1859 </dc:date>
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