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Admiralty Noun Brit the former government department in charge of the Royal Navy
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| My father is in the Secretary's office; and two of the Lords of the Admiralty are friends of his. "I'm due at the Admiralty at four to receive my final instructions," he said.
I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scientific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my services, which received, through the kindness of the hydrographer, Captain Beaufort, the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty. |
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