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(The President then, delivering the Medal to Mr Hind, Foreign Secretary, 

 addressed him in the following terms): 



In transmitting this medal to M. Peters, you will assure him of our 

 high appreciation of the importance of the results at which he has arrived, 

 and of the admirable science and skill which he has shewn in obtaining 

 them ; and you will express our confident hope, that in his new sphere 

 at Konigsberg he will confirm and add to the reputation which he has so 

 deservedly acquired at the Observatory of Pulkowa. 







