152 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. 
Czar’s memory to record that the suggestion was wholly spon- 
taneous, and we feel no surprise that our associate was a most 
influential member of the commission entrusted with the execu- 
i ’g noble design. e prosecution of this 
The creation of an od pees to be, from its commencement, 
established for well-defined an 
forth in a formal 
description of Pulkowa, there were no less than 103 persons, in- 
eluding the children, domiciled within the precincts of the 
ak atory. This numerous family comprised seven astron0o- 
mers, several savans connected with the geodesy of the empire, 
‘asecretary, an engineer-in-chief, a cabinet-maker, with ten artl- 
‘sans for the repair of the instruments and 
