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ace. Assuredly it was no ordinary man who could secure, as 
Struve secured, order and good-will in so considerable and mul- 
tifarious an establishment. For the endowment of this noble 
institution the Emperor of Russia, with truly imperial generosity, 
assigned no less a sum than ten thousand pounds per annum. 
The servant was worthy of the master. 
heeted with the measurement of the Russian and Scandinavian 
working with his own hands and eyes, and on more than one 
own Indian are, from Cape Comorin to the Himalayas, the execu- 
tion of which alone, and with no other work, has been sufficient 
) ? ? 
finished the revision of the survey of the heav 
nished the Catalogus novus Stellarum duplicium, published in 1827; 
and besides this I had to give an annual course of lectures on 
segnony to the University, and of Geodesy to the Imperial 
Stail. 
