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viz. by Messrs Parrot and Struve. The Commission will con- 

 tinue in permanent communication with the artists who under- 

 take the construction of the instruments, till the time they are 

 received into the Institution. 



As the construction of the observatory is subjected to cer- 

 tain particular regulations, and the making of the instruments 

 requires much time, it can scarcely be expected that the esta- 

 blishment will be opened sooner than the year 1838, or the com- 

 mencement of 1839- So soon as that event happens, the labours 

 of the Commission will be considered as terminated, and the 

 Academy of Sciences will entrust the superintendence of the ob- 

 servatory to a Director, who, as already stated, will be assisted 

 in his scientific pursuits by four astronomers ; the direction and 

 distribution of whose labours will be always regulated by the 

 Director, so that they may always be conducted upon a fixed 

 and uniform plan. At the expiration of every year, the Direc- 

 tor will present to the Academy the journal of the observations 

 which have been made in the establishment, and the Academy 

 will undertake to publish them, during the course of the fol- 

 lowing year, with a Latin text, under the title of Annates Spe- 

 culce Imperiatis in Academid Ctesared Petropolitand. The 

 Emperor has granted, for the maintenance of the observatory, 

 an annual revenue of more than L. 9000 (218,000 francs), to 

 commence so soon as the building is finished. 



And thus the Academy of St Petersburg beholds one of its 

 earliest wishes realized, in a manner which far surpasses its most 

 sanguine expectations. To the scientific establishment which it 

 already possesses is now to be added an observatory, the found- 

 ing of which is not the least remarkable event in the records of 

 astronomy. 



Account of some remarkable Hailstones which fell at Padua, on 

 the 26th of August 1834. By D. L. Cosari * 



After some descriptive details of the terrible hurricane which 

 took place on the 26th of August at Padua, the author proceeds 

 to the examination of the minute structure and form of the large 



* Ann. delle Scienze del Regno Lomb. Veneto. Nov. et "Dec. 1834. 



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