Je ne
manquerai pas de vous faire parvenir par l'entremise de Lord
Bloomfield les insignes et la patente de l'ordre.
Veuillez en attendant, Monsieur, recevoir mes sinceres felicitations
et l'assurance de ma parfaite consideration.
Le Ministre de l'instruction publique,
CTE OUVAROFF.
ST PETERSBOURG,
_ce_ 24 _Aout_, 1847
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5 _Septbr._
_a Mr G. B. Airy, Esq.,
Astronome Royal de S. M. Britannique a
Greenwich_.
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Airy provisionally accepted the Order, but wrote at once to Lord John
Russell the following letter of enquiry:
ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH,
_1847, Oct. 15_.
MY LORD,
In respect of the office of Astronomer Royal, I refer to the first
Lord of the Treasury as Official Patron. In virtue of this relation I
have the honour to lay before your Lordship the following statement,
and to solicit your instructions thereon.
For conducting with efficiency and with credit to the nation the
institution which is entrusted to me, I have judged it proper to
cultivate intimate relations with the principal Observatories of
Europe, and in particular with the great Observatory founded by the
Emperor of Russia at Pulkowa near St Petersburg.
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