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Soon afterwards the Emperor sent me a present of a magnificent diamond ring through his ambassador in England Baron Brunnow. It was also accompanied, as the Baron informed me, with the Emperor's most gracious thanks for the manner in which my steam hammer had driven the piles for his new forts at Cronstadt, which he had seen in full action.
IR. 2. nos. 11, 2. IIR, 50, obverse 13. Gen. xxviii. 12. See above, p. 619. The ideas 'true, fixed, established, eternal' are all expressed by the element Zida. I adopt this reading as the one generally used. See above, p. 242. Or tush. Cf. Brünnow, Sign List, no. 10523. Or ab. See Jensen, Keils Bibl. 3, i. pp. 15, 173. See above, p. 57.
This was the real beginning of the University's art collection. The same day in June, 1854, that witnessed the appointment of Dr. Frieze, saw the election of Dr. Franz F.E. Brünnow, a graduate of the University of Berlin, as Professor of Astronomy and Director of the new Observatory.
The word may also be rendered "dreams". For this rendering of the verb e-de, for which Dr. Brünnow, Classified List, p. 327. For not only are the first two elements of the Sumerian name identical with those of the Semitic Ut-napishtim, but the names themselves are equated in a later Babylonian syllabary or explanatory list of words.
A somewhat puzzling line, but which appears to convey the promise on the part of the penitent that if forgiven he will observe the rites demanded by the deity. Babylon. IVR 19, no. 3; Zimmern, no. 5. Like a column. The metaphor is the same as in the Biblical phrase, "column of smoke." Published by Brünnow, Zeits. f. Assyr. v. 66 seq. The king mentions his father, Shamshi-Ramman, in the hymn.
Thereupon Brunnow visited sev- eral professors, his first question to each of them being, with his German use of the consonants, ``Professor, can you BRAY? and henceforward this was added to the many standing jokes upon him in the student world. I also found at the university other admirable men, and among those to whom I became specially attached was Thomas M. Cooley.
"May it please your Excellency, I have had the honour to receive, through the kindness of Baron Brunnow, your Excellency's esteemed favour of the 5th November last, the contents of which were highly gratifying to me. These evidences of His Imperial Majesty's paternal solicitude have made a deep impression on my heart, and cannot fail to be gratefully appreciated by every friend of humanity.
This gave Michigan one of the three well-equipped observatories in the country at that time. The telescope, a thirteen-inch objective, was purchased in this country, but other items of equipment were obtained in Berlin under the advice of Professor Encke, the Director of the Royal Observatory, whose assistant, Dr. Brünnow, came to America as Michigan's first Professor of Astronomy.
Stubbs and Dr. Brunnow, has a large and well-merited circulation. This illustrious son of an illustrious father was born at Slough, near Windsor, on the 7th March, 1792. He was the only child of Sir William Herschel, who had married somewhat late in life, as we have already mentioned.
On one occasion, President Tappan, being suddenly called out of town, requested Brunnow, who had married his daughter and was an inmate of his family, to find some member of the faculty to take his place at morning prayers next day.
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