AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Art. XV.—Friedrich Georg Withelm Struve.* 
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Spectable yeomen in the Duchy of Holstein. Thus our old 
and honored associate was descended from the original stock of 
the Anglo-Saxon race; a descent which many of us remember 
1808, to send young Wilhelm to Russia, at that time probably 
the quietest country in the world, and where his elder brother 
Carl occupied the post of Classical Lecturer in the University of 
-Dorpat. his university, so soon to be illuminated by the ex- 
_* From Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Feb. 10, 1865. 
Aw Jour. Scr.—Szconp Szrtes, VoL. XL, No. 119.—Serr., 
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