146 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. 
ample and fame of Wilhelm Struve, had been eee founded 
by Alexander I, immediately after his a accession to the throne, 
and was intende 
rope, where Struve's native ine the German, was 
at that time fe Wet little understood. These early literary pursuits 
also apg toate in no slight ‘degree, to secure that balance ane 
breadth of m or which our lamented associate was 
ward so Reiareabin 
Tn 1811 Struve took his first university degree in Philology, 
and it was only after having thus fulfilled his father’s desire that 
he passed to that branch of science which henceforth became 
the principal object of his life. No doubt, while he was a stu- 
dent at Dorpat, the able scientific lectures ‘of the elder Pacrdh 
excited a warm interest in his mind; but it was rather an inner 
_ call than any external circumstance ‘which led Struve at length 
to devote himself to astronom 
"By thi th is arrangement the young stad 
| regular attendance on the bc 
tures of the me Se soy lee untoward necessity served, as 
natural with one of Struve’s aoe only still further to ‘nicked 
his zeal to make the best of advantages as remained to him, — 
and to animate his s seleliance, 
