Freidrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. “147 
In 1811, while thus engaged, partly in attendance on the fam- 
ily of the De Bergs, and partly in the prosecution of his own 
studies at Dorpat, Struve passed on to the class of Astronomy. 
fectionate and respectful memory. Huth’s health was too infirm 
to permit him to assist his pupil to any great extent, and hence 
young Struve was, by a happy fatality, or in truer words b 
the discipline of Providence, once more thrown upon self-reli- 
ance and the resources of his own efforts. The Professor him- 
self was scarcely ever able to visit the Observatory, but he per- 
mitted his pupil to make what use of it he could. This 
Servatory was at that time but scantily supplied with instru- 
ments, and even those for the most part were not in a condition 
for actual use. Among these instruments was a Transit by our 
countryman Dolland, and the excellence of the object-glass 
attracted the special notice of the embryo astronomer. The pil- 
there was no provision existing for the attachment of the Y’s 
and the other subsidiary apparatus, while the body of the in- 
strument itself had never been removed from the case in which 
it had been packed. or the mounting of this instrument 
Owever, the two offices were happily separated, and Struve was 
henceforth enabled to devote his zeal and his abilities exclusively 
€ proper work of an Observatory. Z 
