158 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. 
Europe. But while we are bound, in the interests of scientific 
| truth, to speak thus respectfully of this truly admirable work, 
: and of the Saunier Ves which it describes, it is impossible forus 
2 not to turn our thoughts for a moment to our own National 
. Observatory and to its present able Director; not indeed in the 
spirit of contrast or comparison, but solely in the spirit of duty. 
ulkowa, as might be expected from the difference of genius 3 
with which the two nations are inspired; but if the descriptions 
of these admirable instruments were collected from the seve 
monographs in which they are en aaene they would form a 
volu ume sun! way worthy of being a companion vo to 
assisted him, we have felt it our duty to say a word of what 18 
due to the genius of their fellow-laborers in England. In so 
ee we are here claiming no preéminence nor asserting any 
te invidious, comparisons, if at all and anywhere out of 
p d be preéminently so in a memorial notice of a man 
like Sian for it was one of the characteristic features of that 
great man’s life that, although often provoked, he was never 
known ae anes a scientific priority; such contests, he said, 
were not only destructive of the peace of a philosopher’s mind 
but highly rel poms to the interests of science. 
uve was, as might be suggested by his labors, a man f 
ages sticsical strength, greatly corroborated, as he believed, 
by gymnastic exercises in ona: = until the first attacks of 
painful malady in 1858, of which we have already spoken, and 
which poeee brought him to the grave: J he used to say that 
he had ney er known what illness was.’ — advice of his 
cea [<fe% 
? ast temporari Ag 
she _ his incessant work, ey rie omg nee eiarone for 65 
—— of his et ealth: that result was not to be; - in o 
ie Se foster capes was too late. In Struve’s illness th re occur- 
ae red a “Phenomenon ‘y os, though at the time ae to be 
i _Strave used to ax me a exe 
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