Abstract
IT is announced in a Science Service bulletin for June 18 that Dr. Otto Struve succeeds Dr. E. B. Frost as director of the Yerkes Observatory. Dr. Struve represents the fourth generation of the Struve family that has made valuable contributions to astronomy. He is a great-grandson of Dr. F. G. W. Struve, who did pioneer work on double stars at Dorpat and Pulkova about a century ago. The latter was succeeded at Pulkova by his son Otto, who continued the work on double stars, and made a study of stellar distances and the solar motion. Both of Otto's sons carried on the family tradition, at Berlin and Dorpat respectively. His grandson, the new director of Yerkes, was born in Russia in 1897, and studied at the University of Kharkov. In 1921 he became an assistant in stellar spectroscopy at the University of Chicago, taking the degree of Ph.D. in 1923. He has been at Yerkes since 1924, being in succession instructor, prof essor, assistant director, and now director.
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