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other academy save that of Berlin on the continent and are producing 

 results in which the members of the academy may justly take great 

 pride. 



In closing this brief account of what a single academy of science 

 on the continent of Europe has done, it may not be out of place to add 

 that, as the work of the academy has expanded, other societies, chiefly 

 scientific or archeological, have grown out of it, thus proving it to 

 be, as was predicted long before its formation that it would be, the 

 mother of scientific and historical learning in Austria. The academy 

 in Buda Pesth has larger resources of its own than the Vienna Academy 

 and has pushed its work with untiring zeal. Barriers of language 

 render the results of its work less accessible than those of the German 

 academies. Two academies in Prague, one for the Germans of the 

 city and of Bohemia, and one for the Czechs, both under the protection 

 of the government and in receipt of grants from it year by year, have 

 done excellent work, but on a smaller scale than at Vienna. Of lesser 

 academies in various cities in the empire, or of learned societies it is 

 unnecessary to speak, inasmuch as the Vienna Academy is the model 

 which, so far as possible, all of them try to follow. 



