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could not be found in the libraries of Europe and 150 of which had 

 never been published. During the discussions concerning himself and 

 his relation to the inscriptions he retired to Leipzig as a professor and 

 thence to Zurich, where he began his 'History of Rome.' In Ins new 

 work in the 'Inscriptions' Italian scholars freely offered their assist- 

 ance, some of them without asking for pay, so that when the king 

 pledged $2,000 a year for six years there was no reason for hesitating 

 to send the young scholar back to Italy. In 1857 he was transferred 

 from Breslau, where he had been made a professor, to Berlin, given a 

 chair in the university and elected to active membership in the academy. 

 He became one of its most useful and prominent members, and at his 

 death in 1903 was one of its most famous. Vol. IX. of the Latin 

 inscriptions was published in 1862, and in the same year the 'Monu- 

 menta Prises Latinitatis.' Each year of this reign from $1,500 to 

 $1,750 was expended, apart from special grants, for purely scientific 

 purposes. Yet, in spite of its limited means, never exceeding $15,000 

 annually, the savings of the academy in 1857 had reached the sum of 

 $25,000. 



The death or Avithdrawal of many of the older members of the 

 academy and the introduction of new members, many of them young 

 men, brought a great change into its spirit and methods. The Grimm 

 brothers were in the academy thirty years and did very much to in- 

 crease its usefulness and its reputation. The second edition of Jacob 

 Grimm's 'German Grammar,' the first edition appearing in 1822, con- 

 tains his law of sound and gives its author a place by the side of 

 William von Humboldt and Francis Bopp as one of the founders of 

 the modern science of language. After the death of Stein, G. H. Pertz 

 was entrusted by the Society for Old German History with the editor- 

 ship of the 'Monumenta Germanise,' a work which but for his dili- 

 gence and his skill might never have been finished. It was through 

 his advice and persistency that the academy was induced to publish the 

 'Annals of Leibniz.' In 1844 Jacobi, second only to Gauss as a mathe- 

 matician, was brought from Konigsberg to Berlin and the academy. 

 He devoted himself to the study of the functions of the ellipse. His 

 writings for six years fill two of the quarto volumes of the academy. 

 Trendelenberg, whose strength as a philosopher lay in his skill as a 

 critic, and in his knowledge of all previous thought, was instrumental 

 in inducing the academy to undertake the publication of the works of 

 Aristotle. Peterman was famous for his acquaintance with the Ar- 

 menian, Semitic and Coptic languages, and Homeyer for his studies 

 in the middle ages and for his ability to trace in a scientific manner 

 the history of law during that era, and to give his contemporaries a 

 correct understanding of the history and development of German law. 

 Of what Lepsius did for the science of Egyptology few are unaware. 

 During the fifties the zoologist Peters; the physiologist DuBois Bey- 



