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J. A. Allen, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in Class II., 

 Section 3. 



William H. Pettee, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 II., Section 1. 



John K. Paine, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in Class III., 

 Section 4. 



Edwin P. Seaver, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 I., Section 1. 



Charles F. Dunbar, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 III., Section 3. 



"William A. Rogers, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 I.. Section 2. 



Samuel Johnson, of New Haven, to be an Associate Fellow in Class 

 I., Section 3. 



Charles A. Young, of Hanover, N. H., to be an Associate Fellow in 

 Class I., Section 2. 



Leo Lesquereux, of Columbus, Ohio, to be an Associate Fellow in 

 Class II., Section 2. 



Since the last annual meeting, the Academy has lost by death nine 

 Foreign Honorary Members, four Associate Fellows, and three Resi- 

 dent Fellows. 



George Grote died in London, June 18, 1871. He was born 

 November 17, 1794, at Beckenham, Kent, and received his early edu- 

 cation at the Charterhouse School. At the age of sixteen he entered 

 the banking-house of Prescott, Grote, & Co., in London, of which his 

 grandfather had been the founder, and in which his father was still a 

 partner. It was a strange fate which sent to a bank rather than to 

 the university a young man of ample means, already inspired with a love 

 of ancient learning, who was destined to revolutionize the opinions of 

 scholars on important points of Grecian history, antiquities, and philos- 

 ophy, and to make himself a recognized authority on these subjects, not 

 merely at home, but even among the most learned scholars of the Con- 

 tinent. Considering the period at which he would have entered aca- 

 demic life, we may, perhaps, doubt whether the fate that guided him 

 was not propitious to the cause of learning. His own studies, conducted 

 without teachers, and perhaps not without a little willing opposition to 

 the traditions of English scholarship, led him into the purer and freer 

 air and to the wider views of German learning, at a time when he 

 might have found Oxford and Cambridge still singing the old song, 



