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publication of the " Essays and Reviews," was confined to the fixed 

 stipend of forty pounds a year, which was assigned to the professor- 

 ship by Henry VIII. The North American Review, which then rep- 

 resented the conservative Unitarianism of Harvard Universitv, assailed 

 the volume under the title of " The Oxford Clergymen's Attack on 

 Christianity." The more sober judgment of England on this almost 

 forgotten controversy may be seen in the facts that the editor of the 

 " Essays and Reviews," and the writer of the leading essay, is now 

 the Right Rev. Frederick Temple, D. D., Lord Bishop of London, 

 and that no man ever held a more secure or more exalted posiiion in 

 the Church of England than Dr. Jowett in his later years. 



Dr. Jowett was made a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy, 

 May 27, 1873. 



1894. William W. Goodwin. 



CHARLES MERIVALE. 



The historian of the Romans under the Empire died in December 

 last. He was born in 1808, and was therefore in his eighty-fifth year 

 at the time of his death. The leading facts of his long life may be 

 stated briefly. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, 

 where he received the Bachelor's degree in 1830. From 1838 to 

 1840 he was one of the Preachers to the University, and in 1861 was 

 Hulsean Lecturer. He was Rector of Lawford in Essex County from 

 1848 to 1869. During the last six years of this period he was Chap- 

 lain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1864, and again 

 in 1865, he was chosen to deliver the Boyle Lecture at Whitehall. In 

 1869 he was made Dean of Ely. This last position he held till his 

 death. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of our Acad- 

 emy, May 24, 1870. 



Dean Merivale belonged to a literary family, his father, his 

 brother, and his nephew being authors of reputation. He was 'him- 

 self an author on an extensive scale. In addition to lectures and ser- 

 mons published from time to time, and some critical work as editor of 

 Latin texts, he published the following historical works : — 



A General History of Rome. 1 volume. 



The Fall of the Roman Republic ; — a Short History of the Last Century 



of the Commonwealth. 

 The Roman Triumvirates. 1 volume. 

 History of the Romans under the Empire. 8 volumes. 

 The Continental Teutons. Conversion of the West. 



