EUGENE EMMANUEL VIOLLET-LE-DUC. 399 



public affairs, ardently espousing the cause of the Republic, and writing 

 constantly for the press, generally in the XIX. Steele, a series of arti- 

 cles upon public affairs, many of them directed against the Society of 

 Jesus, in which his historical learning, literary skill, and firmness of 

 conviction are alike conspicuous. His election as a member of the 

 Municipal Council of Paris enabled him to take an active part in the 

 administration of public business, and it is probable that, had his life 

 been prolonged, he would presently have been returned to the Cham- 

 ber of Deputies. 



But as these new interests and duties, which already had seemed to 

 draw him away from the field of his life's labors, were beginning to 

 open before him a new career of usefulness and honor, death suddenly 

 intervened. He died at his country-house in Lausanne, on the 17th 

 of September, 1879. He was born in Paris, on the 27th of Janu- 

 ary, 1814. 



Since the last Report the Academy has received an acces- 

 sion of ten new members, as follows : four Resident Fellows, 

 F. A. Gooch, N. D. C. Hodges, E. S. Wood, and W. L. Rich- 

 ardson ; four Associate Fellows, J. W. Gibbs, Clarence King, 

 A. S. Packard, Jr., and J. C. Watson ; two Foreign Honorary- 

 Members, Georg Curtius, in place of F. W. Ritschl, and Sir 

 James F. Stephen, at large. On the other hand, in conse- 

 quence of permanent removal from the State, Jules Marcou 

 and Horatio R. Storer have abandoned their fellowship. 

 The list of the Academy, corrected to the date of this Report, 

 is hereto added. It includes 191 Resident Fellows, 95 As- 

 sociate Fellows, and 72 Foreign Honorary Members. 



