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Greece has been overrun, it was remarked, by hostile and 

 barbarous hordes. Persians, Gauls, Romans, Vandals, Goths, 

 Slavonians, Albanians, and Turks have successively swept over 

 the land, until some, like Fallmereyer, have come to the con- 

 clusion that the ancient Hellenic population have been utterly 

 displaced, and not a drop of Hellenic blood flows in Grecian 

 veins. This is a paradox, as any one may see who will visit 

 Dr. Hill's school or the Panepistemion of Otho, or the Par- 

 thenagogeion, and look into the animated countenances which 

 might furnish models for another Panathenaic procession. But 

 let the speculative sceptic doubt this if he pleases ; even he 

 cannot doubt that the bees of Hymettus are descended in a 

 bee-line from those that clustered round the lips of the infant 

 Plato as he slept among the myrtles while his parents were 

 sacrificing to the Hymettian nymphs. 



" And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields ; 

 There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, 

 The free-born wanderer of thy mountain air." 



A small quantity of the Hymettus honey was placed on the 

 table as a further and final illustration of the subject. 



Four handred and ninety-fonrtli meeting. 



April 11, 1861. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Mr. Charles G. Loring announced the death, upon the same 

 day, of two venerable and distinguished Fellows of the Acad- 

 emy, viz. Chief Justice Shaw and Judge White, in the follow- 

 ing terms : — 



Mr. President : Since the last meeting of the Academy, and within 

 the lapse indeed of a few days, two of its most venerated members, 

 whose age, social position, and eminent endowments added much to 

 its dignity and influence, having been called from earth by the angel of 

 death, it becomes us to turn from our ordinary avocations for a moment 

 in contemplation of their departure, and to place upon record a testi- 

 monial of our appreciation of their worth. And as both were in the 



