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As a lecturer his voice was feeble, his language provincial, and his 

 manner indifferent. Yet, such was his scientific energy, and so valua- 

 ble were bis teachings, that students over-crowded the lecture-room 

 and filled the college yard in their zeal to listen to him. The Vienna 

 School owes its revival and present ascendency to him more than to 

 any other individual. Though he propounded dogmas which severe 

 criticism and further investigations led him to modify, yet under his 

 leadership the science of medicine made immense progress. Even 

 therapeutics was advanced by his labors, in spite of the taunts of medi- 

 cal nihilism unscrupulously thrown upon him and his followers. 



In 1849 he was appointed Dean of the Medical Faculty, and in 

 1850 Rector of the University at Vienna. He was also made Presi- 

 dent of the Academy of Sciences, and of the Medical Society of 

 Vienna. After thus attaining almost every academic or scientific honor 

 possible, attested by unnumbered diplomas and decorations, and after 

 exercising in public and private life unbounded influence on medical 

 and general education, he died, universally lamented, July 23, 1878. 



Since the last Report, the Academy has received an acces- 

 sion of twenty-three new members, as follows: sixteen Fel- 

 lows, J. B. Ames, W. S. Appleton, Edward Atkinson, W. 



E. Byerly, James F. Clarke, F. W. Draper, C. F. Folsom, J. 

 C. Gray, Jr., Alfred Hosmer, E. D. Leavitt, Jr., H. C. Lodge, 

 J. P. Reynolds, R. H. Richards, H. H. Richardson, J. S. 

 Ropes, and C. S. Sargent ; one Associate Fellow, Asaph Hall ; 

 six Foreign Honorary Members, J. G. Agardh in place of 

 Elias Fries, Thomas Carlyle in place of Louis Adolphe Thiers, 



F. C. Donders in place of Karl Rokitanski, F. M. de Lesseps 

 in place of Victor Regnault, H. A. J. Munro in place of Paul 

 Frederick Sclopis di Salerano, and John Ruskin at large. 

 On the other hand, by removal from the State or by resig- 

 nation, the following members of the Academy have aban- 

 doned their Fellowships: A. S. Packard, Jr., and J. K. Paine. 

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

 is hereto added. It includes 192 Fellows, 96 Associate 

 Fellows, and 72 Honorary Members. 



