NEW MEMBERS. 461 



present year. Besides a careful and discriminative eulogy of the 

 distinguished statesman and orator of France, Adolphe Thiers, he 

 lastly carried through the press a learned historical review of the 

 nature and character of the ancient legislative assemblies of Piedmont 

 and Savoy, a thick volume, which had barely reached this country 

 before the news of his decease. 



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

 sion of twenty -six new members, as follows : twenty Fellows, 

 Charles R. Cross, George Clarke, Amos E. Dolbear, L. 

 Trouvelot, Arthur Searle, in Class I. ; Edward Burgess, 

 Thomas P. James, Francis Minot, James J. Putnam, George 

 C. Shattuck, John C. Warren, in Class II. ; C. S. Bradley, 

 Phillips Brooks, John Fiske, O. W. Holmes, Jr., C. G. Loring, 

 John Lowell, J. B. Thayer, John W. White, and Justin 

 Winsor, in Class III. ; six Foreign Honorary Members, Hof- 

 man in place of Poggendorff, Heer in place of Hoffmeister, 

 Leuckart in place of Ehrenburg, Nageli in place of Alex. 

 Braun, Steenstrup in place of Von Baer, and Plantamour in 

 place of LeVerrier. On the other hand, by removal from the 

 State, or by resignation, the following Fellows have aban- 

 doned their membership : F. H. Hedge, E. R. Hoar, John 

 McCrady, Francis Wharton, and J. D. Whitney. Lastly, the 

 following formerly Resident Fellows have been transferred 

 to the list of Associate Fellows : E. B. Elliot, R. Pumpelly, 

 C. S. Peirce, J, Rodgers. The list of the Academy corrected 

 to May 28, 1878, is hereto added. It includes 185 Fellows, 

 98 Associate Fellows, and 69 Foreign Honorary Members. 



