be less intellectual.

Let us now compare the numbers composing some of the various
academies of Europe.-The Royal Society of London, the Institute
of France, the Italian Academy of Forty, and the Royal Academy of
Berlin, are amongst the most distinguished.

Name Number of Number
Population. Members of
Country. of its Foreign
Academy. Members

1. England. 22,299,000 685 50
2. France . 32,058,000 76 8 Mem. 100 Corr.
8. Prussia . 12,915,000 38 16
4. Italy . . 12,000,000 40 8

It appears then, that in France, one person out of 427,000 is a
member of the Institute. That in Italy and Prussia, about one out
of 300,000 persons is a member of their Academies. That in
England, every 32,000 inhabitants produces a Fellow of the Royal
Society. Looking merely at these proportions, the estimation of
a seat in the Academy of Berlin, must be more than nine times as
valuable as a similar situation in England; and a member of the
Institute of France will be more than thirteen times more rare in
his country than a Fellow of the Royal Society is in England.

Favourable as this view is to the dignity of such situations in
other countries, their comparative rarity is by no means the most
striking difference in the circumstances of men of science. If we