foreign members 65 % were Germans. During the 19th century and down to 1908, out of 189 members of the Academy, 139 or 73·96 % (or, if we exclude 16 members from the Baltic provinces and two members from Finland, 69·31 %) were Russians: of the foreign members most were still Germans, 64 %[1]. Thus the percentage of Russian members of the Academy rose during the whole period from 26·17 % to 69·31 %.
The development of Russian thought in a qualitative or genetic sense manifested itself in different ways: in course of time it revealed much more creative power and became more continuous, thanks to the formation of scientific schools, institutions, and other mediums of communication; but this evolution can be illustrated here only by a few examples[2]
- ↑ И. Янжудъ, Національность и продолжительность жизни нашихъ акадмиковъ, in Изв. Академіи Наукъ, 1913, pp. 284–290. These data are not quite precise; 9 Russian members of the i8th century and 19 of later date are of unknown origin as regards province.
- ↑ A general survey of the history of different branches of science and learning, literature and art in Russia is given in the articles of the Russian Cyclopedia of Brockhaus and Euphron; they were published in a separate volume under the title: Россія, ея настоящее и прошедшее, С.-Пб. 1900; see pp. 5–8, 128–30, 139–142, 423–425, 430–446, 581–859, 887–889. For some information on public instruction, see ib., pp. 382–420. The modern general dictionaries of national biography are not yet finished; see Русскій Біографическій Словарь, издаваемый Императорскимъ Русскимъ Историческимъ Обществомъ, С.-Пб. 1896, sqq., of which 23 volumes have already appeared; С. Венгеровъ, Источники словара русскихъ писателей. С.-Пб., 1900–1914, vols, i-iii (Ааронъ-Ломоносовъ); С. Венгеровъ,
