From Lucerne they went on to Milan and Bologna and to Florence, which they reached on May 3rd, which they made their headquarters for the next three weeks, seeing all that was interesting in the city and the neighbourhood, and visiting Siena, Chiusi, Perugia, and Assisi. Then to Spezia, Turin, Geneva, and to Paris on the 24th. Meantime Reeve, having been proposed by St.-Hilaire, supported by the Duc d'Aumale, Jules Simon, and Duruy, as a foreign member of the Institut de France, in succession to Sir Henry Maine, had been elected by a large majority on May 8th. He seems to have received the first news of this from the Duc d'Aumale, who wrote from Palermo on May 10th:-- Mon ancien maitre, confrere et ami, Duruy, m'ecrit que vous venez d'etre nomme associe etranger de son Academie par vingt-sept voix. C'est un beau succes dont je veux tout de suite me rejouir avec vous, en attendant que je puisse le faire de vive voix. Je compte etre le 20 de ce mois a Bruxelles, et diner avec le Club quelque jour du mois de juin. The election had to be approved by the President of the Republic, and the result was not officially communicated till the 19th. It would seem that Reeve did not receive it till his arrival in Paris, and on the next day, May 25th, St.-Hilaire wrote:-- Demain je vous accompagnerai pour votre entree a l'Academie. Vous verrez que le ceremonial est des plus simples. Je vous presenterai specialement a M. Franck, qui, sur ma demande, a ete votre rapporteur, et qui a parle de vous en termes excellents. From the Duc d'Aumale he received, a few days later:-- _Bruxelles, 31 mai._--Je ne doutais pas du bon accueil qui vous serait fait a l'Institut, et je suis ravi d'en recevoir le temoignage par votre lettre. Je voudrais bien pouvoir assister au diner du Club du 12 juin; mais j'en ai quelque doute, tandis que je crois etre certain, _Deo adjuvante_, de pouvoir m'asseoir a notre table fraternelle le mardi 26. Je vous serre affectueusement la main. On May 28th Reeve returned to London. The entries in the Journal are of little interest, but he noted:-- _June 12th._--At Lady Knutsford's, evening, met Lord and Lady Lansdowne, just back from Canada. _15th_.--To Foxholes. The Emperor Fritz of Germany died. During the whole of his short reign, which lasted ninety-nine days, the most bitter quarrels went on about his medical treatment. It was a great tragedy. _25th_.--To London again. 26th, breakfasted with the Duc d'Aumale, who dined at The Club. _July 2nd._--To Winchester Quarter Sessions to qualify as J.P. for Hampshire, having been recently appointed by Lord Carnarvon. _9th_.--Attended Petty Sessions at Christchurch. _30th_.--Winchester Assizes. On the Grand Jury. The next letter, from Sir Arthur Gordon, refers to an incident alluded to in the 'Greville Memoirs,' [Footnote: Third Part, i. 54-5.] which Reeve had commented on at some length, with a reference to the Memoirs of Lord Malmesbury, published some four years before.