REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the Annual Meeting of the 24th of May, 1892, the 

 Academy has lost by death eighteen members; — nine Fel- 

 lows, John Montgomery Batchelder, Phillips Brooks, James 

 Bieheno Francis, Eben Norton Horsford, Lewis Mills Norton, 

 Andrew Preston Peabody, George Cheyne Shattuck, Henry 

 Wheatland, and John Greenleaf Whittier; five Associate 

 Fellows, William Holmes Chambers Bartlett, Frederick 

 Augustus Genth, John Strong Newberry, William Petit 

 Trowbridge, and George Vasey ; and four Foreign Honorary 

 Members, Sir William Bowman, Alphonse Louis Pierre 

 Pyramus De Candolle, Sir Richard Owen, and Alfred, Lord 

 Tennyson. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



JOHN MONTGOMERY BATCHELDER. 



John Montgomery Batchelder was born, on October 13, 1811, 

 in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and died in Cambridge on July 3, 

 1892. He was a university student at Brunswick in l.S.'H, and ab<> 

 studied civil engineering with Professor Ilayward at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. For many years he pursued the profession of civil engineer 

 at York Mills, Maine; he also practised his profession at Lawrence, 

 Mass., and he had charge of a mill at Ipswicb, Mass. Hie interest 

 in scientific work was recognized by Professor Bache during the 

 period in which he was Superintendent of the United Stales Coast 

 Survey, and Mr. Batchelder was employed, together with J. E. 

 Hilcard and Joseph Saxton, on elaborate observations to te>t base- 

 line apparatus. During his connection with the Coast Survey, Mr. 

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