REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.* 



MAY 24, 1887. 



During the last year the Academy has lost by death eight 

 members ; — viz. five Resident Fellows : Charles Francis 

 Adams, Nathaniel E. Atwood, Ephraira Whitman Gurney, 

 William Ripley Nichols, Charles Callahan Perkins ; and three 

 Foreign Honorary Members, Georg Curtius, August W. 

 Eichler, and Bernhard Studer. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. 



The roll of our deceased members is headed by the name of one of 

 the most distinguished, — the Hon. Charles Francis Adams. Mr. 

 Adams was born at the corner of Tremont and Boylston Streets in 

 Boston, on the 18th of August, 1807. His father, the late President 

 John Quincy Adams, was then a Senator of the United States from 

 Massachusetts, and Boylston Professor in Harvard College. He suc- 

 cessively resigned these posts, and accepted the appointment of Minis- 

 ter to St. Petersburg from Mr. Madison ; and to this place he took 

 his infant son Charles in 1809. Mr. J. Q. Adams subsequently went 

 as Envoy to Ghent and to Great Britain, and during this last mission 

 Mr. C. F. Adams was at school at Ealing, near London. On his 

 father's transfer to the Secretaryship of State, Mr. Adams came to 

 America and entered the Boston Latin School. He graduated at 

 Harvard College in 1825, and afterwards studied law and was admitted 

 to the bar, but never engaged extensively in practice. He was a con- 

 tributor to various periodicals in early manhood, and wrote on some 

 important political questions in the administrations of Jackson and 



* Notices of Curtius, Eichler, and Sturler could not be prepared for this 

 volume; but notices of Richardson and Von Ranke, necessarily omitted last 

 year, are now given. 



