REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



MAY 28, 1889. 



Since the last Annual Meeting, on May 23, 1888, the 

 Academy has lost by death nine of its members ; — viz. three 

 Resident Fellows, George Rumford Baldwin, Jonathan In- 

 gersoll Bowditch, and Samuel Kneeland ; three Associate 

 Fellows, Frederick A. P. Barnard, John C. Dalton, and 

 Rowland G. Hazard ; * and three Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 bers, Michel Eugene Chevreul, Rudolph Julius Emanuel 

 Clausius, and Franciscus Cornelius Donders. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



GEORGE RUMFORD BALDWIN. 



George Rumford Baldwin was elected a Fellow of the Acad- 

 emy ou December 12, 1871, in Class I., Section 4, Technology and 

 Engineering. He was born on January 26, 1798, in the Baldwin 

 mansion, North Woburn, Mass., and died there on October 11, 1888, 

 having devoted his lengthened life, with the full possession of his 

 faculties till its close, to the pursuits of practical science, as a sur- 

 veyor, a civil engineer, and a constructor. 



The " Baldwin mansion," as an edifice, the estate connected with 

 it, and the generations and individuals successively owning and occu- 

 pying it in the performance of many valuable and distinguished pub- 

 lic services, justify a special notice here. The first of the family line 

 of the Baldwins in this Colony was Henry Baldwin, an emigrant from 

 Devonshire, England, coming with the earliest settlers. He was one 

 of the first founders of the town of Woburn, in 1640, took up lands 

 there, still held by his descendants, now including between five and 

 six hundred acres of farm and woodland, and was one of the select- 

 men of the town and deacon of the church. 



* A notice of Rowland G. Hazarfl could not be prepared for this volume ; 

 but the notice of Ezekiel Brown Elliott, necessarily omitted last year, is now 

 given. 



