298 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



which, according to our analysis, are the most fundamental ones find 

 in the sphere of logic. It is believed, however, that it is sufficient to 

 show that at least something may be usefully suggested by con- 

 sidering this science in this light. 



Five Uuudred and eiglity-third Meeting. 



May 28, 1867. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The following Report of the Council upon the changes 

 which had occurred in the Academy during the past year 

 was presented. 



In surveying the events of the past year, as respects the membership 

 of the Academy, the Council would first call attention to the losses 

 which we have sustained, and would put upon record some brief tribute 

 to the memory of our deceased associates. We have lost six Fellows, 

 two Associate Fellows, and one Foreign Honorary Member, — nine in 

 all. 



Four of the six taken from our immediate circle, Messrs. Hayward, 

 Mussey, Swett, and Jenks, were well advanced in years ; two, Dr. 

 Gould and Dr. Bryant, were suddenly removed from active life and 

 stations which they might have been expected much longer to adorn. 

 All have left names and memories to be affectionately cherished by 

 this society. 



James Hayward was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in the year 

 1786, and died July 27, 1866. His youth was passed on his father's 

 farm, first in Concord, and afterwards in Plainfield, Hampshire County, 

 to which place his father removed when James was eight years old. 

 Anxious to obtain a liberal education, he left his home at the age of 

 eighteen, in the hope of finding in Boston employment that would give 

 him the means of accomplishing his purpose. After three years of 

 fruitless effort he returned to his old home, and took the management 

 of his father's farm, teaching school in winter, and studying at intervals. 

 It was not until 1815, when he was twenty-nine years old, that he was 

 able to caiTy out his purpose of entering college at Cambridge. Grad- 

 uating in 1819, he entered the Divinity School, and went througli its 

 course* but having been appointed tutor in mathematics in the Col- 



