REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Academy has lost fourteen members by death since the 

 last report of the Council, — five Resident Fellows, Charles F. 

 Folsom, Edward G. Gardiner, George E. Davenport, Edward 

 H. Strobel, Gustavus Hay ; six Associate Fellows, T. D. Sey- 

 mour, C. A. Young, Asaph Hall, I. C. Russell, A. St. Gaudens, 

 E. C. Stedman ; three Foreign Honorary Members, H. C. Vogel, 

 Sir Benjamin Baker, Lord Kelvin. 



Three Resident Fellows have resigned. 



Seven Resident Fellows have been elected. 



One Resident Fellow has been elected to Associate Fellow- 

 ship. 



The roll of the Academy now includes 187 Resident Fellows, 

 92 Associate Fellows, and 65 Foreign Honorary Members. 



SAMUEL CABOT. 



Samuel Cabot, the fourth of the name, was born February 18, 

 1850, in Boston, where his father was an eminent surgeon. His grand- 

 father, a successful East India merchant in the days before commercial 

 supremacy had left New England, married Elizabeth Perkins, the daugh- 

 ter of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, founder of the Perkins Institution 

 for the Blind. His mother, Hannah Lowell Cabot, was the daughter 

 of Patrick Tracy Jackson, of Boston, celebrated for the introduction 

 of the manufacture of cotton goods into America at Waltham and 

 Lowell, and of Lydia Cabot, of Beverly. He was therefore descended 

 on each side from a family noted for rugged independence, sturdy hon- 

 esty, and devotion to high ideals. 



He was the oldest son but second child in a numerous family domi- 

 nated by the high ideals of which I have j ust spoken, as his father was 

 one of the most vigorous supporters of the antislavery cause when 

 this could not be done without sacrifice, and in this and all other mat- 

 ters the pursuit of the highest at any cost was impressed on the chil- 

 dren by the precept and example of both parents. The life in his 

 earlier days in Boston, and in the summer at Canton, was of necessity 

 simple ; those were the days of small fees, when a surgeon, even of his 

 father's eminence, gained an income barely sufficient for the support of 



