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Since the last Annual Meeting the Academy has received an acces- 

 sion of seventeen new members, viz. five Resident Fellows (two of 

 them in the First Class, one in the Second, and two in the Third Class) ; 

 seven Associate Fellows (two in the First, one in the Second, and four 

 in the Third Class) ; and five Foreign Honorary Members, i. e. Professor 

 Graham, of London, in the place of the late Professor Mitscherlich ; 

 William Lawrence, of London, in the place of the late Sir Benjamin 

 Brodie ; Professor Max Miiller, of Oxford, in that of the late Jacob 

 Grimm ; Henry H. Milman, the Dean of St. Paul's, in the place of the 

 late Archbishop Whately ; and Frederick Overbeck, of Rome, in that 

 of Christian Ranch. 



During the year no less than fourteen members have been stricken 

 by death from the ranks of the Academy, — a loss not only numerically 

 large, but noteworthy from the many distinguished names which it 

 embraces. Of this long list four were Resident Fellows, six were 

 Associate Fellows, and four were Foreign Honorary Members of the 

 Academy. 



The Resident Fellows thus withdrawn are : Professor Edward Hitch- 

 cock and Mr. Francis Alger, of Class IL, Section 1, and Dx*. George 

 Hayward and Dr. John "Ware, of Class IL, Section 4. 



Edward Hitchcock, a distinguished member of our Geological 

 Section, elected into the Academy thirty years ago, died at Amherst, 

 on the 27th of February last. He was born at Deerfeld, Massachu- 

 setts, on the 24th of May, 1793, i. e. exactly seventy-one years ago, 

 received such education as was afforded by the academy of that village, 

 where he early developed a fondness for scientific knowledge, espe- 

 cially for mathematics ; he studied theology at New Haven, and was 

 for four years pastor of a church at Conway, Massachusetts. He 

 was called in the year 1825 to the chair of Chemistry and Natural 

 History in Amherst College, — an institution with which his name is 

 inseparably connected, and which, for its general prosperity, no less 

 than for its renowned scientific cabinets, doubtless owes far more to him 

 than to any other individual. He was for almost forty years a Profes- 

 sor, and for ten years President of the College. A list of his publica- 

 tions is appended to a volume which he published shortly before his 

 death, entitled " Reminiscences of Amherst College." These are very 

 numerous and various. " Sixteen volumes and pamphlets," and " fifty- 

 three papers in the journals," are enumerated as scientific productions. 

 All of them which are of permanent interest relate to geology. His 



