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Roman virtues of integi'ity and severe rectitude, an ardent champion of 

 universal freedom, and a stern rebuker of every form of corruption and 

 oppression. His last years were crowned with the veneration of the 

 community which he had served so uprightly and wisely in such a va- 

 riety of ways. He added dignity to each of the numerous offices which 

 he had filled, and won conspicuous distinctions in all of them. 



Elected in the year 1803, only twenty years after the establishment 

 of this Academy, he was for many years its senior Fellow. He filled 

 the office of Vice-President for several years, and until near the close 

 of his long life he manifested, by his frequent attendance at the meet- 

 ings and participation in its business concerns, his lively interest in its 

 prospei'ity. He may almost be called the founder of the Observatory 

 at Cambridge. He called the elder Bond to the charge of the incipient 

 institution, which the Academy helped to maintain, took a leading part 

 in those measures through which the ampler endowment and equipment 

 of the present establishment were secured, caused to be printed at his 

 own cost the principal part of its three volumes of Annals, and contin- 

 ued to the last his interest and useful services in its behalf as one of its 

 official advisers. 



Mr. Quincy's most considerable literary works are, — 



1. His " Memoir of Josiah Quincy, Jr.," published in the year 1825. 



2. His " History of Harvard University," in two volumes, published 

 in 1840, which passed to a second edition. 



3. " Journals and Life of Major Samuel Shaw, first American Con- 

 sul at Canton," issued in 1847. 



4. "History of the Boston Athenasum," in 1851. 



5. " The Mimicipal History of the Town and City of Boston during 

 Two Centuries," 1852, written when in his eightieth year. And still 

 later, 



G. "The Life of John Quincy Adams," publislied in 1858. 



Not to enumerate the many pamphlets which proceeded from his 

 vigorous pen, we may mention the last, an " Essay on the Soiling of 

 Cattle," produced in 1859, at the age of eighty-seven. 



It is with no ordinary emotion that we now strike from the roll of 

 surviving Fellows the long-honored name of one whose membership of 

 sixty-one years dates back almost to the lifetime of our first President, 

 Governor Bowdoin, and whose literary studies had commenced wlien 

 this Academy was founded. 



Captain Jamks M. Gilliss of the United States Navy, Sup'erin- 



