REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Academy has lost eleven members by death since the last 

 report of the Council at tlie annual meeting of May 13, 1903: 

 two Resilient Fellows, Alfred P. Rockwell, Charles S. Storrow ; 

 tliree Associate P'^ellows, H. E. von Hoist, J. P. Lesley, and 

 George S. Alorison ; six Foreign Honorar}^ Members, L. Cremona, 

 K. Gegenbaur, W. E. H. Lecky, T. Mommsen, Sir L. Stephen, 

 Iv. A. von Zittel. One Resident Fellow- has resigned ; one Asso- 

 ciate Fellow has been transferred to Resident Fellowsliip. 



New members have been elected as follows : ■ — Resident 

 Fellows (including tw^o elected May 13, 1903), 4 ; Associate 

 Fellows, o ; Foreign Honorary Members, 6. The roll of the 

 Academy now includes 199 Resident Fellows, 100 Associate 

 Fellows, and 73 Foreign Honorary Members,^ 



HORACE GRAY. 



Horace Gray was born iu Boston, March 24, 1828, tlie son of 

 Horace Gray and Harriet Upham. His mother, the daughter of Jabez 

 Upham, a distinguished lawyer, died while he was a little child, and 

 when he was nine years old his father married Sarah Russell Gardner, 

 the mother of his half-brothers, John Chipman and Russell. His pater- 

 nal grandfather was William Grav, the famous merchant and the owner 

 of a great fleet of ships. Horace Gray graduated at Harvard College 

 iu 1845, being in his eighteenth year, very young even for those days. 

 As a youth he knew animals, birds, and flowers. He was famed among 

 boys for the accuracy with which he threw a stone, sometimes hitting 

 a bird on the wing. After graduation he went to Europe for general 

 travel, but was recalled to this country by the failure of his father in 

 business. He entered the Harvard Law School in 1847, two j-ears after 

 his graduation, younger, nevertheless, than most of his fellow-students. 

 He took the degree of LL.B. iu 1849, studied in the office of Sohier and 

 AVelch, and was admitted to the Bar in 1851. Soon afterward he was 

 employed by Mr. Gushing, reporter of decisions, to go on circuit with the 

 full bench. As has been said by Senator Hoar, " He had already ac- 

 quired a great stock of learning for a man of his age. Even then his 



1 Note: In the Proceedings of last year, Vol. XXXVIII., p. 730, the number of 

 Associate Fellows at the time of the Annual Report of the Council should have 

 been given as 99 (not 98), and of Foreign Honorary Members as 73 (not 72). 



