REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the Annual Meeting of the 26th of May, 1891, the 

 Academy has lost by death twenty-three members ; — eleven 

 Fellows, Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, Edward Burgess, George 

 Bassett Clark, Thomas Sterry Hunt, William Raymond Lee, 

 Joseph Lovering, James Russell Lowell, George Hinckley 

 Lyman, David Humphreys Storer, Cyrus Moors Warren, and 

 Sereno Watson ; six Associate Fellows, Fordyce Barker, 

 George Washington Cullum, William Ferrel, Thomas Hill, 

 Noah Porter, and Lewis Morris Rutherfurd ; and six For- 

 eign Honorary Members, John Couch Adams, Sir George 

 B. Airy, Anatole Francois Hiie Marquis de Caligny, August 

 Wilhelm Hofmann, Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, and Wil- 

 helm Eduard Weber. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



EDWARD BURGESS. 



Edward Burgess was born, June 30, 1848, at West Sandwich, 

 Mass., and graduated at Harvard in the class of 1871. During his 

 college life he studied natural history successfully, and was extremely 

 foud of yachting, showing in this way the forcible working of the two 

 dominating tastes that he afterwards carried to successful issues when 

 it became important to follow them out with practical assiduity. He 

 became Secretary and Librarian of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History by election on February 21, 1872, and continued to hold these 

 offices until May 2, 1888, when he resigned to devote himself wholly 

 to the profession of a naval architect. He died at Boston, July 12, 

 1891. 



His scientific work never engrossed his whole attention, as did the 



