EEPOET OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the last report of the Council the deaths of ten mem- 

 bers have been noted : three Resident Fellows, — Charles Eliot 

 Norton, John H. Wright, Frederick I. Knight ; four Associate 

 Fellows, — James D. Hague, Wolcott Gibbs, W. K. Brooks, D. 

 C. Gilnian ; four Foreign Honorary Members, — Sir John Evans, 

 E. de Amicis, Gaston Boissier, Julius Thomsen. 



DR. GUSTAVUS HAY. 



Dr. Gustavus Hay was born in Boston on the eleventh of March, 

 1830. After going through the Boston Latin School he entered Har- 

 vard College at fifteen, and on completing successfully his four years' 

 course he took the unprecedented step of petitioning the Faculty to be 

 allowed to remain for a second Senior year, and thus received his de- 

 gree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1850. He then entered the 

 recently founded Lawrence Scientific School, where the most advanced 

 educational theories were being put to the test, and took the degree 

 of Bachelor of Science with honors in 1853. 



By this time he had formed the "Harvard habit"; he was young, 

 scholarly, and with no special professional bent. Neither theology 

 nor law attracted him. There was only one other department of the 

 University untested, so he entered the Harvard Medical School in 

 1854, and took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1857. Then 

 accident turned his attention toward ophthalmology, and he went 

 abroad to study that subject in Vienna, and on his return he began his 

 long and successful practice as an oculist. 



He was married in 1863 to Maria Crehore, who died a dozen years 

 later, and in 1881 to Miriam Parsons, who survives him. 



In 1861 he was appointed Surgeon at the Massachusetts Eye and 

 Ear Infirmary, and held that position till 1873, and thereafter that of 

 Consulting Surgeon till 1900. 



He was a member of the American Academy and the American 

 Mathematical Society; a member, and from 1873 to 1878 vice- 



