KEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the Annual Meeting of the 9th of May, 1894, the 

 Academy has lost by death sixteen members; — four Fellows, 

 Josiah Parsons Cooke, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Jack- 

 son Lowell, and Robert Charles Winthrop ; six Associate 

 Fellows, James Dwight Dana, James McCosh, John Newton, 

 James Edward Oliver, Ezekiel Oilman Robinson, and William 

 Dwight Whitney; and six Foreign Honorary Members, Arthur 

 Cayley, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Ferdi- 

 nand Marie de Lesseps, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Bart., 

 Louis Charles Joseph Gaston, Marquis de Saporta, and Sir 

 John Robert Seeley. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 



Oliver Wendell Holmes was born on August 29, 1809, in the 

 first decade of the nineteenth century, and died on November 7, 1894, 

 in its last. The century's contemporary, he was essentially exponent 

 of the spirit of his time. But he was more. He was pre-eminently 

 the spokesman of the place in which he lived. Though born in Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts, his life was spent in Boston, and it was there 

 he died. Bostonian by birth, if not by birthplace, he was himself that 

 typical individual of whom, more than half in earnest, he recorded the 

 innate conviction that "Boston State- House" was "the hub of the 

 solar system." 



It is usually considered necessary to preface an account of a man 

 with an account at some length of his ancestors, in a spirit truly 

 Chinese. For though every man be a part of all that have met to his 



