EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the Annual Meeting of May 12, 1897, the Academy has 

 lost by death eighteen members : — seven Resident Fellows, 

 Alvan Graham Clark, Benjamin Eddy Cotting, Alonzo Smith 

 Kimball, John Lowell, Theodore Lyman, Jules Marcou, and 

 Justin Winsor ; three Associate Fellows, Alfred Marshall 

 Mayer, William Augustus Rogers, and James Hammond Trum- 

 bull ; and eight Foreign Honorary Members, Sir Henry Besse- 

 mer, Francesco Brioschi, Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des 

 Cloiseaux, Pascual de Gayangos, Rudolf Leuckart, Victor 

 Meyer, Julius von Sachs, and Johannes Japetus Smith 

 Steenstrup. 



BENJAMIN EDDY COTTING. 



Our late associate, Doctor Benjamin Eddy Cotting, enjoyed the 

 rather rare opportunity of serving two Institutions for nearly fifty years. 

 As Curator of the Lowell Institute, he held office for over half a 

 century. 



Add to this a professional life of sixty years, of which three-fourths 

 was active, and we have a remarkable record. A calm temperament and 

 continuous health enabled him to do all this with comparative ease to 

 himself, and with benefit to others. He had a happy faculty of throw- 

 ing off care, of working easily, of taking recreation between work. All 

 of us remember him as a charming host, genial, bright, self-forgetful. 



In making and keeping medicine respectable, honest and honorable, 

 no doctor in Massachusetts ever played a more useful part. He might 

 be styled the father, if not the founder, of the Massachusetts Medical 

 Society, and was a financial backer and warm supporter of our local 

 Medical Journal. 



It was of great benefit, as well as a pleasure to him, to share the 

 society and to follow the guidance of men of the sciences, other than 



