REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Academy has lost nineteen members by death since the 

 annual meeting of May 10, 1899, as follows : Six Resident Fel- 

 lows, — John Harrison Blake, Epes Sargent Dixwell, Charles 

 Franklin Dunbar, Silas Whitcomb Holman, Francis Minot, 

 John Codman Ropes ; eight Associate Fellows, — Albert Nich- 

 olas Arnold, Frederic Edwin Church, Sir John William Dawson, 

 Manning Ferguson Force, Daniel Raynes Goodwin, William 

 Alexander Hammond, Edward John Phelps, George Clinton 

 Swallow; and five Foreign Honorary Members, — Robert Wil- 

 helm Bunsen, James Martineau, Sir James Paget, Carl Fried- 

 rich Rammelsberg, and John Ruskin. 



EPES SARGENT DIXWELL. 



Epes Sargent Dixwell was born in l5oston, on the 27th of Decem- 

 ber, 1807, and died in Cambridge, on the 1st of December, 1899, 



He was the son of Dr. John Dixwell, who graduated from Harvard 

 College in 1796 and received the degree of M.D. in 1811, and of Esther 

 Sarsent, his wife. Dr. Dixwell was a descendant of the regicide. 



Mr, Dixwell was educated at the Boston Latin School, and entered 

 Harvard College when he was not yet sixteen years old. In college he 

 was recognized as an admirable scbolar, and the interest which he then 

 showed in literature and music continued through his life, and afforded a 

 solace to his declining years. Graduating from college in the class of 

 1827, he turned his attention to teaching, though perhaps not then 

 realizing that this was to be the profession of his life. The two years 

 during; which he was sub-master of the Boston Latin School were fol- 

 lowed by several years spent in the study of law in the office of one of 

 the most eminent lawyers of Boston, Charles G, Loring. He was 

 admitted to the bar in October, 1833, and for three years he practised 



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