REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Academy has lost sixteen members by death since the 

 annual meeting of May 8, 1901 : Six Resident Fellows, — John 

 Fiske, Alpheus Hyatt, Truman Henry Safford, Horace Elisha 

 Scudder, James Bradley Thayer, Joseph Henry Thayer ; two 

 Associate Fellows, — Clarence King, Joseph LeConte ; eight 

 Foreign Honorary Members, — Marie Alfred Cornu, Samuel 

 Rawson Gardiner, Friedrich Herman Grimm, William Edward 

 Hearn, Aleksandr Onufrijevic Kovalevsky, Felix Joseph Henri 

 de Lacaze-Duthiers, Friherre Adolf Erik Nordenskib'ld, Karl 

 Weinhold. 



AUGUSTUS LOWELL. 



Augustus Lowell was born in Boston, Jan. 15, 1830. His 

 father was John Ainory Lowell and his mother Elizabeth (Putnam) 

 Lowell, daughter of Hon. Samuel Putnam of Salem. Both the Lowell 

 and the Putnam families were early settlers in the new world, the former 

 landing in Newburyport in 1639, the latter in Salem in 1630. Mr. 

 Lowell thus came of Puritan stock on both sides. Otherwise the parts 

 of his inheritance differed, for the Lowells were Norman by descent — the 

 name, originally Lowle, dating from the conquest — while the Putnams, 

 originally Putteuham, were apparently Saxon. He inherited the quali- 

 ties of his name. Mentally he was the son of his father ; as a matter of 

 fancy as much as of fact, his mother's share in him being chiefly physical. 

 For while in feature he looked like her, in mind he not only resembled 

 his father but looked up to him with a very unusual amount of reverence 

 and esteem. The feeling doubtless was born of the fact and is note- 

 worthy because of the common belief that capable men have had capable 

 mothers. Yet not only in his case but in the case of his father, grand- 

 father, and great-grandfather before him, the capacity followed the name. 

 Indeed the family has proved a singular instance of prepotence in the 

 male line, while the temperament has been as strikingly a maternal gift. 



