REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Academy lias lost seventeen members by death since the 

 annual meeting of May 14, 1902: eight Resident Fellows, — 

 William Sumner Appleton, James Elliot Cabot, Horace Gray, 

 Henry Barker Hill, Charles Greely Loriug, Henry Mitchell, 

 John Daniel Runkle, Morrill Wyman ; four Associate Fellows, 

 — Josiah Willard Gibbs, John Wesley Powell, Ogden Nicholas 

 Rood, Alfred Ricliard Cecil Selwyn ; five Foreign Honorary 

 Members, — Herve Auguste Etienne Albans Faye, Gaston 

 J3runo Paulin Paris, Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., Rudolph 

 Virchow, Heinrich von Wild. 



ALPHEUS HYATT. 



Our beloved and highly honored associate, who, in the ripeness of his 

 intellectual powers, has been so suddenly snatched from us, was cast in 

 no ordinary mould. Whether we regard him as a man, a patriot, a fellow 

 student, a scientific investigator, an organizer of societies, of museums, or 

 of methods of science-teaching, his many-sided life was a rare one. We 

 come together to pay tribute to the memory of Alpheus Hyatt as a 

 promoter of scientific enterprises, as one of the founders of a new school 

 in the philosoi)liy of biology, as a master in paleontological methods, en- 

 dowed as he was with rare powers of mental absorption and concentration, 

 and an unusual capacity for sound generalization. 



The nineteenth century, as regards natural science in the United States 

 of America, was a period of pioneer effort, and has been characterized 

 by the careers of several great men. Their hves, unlike those of Euro- 

 pean savants, whose museums, laboratories, and methods of research 

 had often been founded by a previous generation, had to be devoted, so 

 to speak, to opening and laying out roads, to founding and building 

 institutions, and making the way straight for tiie generations to come. 



Such men were Ilcnry, Dana, Agassiz, Wyman, Rogers, Hall, Baird, 

 and others, all full of love for original research, but who unselfisldy gave 

 up much of their time, so dearly valued for private studies, to develop- 



