810 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The report of the Council upon the changes which have 

 taken place in the members of the Academy during the past 

 year was presented, and read in part by the Corresponding 

 Secretary, as follows : — 



The list of the Academy at present includes 194 Fellows, 85 Asso- 

 ciate Fellows, and 66 Foreign Honorary Members. 



Since the last Annual Meeting the Academy has received an acces- 

 sion of twelve new members. Three Fellows : viz., George L. Goodale, 

 of Cambridge, in Class II. ; George S. Hillard, of Boston, and Eben- 

 ezer Rockwood Hoar, of Concord, in Class III. Also nine Foreign 

 Honorary Members : viz., C. F. Naumann, of Leipzig, in place of the 

 late Adam Sedgwick ; J. E. R. Clausius, of Bonn, in place of the late 

 W. J. M. Rankine ; James Joseph Sylvester, of Woolwich, in place of 

 the late C. Delaunay ; M. de Remusat, of Paris, in place of the late 

 Professor Trendelenburg; Friedrich Wohler, of Gottingen, in place 

 of the late Baron Liebig ; George G. Stokes, of Cambridge, England, 

 in place of the late Christopher Hansteen ; W. E. Gladstone, of Lon- 

 don, in place of the late J. Stuart Mill; Charles Darwin, of Beck- 

 enham, in place of the late Philippe E. D. de Verneuil ; and Professor 

 Brioschi, of JNIilan, in place of the late Monsieur Chasles. 



During the year the Academy has lost by death sixteen members, 

 as follows : five Fellows, viz., Louis Agassiz, of Cambridge, John L. 

 Russell, of Salem, and John B. Perry, of Cambridge, in Class II.; 

 Willard Phillips, of Cambridge, and Charles Sumner, of Boston, in 

 Class III. Four Associate Fellows: viz., Henry James Clark, of 

 Amherst, and John Bachman, of Charleston, S.C, in Class II. ; Ira 

 Perley, of Concord, N.H., and Hiram Powers, of Florence, in Class 

 III. Seven Foreign Honorary Members : viz., Poncelet, Louis, Ver- 

 neuil, Chasles, Kaulbach, Hansen, Quetelet, and De la Rive. 



Louis Agassiz. — In the village of Motier, where his father was 

 pastor, Agassiz was born. May 28, 1807. He was christened Jean 

 Louis Rodolph. Motier is in the Swiss canton of Freyburg, on the north- 

 west border of Lake Morat, and not far from the famed battle-field. It 

 has been supposed that the Agassiz were Burgundian Huguenots driven 

 from France by the persecutions under Louis XIV. As a fact, however, 

 the family has been Swiss for three centuries or more. The ancestors 

 of Louis had, for six generations, been of the same calling as his father ; 

 and those who like to trace the workings of atavism will, perhaps, re- 

 gard his strong theistic turn of mind as an hereditary character. Not 



