RE.POKT OF THE COUNCIL. 



MAY 25, 1880. 



Since the last Report, May 27, 1879, the Academy has re- 

 ceived notice of the death of nine members, as follows : 

 three Resident Fellows, William T. Andrews, Erastus B. 

 Bigelow, and Thomas M. Brewer ; four Associate Fellows, 

 S. G. Arnold, H. C. Carey,* Isaac Hays, and W. T. Roepper; 

 two Foreign Honorary Members, J. C. Maxwell, and Viollet- 

 le-Duc. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



WILLIAM TURELL ANDREWS. 



William Turell Andrew's, A.M., the son of Ebenezer Turell 

 and Ilermione (Weld) Andrews, was born in Boston, December 

 24, 179-4, and died there November 24, 1879, aged eighty-four years 

 and eleven months. He entered Harvard College in 1808, when only 

 thirteen years old, and graduated in course with such well-known men 

 as Peleg Sprague, Edward Brooks, and Dr. John Homans. After 

 leaving college, he began the study of the law, and entered the 

 profession, but soon relinquished the practice of it, if indeed he had 

 entered upon it. He was fond of retirement and of study, and de- 

 voted much of his leisure to the reading of the classics. He likewise 

 filled many offices of trust. From 1853 to 1857 he was Treasurer of 

 Harvard College. It is said that the salary voted to him he gave to 

 the Plummer Professorship. He was a trustee of the McLean Asylum 

 and Massachusetts General Hospital ; a trustee of the Boston Public 

 Library ; a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society ; a 

 director of the Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Company; a director 

 of the City Bank, and its President for many years. He was for a long 

 period connected with the Provident Institution for Savings, as Secre- 

 tary, Trustee, and Vice-President. He was also for many years a 



* Notice in the next Report. 



