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common sense. A distinguished and productive student and teacher, 

 whose influence was profound upon forty classes of students, he 

 was also a lawyer whose counsel was sought by clients of all sorts, 

 and was desired and found acceptable by the courts. He was not 

 merely a learned lawyer; he was besides a graceful as well as forceful 

 writer, a classical scholar of no mean attainments, a man of ready wit, 

 and an administrator of large affairs. To his friends and associates 

 he was, in Dean Thayer's noble phrase, "a rock of trust." 



In him the Academy has lost a useful and faithful Fellow and a 

 wise counsellor. 



J. H. Beale. 



HENRY WILLIAMSON HAYNES (1831-1912) 



Fellow in Class III, Section 2, 1880, Librarian, 1886-1899. 



Henry Williamson Haynes was born in Bangor, Maine, September 

 20, 1831, the only son of Nathaniel and Caroline Jemima (William- 

 son) Haynes. He attended the Boston Latin School and was gradu- 

 ated from Harvard College with the class of 1851. He taught for one 

 or two years, then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Boston 

 on Sep):ember 28, 185G. In 1867 he was made Professor of Greek 

 and Latin in the University of ^^ermont, and in 1869 Librarian of the 

 same institution, positions which he held until 1873. From that year 

 until his death on February 18, 1912, he made his home in Boston, 

 though he several times spent many months in travel abroad. He 

 was elected to membership in the Academy October 13, 1880. On 

 May 25, 1886, he was chosen Librarian, an office which he held until 

 1899. 



The most striking characteristic of Professor Haynes was the 

 l)readth of his intellectual interests. Always a lover of literature, 

 especially of the literatures of Greece and Rome, he early interested 

 himself in natural history, in archaeology, and in anthropology, and 

 was one of the first Americans to devote himself to the study of pre- 

 historic monuments. The papers and notes which lie contributed to 

 many difterent journals cover an unusually wide field, ranging all the 

 way from comments on Latin mottoes and literary and historical 

 notes of many kinds to discussions of palaeolithic implements and 



