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had formerly been pastor ; and here he closed his useful and honorable 

 earthly career, in September last, at the advanced age of eighty-two 

 years. He Avas elected into the Academy in the year 1842 ; but, 

 having resided at a great distance from Boston, has rarely, if ever, 

 attended its meetings. 



Our loss in the death of the late Chief Justice, and of Judge Wliite, 

 of so recent occurrence, is more immediately and sensibly felt. For in 

 that event the Academy was bereaved, upon the same day, of two of 

 our most experienced and efficient, as well as most venerated members. 

 In the eulogies pronounced at the meeting which immediately ensued, 

 and in the resolves then adopted, this society has so fully expressed its 

 exalted estimation of the character and services of these great and 

 good men, and its deep sense of the loss it has sustained in their re- 

 moval, that it would be supererogatory for the Council to undertake 

 anew a duty already performed so lately and so well. 



We have only to record that the Hon. Lemuel Shaw was chosen a 

 Fellow of the Academy in the year 1823. He was born in Barnsta- 

 ble, on the 9th of January, 1781 ; he died on the 30th of March last, 

 at the age of eighty years. 



Judge White was born five years and two days earlier, viz. on the 

 7th of January, 1776, in that part of Methuen which is now the city of 

 Lawrence ; and he survived for a few hours only his associate and 

 friend. Having been elected in the year 1812, the late Judge White 

 was for almost half a century a Fellow of this Academy, — a length of 

 service which is surpassed by only five surviving members. 



Only one Associate Fellow is known to have deceased since the last 

 annual meeting, viz. the Rev. Professor Charles B. Haddock, for- 

 merly of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, who died on the 15th 

 of January last. He was born in Franklin, then a part of Salisbury, 

 New Hampshire, in the summer of 1796; his father was a trader in 

 that town ; his mother was an older sister of Ezekiel and Daniel Web- 

 ster. He entered Dartmouth College in 1812, was graduated with 

 distinguished honors in 1816, and immediately began the study of the- 

 ology at Andover. In 1819 he was was chosen to fill the newly estab- 

 lished chair of Rhetoric in the College where less than three years be- 

 fore he had taken his first degree; and in 1838 he was translated to 

 the department of Intellectual Philosophy. In 1850 he received from 

 Mr. Fillmore the appointment of Chargi cV Affaires at the Court of Por- 

 tugal, which he held until the year 1855 ; and, i-eturning to his native 



