REPOET OF THE COUNCIL. 



MAY 30, 1882. 



Since the last Report, May 24, 1881, the Academy has lost 

 by death eighteen members, as follows: — eight Resident Fel- 

 lows : John Bacon, Richard H. Dana, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 

 Thomas P. James, Henry W. Longfellow, John A. Lowell, 

 Theophilus Parsons, and Edward Reynolds ; five Associate 

 Fellows : Edward Desor, John W. Draper, Lewis H. Morgan, 

 St. Julien Ravenel, and John Rodgers ; and five Foreign 

 Honorary Members : J. C. Bluntschli, Charles Darwin, Joseph 

 Decaisne, Theodor Schwann, and Dean Stanley. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



RICHARD HENRY DANA. 



Richard H. Dana was born in Cambridge, Aug. 1, 1815. He 

 and his brother Edmund attended school at Cambridgeport with Dr. 

 O. W. Holmes and Margaret Fuller, who were, however, too old to be 

 his associates. He entered Harvard College in the Freshman Class 

 of 1831-2. In his Junior year he suffered from weakness of the eyes, 

 and was forced to abandon his studies, making his famous sea voyage 

 before the mast, and visiting what was then a strange country, Cali- 

 fornia. Returning to college, he graduated in 1837 and entered the 

 Law School, where he took the degree of LL.B. in 1839. The 

 next year he assisted Professor Edward T. Chanuing by teaching elo- 

 cution in the college. 



Mr. Dana had inherited a taste for law, and also for literature. His 

 grandfather, Francis Dana, who was born in Charlestown in 1743, at 

 a critical period, was in responsible positions in the public service from 



