REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Academy has lost nine members by death since the last 

 report of the Council at the Annual Meeting of May 10, 1905 : — 



Five Resident Fellows : Edward Atkinson, John Bartlett, 

 James Mills Peirce, Nathaniel S. Shaler, and Edward S. Wood ; 

 one Associate Fellow : Samuel P. Langley ; three Foreign Hono- 

 raiy members: Otto Struve, Freiherr von Richthofen, A. von 

 Kolliker. Four resident Fellows have resigned ; one Resident 

 Fellow has been transferred to Associate Fellowship. 



New members have been elected as follows : — 



Resident Fellows, 12; Associate Fellows, 1 ; Foreign Honorary 

 Members, 2. The roll of the Academy now includes 196 Resi- 

 dent Fellows, 98 Associate Fellows, and 72 Foreign Honorary 

 Members. 



JAMES MUNSON BARNARD. 



Mr. Barnard was born in Boston on the 15th of May, 1819, and 

 died at his home in Milton on the 10th of September, 1904, in the 

 eighty-fourth year of his age. His father was Mr. Charles Barnard, a 

 highly respected commission merchant in the South American trade, in 

 partnership with Mr. Israel Munson. Mr. Barnard was the youngest 

 of his three sons. 



As a boy he received his education at the Boston Latin School, but by 

 the time that he had completed his studies there, he had already come 

 under the shadow which was to cloud a great part of his life. He 

 had formed the opinion, which was not without foundation, that he was 

 liable to attacks of hereditary insanity, and this had inspired him with a 

 profound sympathy for the unhappy company among whom he might 

 some day find himself, and with an eager desire to alleviate their burden. 

 Instead, then, of going to college, this boy, not yet out of his teens, de- 

 termined to go at once to Europe, to study the institutions for the insane, 

 so as to be able to compare them, and the methods adopted in them, 



