HEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



MAY 20, 1SS5. 



During the last year the Academy has lost by death eleven 

 members; — viz. five Resident Fellows: Samuel Cabot, George 

 B. Dixwell, Henr}^ L. Eustis, Robert W. Hooper, Edward 

 Jarvis ; two Associate Fellows : Alpheus S. Packard, Benja- 

 min Silliman ; and four Foreign Honorary Members : George 

 Bentham, Karl R. Lepsius, Mark Pattison, and Carl T. E. 

 von Siebold. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



HENRY LAWRENCE EUSTIS. 



Henry Lawrence Eustis was bora at Fort Independence, in 

 Boston Harbor, on the 1st of February, 1819. His father, Brigadier- 

 General Abraham Eustis, of the United States Army, was graduated 

 from Harvard College in 1804-, and received his final title in the regu- 

 lar array in 183-1; his mother, who died when he was two years old, 

 was Rebecca, daughter of Dr. John Sprague of Dedham, Mass. 



At the age of seven, he was sent to Lancaster Academy, and thence 

 to Stow ; he was afterward placed at a boarding school directly oppo- 

 site AVest Point. At the age of fifteen he entered Harvard College, 

 and graduated with honors, receiving an oration as his part at Com- 

 mencement. 



He immediately entered the United States Military Academy at 

 West Point, where he at once took the highest rank, and while still a 

 cadet was employed as assistant instructor. He graduated at the head 

 of his class, and in virtue of his scholarship entered the Engineer 

 Corps, receiving his commission as Second Lieutenant in 1842, and 

 entering upon his duties as assistant to the Chief of Engineers at 

 "Washington. 



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