REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the last Report, May 11, 1874, the Academy has lost 

 by death twelve members, as follows : five Fellows, John 

 Henry Clifford, Horatio B. Hackett, Joel Parker, Joseph 

 Winlock, and Chauncey Wright ; three Associate FelloAvs, 

 Horace Binney, Sir William Logan, and William Sweet- 

 ser ; four Foreign Honorary Members, Gabriel Andral, Gino 

 Capponi, Charles de R^musat, and Sir Charles Wheatstone. 

 During the year, the Council have also, and for the first 

 time, received notice of the death of Eyries, the Duke di 

 Serradifalco, and De Macedo, three Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 bers whose decease took place several years since. 



JOHN HENRY CLIFFORD. 



The Honorable John Henry Clifford was born at Provi- 

 dence, Rhode Island, on the IGth of January, 1809, and was graduated 

 at Brown University in 1827. He studied law in Massachusetts, was 

 admitted to the Bar of Bristol County in 1830, and was a resident of 

 2s ew Bedfoi'd until his death. In 1835, he entered the Legislature of 

 Massachusetts, as a Representative of New Bedford, and was a mem- 

 ber of the committee for the revision of the Statutes. In 1839, he 

 was appointed District Attorney for the Southern District of Massa- 

 chusetts, and served the Commonwealth in that capacity for ten years. 

 In 1845, he was elected to the Senate of the State; and, in 1849, 

 he became Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, and was con- 

 tinued in that office for four years. During this period, he acquired 

 wide distinction for his management of the prosecution and conviction 

 of Professor Webster. In 1853, he was elected Governor of Massa- 



