IIEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the Annual Meeting of May 11, 1898, the Academy 

 has lost by death nine members : — - two Resident Fellows, John 

 Cummings, Samuel Eliot ; five Associate Fellows, Alvan Went- 

 \Yorth Cliapman, Thomas Mclntyre Cooley, James Hall, 0th- 

 niel Charles Marsh, David Ames AVells ; and two Foieign 

 Honorary Members, Pierre Cecile Puvis de Chavannes and 

 William Ewart Gladstone. 



JUSTIN WINSOR. 



The career of Justin Winsor is remarkable both for what he accom- 

 plished, and for the way in which he accomplished it. There is a proverb 

 that a man must make his mark before he is thirty, or he will never 

 make it at all ; but at that age Mr. Winsor had done little to attract 

 public attention, or to give certain promise of great future usefulness and 

 renown. The forces of his nature were still maturing, and it was not 

 until the middle point of life had been passed that lie gave proof of 

 effective power. But the right opportunity had no sooner been presented 

 than his intellectual resources and the vigor of his character were 

 displayed with marvellous rapidity. Every decade revealed him as a 

 leader in some new field of work, and in each he was a pioneer and a 

 master. 



He was born in Boston on January 2, 1831, and got his early 

 education there. As a boy he was exceedingly fond of reading, and kept 

 a diary in which he entered many statistics, scraps of history, and mis- 

 cellaneous notes of all sorts. But he disliked school with its tasks, and 

 did not enter Harvard College until he was more than eighteen years 

 old, — rather an advanced age for a Boston boy in those days. Ilis child- 

 hood, indeed, showed more than one point of contrast with his later life, 

 for his silent, reserved, and somewhat unsociable tendencies were no less 

 marked in his youth than his genial sympathy was in after times. The 



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