REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Academy has lost twenty-one members by death since 

 the annual meeting of May 9, 1900, as follows : Six Resi- 

 dent Fellows, — Thomas Gaffield, C. C. Everett, N. Holmes, 

 J. E. Hudson, A. Lowell, and S. R. Koehler ; Seven Associate 

 Fellows, — J. E. Keeler, H. A. Rowland, G. M. Dawson, 

 J. M. DaCosta, A. Stills, Wm. Mitchell, and E. E. Salisbury ; 

 Seven Foreign Honorary Members, — C. Hermite, J. G. Agardh, 

 W. Kiihne, Baron Russell of Killowen, H. Sidgwick, M. MUller, 

 Due de Broglie, and the Bishop of Oxford. 



CHARLES CARROLL EVERETT. 



Charles Carroll Everett, D.D., LL.D., Bussey Professor of 

 Theology and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity in Harvard University, 

 died at Cambridge, October 16, 1900, in the seventy-second year of his 

 age. Dr, Everett was, through his ancestry on both sides, identified with 

 the community in and about Boston. His father's family bad long been 

 settled in Dorchester, and that of his mother in Beverly. His father, 

 a graduate of Harvard College in 1806, removed to Brunswick, Marine, 

 soon after his marriage, and entered there upon the practice of the law, 

 which he carried on with distinction throughout his life. Dr. Everett 

 was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850, and seems to have been 

 drawn first to the study of medicine. He was entered during four years 

 as a student of the Bowdoin Medical Colleee, and studied also with a 

 neighboring practitioner, as was the custom of the time. His literary 

 tastes, however, as well as his somewhat delicate health, led him in the 

 years 1851 and 1852 to spend some time in Europe, cliiefly in the study 

 of modern languages and literature, and on his return, wliile still regis- 

 tered in the ]\Icdical School, he was appointed to be Instructor in Mod- 

 ern Languages at Bowdoin. All accounts agree that his service in this 



