REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



MAY 27, 1884. 



During the past year the Academy has lost by death eigh- 

 teen members, viz. : — three Resident Fellows : Ezra Abbot, 

 Calvin Ellis, and E. A. Sophocles; — seven Associate Fellows : 

 Stephen Alexander, of Princeton, N. J. ; J. L. Le Conte, of 

 Philadelphia ; George Engehnann, of St. Louis, Mo. ; Arnold 

 Guyot, of Princeton, N. J. ; A. A. Humphreys, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C. ; W. A. Norton, of New Haven ; J. L. Smith, of 

 Louisville ; — and eight Foreign Honorary Members : Joachim 

 Barande, of Prague ; J. B, Dumas, of Paris ; Oswald Heer, of 

 Munich ; F. A. A. Mignet, of Paris ; Edward Sabine, of Lon- 

 don ; J. F. J. Schmidt, of Athens ; Gabriel Gustav Valentin, 

 of Berne ; and Charles Adolphe Wurtz, of Paris. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



EZRA ABBOT. 



Dr. Abbot was born in Jackson, Me. He graduated at Bowdoin 

 College in 1840. By inheritance and from his childhood of scholarly 

 tastes and habits, he filled the years of his college life with thorough, 

 solid work, — the fit foundation for his subsequent labor and attain- 

 ments. Already imbued with the love of sacred learning, as with the 

 devout spirit in which he ever pursued it, he was wont to take his 

 Greek Testament into the religious meetings of the students ; and, 

 when he was the speaker, he gave to the portion of Scripture 

 which was the theme of the hour the added lijrht derived from the 

 original text. 



After graduation, we do not find that he had any definite career in 

 view ; and he evidently had no just appreciation of his ability to make 

 a career for himself. He might perhaps have remained in or near 

 his native town, and found employment in some school or academy. 



