REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.* 



MAY 25, 1886. 



During the last year the Academy has lost by death ten 

 members; — viz. eight Resident F'ellows: W. S. Clark, Charles 

 E. Hamlin, Henry P. Kidder, Robert Treat Paine, H. H. 

 Richardson, C. U. Shepard, John L. Sibley, and Edward 

 Tuckerman ; and two Foreign Honorary Members, Henri 

 Milne Edwards and Leopold von Ranke. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



SAMUEL CABOT, M. D. 



Dr. Cabot was born in Boston on the 20th of September, 1815, 

 and always resided in Boston or the neighboring town of Brookline. 

 He was the second sou of Mr. Samuel and Mrs. Eliza (Perkins) 

 Cabot. 



On his father's side, he belonged to a family distinguished in politi- 

 cal and social life. His mother was a daughter of one of those noble 

 merchants who have made a generous use of their great wealth, and 

 are remembered in the gifts due to their generosity. The " Perkins 

 Institute and Massachusetts School for the Blind," which owes its ex- 

 istence to the liberality of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, is the enduriug 

 monument of the maternal grandfatlier of Dr. Cabot. 



The subject of this notice was fitted for college at the Boston Latin 

 School, entered Harvard University at the age of seventeen, and was 

 graduated in 183G. He was not distinguished as a scholar during his 



* The decease of Richardson and Von Ranke has been too recent to admit 

 of notices in tliis volume; but notices of Cabot, Dixwell, Hooper, and Von 

 Siebold, omitted for the same reason last year, are now given. 



