EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the last annual meeting, May 27, 1890, the Acad- 

 emy has lost by death twelve members ; — viz. four Resident 

 Fellows, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Charles Otis Boutelle, William 

 Prescott Dexter, and Alfred Hosmer ; six Associate Fellows, 

 George Bancroft, John Charles Fremont, Julius Erasmus 

 Hilgard, John Le Conte, Joseph Leidy, and Christian Heiu- 

 rich Friedrich Peters ; and three Foreign Honorary Members, 

 Charles John Maximowicz, Karl Wilhelm von Naegeli, and 

 Eduard Schonfeld. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



HENRY JACOB BIGELOW. 



Henry Jacob Bigelow was born in Boston, March 11, 1818, 

 and died in Newton, Mass., October 30, 1890. He was the oldest of 

 five children of Jacob and Mary (Scollay) Bigelow. His father was 

 distinofuished in various branches of science and literature ; he was a 

 former President of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and a Presi- 

 dent of tliis Academy ; a man of great ability, a leading practitioner in 

 Boston during his long life, and especially memorable as the founder 

 of Mount Auburn, the earliest of our garden cemeteries. His son 

 inherited many of his father's qualities. After attending Mr. Thayer's 

 school, which he entered in 1826, he joined the Latin School, then 

 under the charge of Mr. Leverett. When Mr. Leverett left the 

 Latin School and established one of his own, he followed his instruc- 

 tor, having: amonor |,is schoolmates William M. Evarts and William 

 W. Greenough. He entered Harvard College in 1833, graduating in 

 1837. "If he does not become a distinguished man," Dr. James 

 Jackson is reported to have said of him, " it will be because Boston 

 is not a large enough field for his ability." 



Mr. Henry Lee writes an interesting account of the early years he 

 and Henry Bigelow passed together, from the age of three until Mr. 

 Lee left to go to college, a year before his companion. He describes 

 his young friend as a slender boy, lithe and active, a good gymnast 

 and dancer, and full of contrivances and ideas of all sorts. He had a 



