AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



Eeport of the Council. — Presented May 13, 1896. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Richard Manning Hodges By David W. Cheeveu. 



Harold Whiting John Trowbridge. 



Edward Samuel Ritchie Amos E. Dolbear. 



Martin Brimmer William Everett. 



Henry Wheatland F. W. Putnam. 



James Edward Oliver Gustavus Hay. 



Viscount Ferdinand de Lesseps Henry Mitchell. 



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