REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the annual meeting of the 8th of May, 1895, the 

 Academy has lost by death thirteen members : — five Fellows, 

 Martin Brimmer, Richard Manning Hodges, Edward Samuel 

 Ritchie, Harold Whiting, and Henry Willard Williams ; four 

 Associate Fellows, Daniel Cady Eaton, Atticus Greene Hay- 

 good, Asahel Clark Kendrick, and William Wetmore Story ; 

 four Foreign Honorary Members, Thomas Henry Huxley, 

 Sven Ludwig Loven, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, and 

 Louis Pasteur. 



RESIDENT FELLOWS. 



RICHARD MANNING HODGES. 



Dr. Richard Manning Hodges was born in Bridgewater, Mas- 

 sachusetts, November 6, 1827. He was fitted for Harvard College at 

 the Boston Latin School, and was graduated in 1847. 



Dr. Hodges took the degree of A. M. in due course, and that of 

 M.D. in 1850. He was Demonstrator of Anatomy from 1853 until 

 1861. In 1866 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Surgery. He 

 resigned his professorship in 1872. 



In 1863 he was chosen one of the visiting surgeons of the Massa- 

 chusetts General Hospital. In 1885 he resigned his position, and 

 gave up the practice of surgery. In 1891 he entirely ceased to 

 practise. 



His last illness was short, and he died on February 9, 1896. 



Dr. Hodges served twice on the Board of Overseers of Harvard 

 College. He was a Resident Fellow of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences. 



As a man he was sincere, straightforward, open, just, positive, 

 punctual, not to say punctilious. Possessed of a strong body, he was 



