REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Academy has lost nine members by death since the re- 

 port of the Council at the Annual 'meeting, May 9, 1906 : three 

 Resident Fellows, Edward J. Young, Bennett H. Nash, Samuel 

 Cabot ; six Foreign Honorary Members, J. W. A. Kirchhoff, 

 Lndwig Boltzmann, F. Bruuetiere, D. Mendeleeff, M. Berthelot, 

 Sir Michael Foster. 



Six Resident Fellows have resigned ; one has abandoned 

 Fellowship. 



New members have been elected as follows: Resident Fellows, 

 three ; Foreign Honorary Members, two. 



The roll of the Academy now includes 189 Resident Fellows, 

 98 Associate Fellows, and 68 Foreign Honorary Members. 



EDWARD ATKINSON 



Edward Atkinson, a member of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences since March 12, 1879, was born in Brookline, Mass., on February 

 10. 1827, and died in Boston on December 11, 1905. He was descended 

 on his father's side from the patriot minuteman. Lieutenant Amos At- 

 kinson, and on the maternal side from Stephen Greenleaf, a well known 

 fighter of Indians in the colonial period ; thus honestly inheriting on 

 both sides that combative spirit which marked his life in good causes. 

 Owing to the business reverses of his father he was prevented from 

 receiving, as his elder brother William Parsons Atkinson had received, 

 a Harvard College education, a training which was also extended to all 

 of Edward Atkinson's sons at a later day. At fifteen he entered the 

 employment of Read and Chadwick, Commission Merchants, Boston, in 

 the capacity of office boy ; but he rapidly rose to the position of book- 

 keeper, and subsequently became connected "«ath several cotton manu- 

 facturing companies in Lewiston, Maine, and elsewhere. He was for 

 many years the treasurer of a number of such corporations, and in 1878 

 became President of the Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Com- 

 pany. This business was in a somewhat chaotic state when he took 

 hold of it, but he remained in this position until his death, having dur- 



