EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Since the last report of the Council eighteen deaths have been 

 reported : — five Resident Fellows, — Robert Amory, Leonard 

 Parker Kinnicutt, Francis Cabot Lowell, Henry Pickering Bow- 

 ditch, Thomas Wentworth Higginson ; seven Associate Fellows, 

 — Cyrus Ballou Comstock, William Price Craighill, William 

 Wirt Howe, • Melville Weston Fuller, George Park Fisher, 

 Samuel Franklin Emmons, Charles Otis Whitman ; six Foreign 

 Honorary Members, — Friedrich von Recklinghausen, Samuel 

 Henry Butcher, William Huggins, Robert Koch, Maurice Levy, 

 Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff. 



HENRY PICKERING BOWDITCH. 



At the death of Henry Pickering Bowditch, on March 13, 1911, 

 there passed away a man who, as soldier, scientist, and public-spirited 

 citizen, had led a life of enviable usefulness and permanent achieve- 

 ment. He was born in Boston April 4, 1840, grandson of Nathaniel 

 Bowditch, the distinguished writer on mathematics and navigation ; 

 and son of Ingersoll Bowditch, a merchant honored for integrity and 

 generosity. Through his mother, he was descended from the bold and 

 patriotic Col. Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State under Washington. 



At the age of seventeen he entered Harvard College, and after four 

 years of study received the A. B. degree in 1861. In the fall of that 

 year he had begun, in the Lawrence Scientific School, the study of 

 chemistry, but then the needs of his country appealed to him so 

 strongly that he volunteered his services for the War. In November 

 he was appointed second lieutenant of the First Massachusetts Cavalry. 

 From January, 1862, when his regiment was sent to the front, until 

 the close of the conflict, he was in active service. He took part in the 

 battle of Secessionville, and his regiment was in the reserve at Freder- 

 icksburg. In June, 1862, he was commissioned first lieutenant, and in 

 May, 1863, captain. Thereafter he was in the battles of Aldie, Cul- 

 pepper, and Rapidan Station ; and at New Hope Church, November 

 27, 1863, he was shot in the right forearm. During the winter of 1863- 

 64 convalescence from his wound kept him from the field. In February, 



