Blake.] 
140 [May 17, 
COUNCILLORS FOR TWO YEARS, 
William A. Jeffriks. Alfred P. Rockwell. 
Augustus Lowell. Charles S. Sargent. 
Miss Susannah Minns. *Henry F. Sears. 
John Ritchie, Jr. *Thomas A. Watson. 
councillors for one year, 
S. L. Abbot. William G. Farlow. 
Henry P. Bowditcii. Edward G. Gardiner. 
William S. Bryant. Henry W. Haynes. 
William M. Davis. Mrs. Ellen H. Richards. 
councillors cx-ojficiis, 
Thomas T. Bouvk. George L. Goodale. 
John Cummings. F. W. Putnam. 
Samuel H. Scudder. 
Dr. R. T. Jackson described tlie development of palms. 
General Meeting, May 17, 1893 
President W. IT. Niles in the chair. One hundred and thirty- 
nine persons present. 
The following pa]»er was read : 
THE EDUCATION OF A DEAF BLIND MUTE. 
BY CLARENCE .1. BLAKE. 
lAbHtract.'] 
:My first knowledge of Willie IJobin, two years ago, came 
through the sound of her voice from an adjoining room. It was 
the ty|)ical voice of an untrained deaf mute, inarticulate, ranging 
through a short compass of three or four notes into tlie rising and 
falling iidlection, well marked, and with detinite variations in its 
force value, indicating either a slight renuiant of hearing or 
education of modulation through the tactile sense. The door 
opened and there entered a child with eager, questioning face, 
the head thrown back, the sightless eyes upraised, and the arms 
