OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. VOL. V. FROM MAY, 1860, TO MAY, 1862. SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS. BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE: 1862. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS. VOL. V. Four hundred and eighty-fourth meeting. May 29, 1860.-ANNUAL MEETING. The PRESIDENT in the chair. The Corresponding Secretary read letters acknowledging the reception of the Academy's publications; also from the Entomological Society of Stettin, and the Royal University of Christiana, Norway, accompanying donations to the library. Also, a letter from Theodore Lyman, Esq., Fellow of the Academy, presenting a copy of the Histoire et Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions, Vols. 1 to 50, inclusive, and Index, and fourteen volumes of the Mémoires de l'Institût, complete to the year 1818. The thanks of the Academy were voted to Mr. Lyman for his valuable donation. The Treasurer presented his annual report upon the finances of the Academy; which was ordered to be entered in full upon the record-book. Professor Rogers reported, from the Committee on the Library, that 236 volumes and 416 parts of volumes have been added to the library by gift during the past year, and 213 volumes and 268 pamphlets by purchase. Also, that 723 volumes have been borrowed from the library during the year. Professor Lovering read the report of the Committee on Publication, detailing its operations during the past year. In behalf of the Council, Professor Gray, its secretary, read the following report upon the changes which have occurred in the personelle of the Academy since the preceding annual meeting: Since the last annual meeting, the Academy has elected six Resident Fellows, three Associate Fellows, and two Foreign Honorary Members. Three of the newly chosen Fellows belong to the First Class; one to the Second; and two to the Third Class. Of the Associate Fellows, one was chosen into each Class. Of the Foreign Honorary Members, one, M. LIOUVILLE of Paris, belongs to the First Class, Section 1: the other, Professor VALENTIN, to the Second Class, Section 3. These accessions exactly equal the number of vacancies which have been caused by death during the past year. Within this period, five Resident Fellows have deceased; viz. HON. THOMAS G. CARY, HON. RUFUS CHOATE, REV. DR. WILLARD, MR. BENJAMIN A. GOULD, MR. WILLIAM WELLS, all of Class III. We have lost three Associate Fellows; viz. THOMAS NUTTALL, of the Second Class; HORACE MANN, and WASHINGTON IRVING, of the Third Class. Also, three Foreign Honorary Members; viz. ROBERT STEPHENSON, of Class I.; KARL RITTER, of Class II.; and FREDERICK WILLIAM THIERSCH, of Class III. The anniversary meeting offers a fitting occasion for some tribute, however cursory, to the memory of the Associates whose death we have to deplore. For important assistance in the preparation of these obituary remarks, the Council offer their acknowledgments and thanks to several Fellows, who kindly responded to their call, and of whose help they would gladly have availed themselves more largely. But our statements upon the present occasion must needs be brief and general. Indeed, two of our late Associates, CHOATE and IRVING, were men whose mark and fame render all comment, which could be offered here and now, superfluous. Prompt and fitting public eulogies have already been elsewhere pronounced over the remains of the most elo quent advocate of our time; and, still more recently, over those of the popular author, who down to the close of a long and most honorable life continued to adorn, by important works, that American literature to the formation and general recognition of which he had, even in early years, contributed more than any other writer. The earliest loss from our immediate ranks was that of the HON. THOMAS GRAVES CARY, which followed within a month our last anniversary. Mr. Cary was born at Chelsea in 1791; was graduated at Harvard College in 1811, and admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. After a residence of several years in Brattleborough, Vermont, in the practice of his profession, and afterwards in New York, where he engaged in commerce, he returned to Boston, where he passed the rest of his useful and honorable life in various business pursuits, and in the occupation of many important trusts. He died on the 3d of July last. Mr. Cary was a man of refined literary taste, a lover of art, and a careful student of moral, political, and economical science. His numerous published articles, lectures, and reviews upon these subjects, and his more elaborate Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, show him to have been a vigorous writer and speaker, in a pure and idiomatic style. His sterling integrity and good sense, and unaffected dignified manners, his active interest in educational and social questions, and his efficient administration as President for many years of the Boston Athenæum, and in other responsible trusts, are well remembered by his associates in this and in other institutions. REV. SAMUEL WILLARD, D. D., was born at Petersham, Mass., on the 19th of April, 1776, was graduated at Harvard College in 1803, became Assistant Preceptor in Exeter Academy in 1804, and a Tutor in Bowdoin College the following year. He was ordained over the Unitarian Church in Deerfield, Mass., in 1807, elected a Fellow of the Academy in 1816, resigned his pastoral charge on account of loss of sight in the autumn of 1829, and died at Deerfield on the 8th of October, 1859. These few data indicate all the principal epochs of an uneventful, but a valuable and useful life. They suggest no title to celebrity; but they present a modest and valid claim to that respect which justly attaches to intelligence, virtue, and piety, and to a faithful and exemplary devotion to his sacred calling. His publications were few; but they are creditable to his learning, good sense, and Christian temper. Among them is a collection of hymns, many of which were of his own composing, and prepared with reference to an original theory, which is |