Mr. C. Northend, of Connecticut, chairman of the Committee on Necrology, made the following report, paying tribute in memoriam to the members of the Institute deceased during the past year:

It is certainly highly fitting that we pause for a few moments in the midst of our discussions and deliberations, and turn our thoughts to the memory of those of our number who have been called hence, as we humbly trust, to a higher and wider sphere of activity. In calling your attention to the dead, we shall venture to deviate from the usual custom of presenting a set of formal resolutions which might, with equal fitness, be applied to any one of a dozen, and instead thereof give a brief sketch of each of our deceased friends, trusting that a simple, truthful, and concise record of their lives will supersede any commendatory resolutions that we might pass; for unless they live in the hearts of their friends and in the good they have accomplished for education and humanity, of what avail will it be to resolve that they were great and good?

That within the last year, or a little longer, the cause which has brought us together has lost some of its most devoted and efficient friends will be made evident as we recount their names and present their record.

JACOB BATCHELDER, for several years a vice-president of this association, was born at Topsfield, Mass., July 10, 1806. He was fitted for college partly in the office of the late Rufus Choate and partly at Bradford Academy, under the tuition of the late Benjamin Greenleaf. From the academy, he went to Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1830. He at once accepted the preceptorship of a high school at Templeton, Mass., where he remained till 1835, when he took charge of an academy at Lynn, Mass., where he taught with great acceptance fourteen years, and then he was elected principal of a newly established high school in the same city. This position he filled with success and honor until 1856,

when he resigned to accept a similar position in the neighboring city of Salem, where he remained five years and then returned to his former charge in Lynn. In 1862, at the age of fifty-five years, after a highly successful and honorable professional life for thirty-two years, he left the teachers' vocation, and the remainder of his years were devoted to some service under the United States government, and as librarian of the public library in the city in which a large proportion of his professional life had been passed, and where he died suddenly on the 17th of December, 1876, greatly beloved and lamented.

Those of us who knew Mr. Batchelder will remember him as a man of solid worth, a sincere friend. a genial Christian gentleman. Long will he live in the memory of hundreds who have received instruction from the lips now forever closed long will his name and memory be cherished and honored by those who were wont to meet him in educational conventions and councils. Age 70 years, 5 months, 7 days.

NEHEMIAH CLEAVELAND was born at Topsfield, Mass., on the 16th of August, 1796. At the early age of thirteen years he entered Bowdoin College, for which he had pursued a preparatory course, mainly at Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass. He graduated from college with high honors at the age of seventeen years. After graduating, he spent a year at the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., and then entered upon the work of teaching, to which he devoted most of his years and energies. After brief terms of teaching at Dedham, Mass., and Gorham, Me., he took charge of a school for boys at Portland, Me., where he remained until 1817, when he accepted an appointment to a classical tutorship in his Alma Mater. Though only twenty-one years of age, he filled the position with marked success for three years. In 1820, he was invited to the preceptorship of Dummer Academy, where, as previously stated, he had mostly fitted for college. This was the oldest incorporated and endowed academy in New England, having been generously founded by Gov. Wm. Dummer, whose name it bears. Here he remained nineteen years and succeeded in gaining for the institution a high

reputation. After leaving this school, he was, for a time, professor of languages at Phillips Exeter Academy, N. H., and subsequently head master of the high school at Lowell, Mass. His last years of teaching were spent at the head of a seminary for young ladies at Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1851 and in 1858 he made the tour of Europe, and at about the age of sixty years he left the profession he had so greatly honored. Of him, Prof. Packard, of Bowdoin College, thus truthfully writes: "As a teacher and manager of youth, Mr. Cleaveland was exacting, firm, yet sympathizing and kind. His whole bearing in the teacher's chair was that of a man to be respected, confided in, and by no means to be trifled with. In person and bearing, he was worthy of special notice. His compact form of medium height, his firm, elastic movement to his last days, the scrupulous neatness of his attire, his self-sustained, easy, and gentlemanly carriage, as of one accustomed to the best society, his ready powers of conversation, his variety, aptness, and humor in anecdote, inexhaustible, and always new, and above all, his steadfast, cordial, yet discriminating friendliness, made him a companion that one loved to be with and to be parted from with regret." At several different times, and once while crossing the ocean, he was called upon to give public orations and addresses, and always acquitted himself with great honor. As a proof of his merit and high standing, as a man and scholar, it may be stated that his Alma Mater conferred upon him her highest academic honor in 1869. In the truest sense Mr. Cleaveland was a finished scholar, a cultured gentleman, a sincere Christian. Mr. Cleaveland was the last survivor of an honored family, and the last save one of the first eight classes of Bowdoin College. He died at his home in Westport, Conn., on the 17th of April, 1877, at the age of eighty years and eight months. "Like a shock of corn fully ripe," he was gathered to his fathers, but the influence of his teaching and of his pure life will long be felt by those who were his favored pupils and those who were his associates.

On the first day of our meeting at Montpelier a year ago, the telegraph brought the sad message that SANBORN TENNEY

was dead. Mr. Tenney was born in Stoddard, N. H., Jan. 13, 1827. At the age of twenty-six years, he entered Amherst College, near the close of the Freshman year. Of his college life, Prof. Tyler thus writes: "He manifested an absorbing interest in Natural History from the first. His favorite studies were not then taken up until the Senior year, but his room was early turned into a museum of collections in Natural History in its varied departments. His holidays and leisure hours were spent in the fields and in the scientific cabinets. He was a frequent companion and helper of President Hitchcock in his collections and explorations. He is remembered by teachers and fellow-students as manly and mature, gentlemanly and agreeable." After leaving college, Mr. Tenney was associated, for a season, with the late lamented Prof. Wm. Russell, in the instruction of a training school at Lancaster, Mass., and subsequently, for several years, he was a highly acceptable lecturer on Natural History before the Teachers' Institutes of Massachusetts, all his spare time being given to the prosecution of his favorite studies under the instruction of the late Prof. Agassiz, at Cambridge. On the opening of Vassar College, in 1865, Mr. Tenney was appointed to the professorship of Natural History in that institution, and in 1868, to a like position in Williams College, a situation he filled with marked ability and success until the term of his death. Of him, President Chadbourn thus speaks in a memorial discourse: "As an instructor, he was faithful and successful; always ready to do any amount of extra work, and never did his work show to better advantage than in the last examinations which he held. They were all that could be asked for or desired as evidence of faithful, thorough work. But the crowning excellence of Prof. Tenney's life was that he was a Christian man, ―true, kind, faithful, courteous in all the relations of life. He was eminently fitted to be a member of a college faculty. He was able to work in harmony with other men, ready to do his part and more, ready to correct any mistakes of his own, and to pardou readily and without parade the mistakes of others. He was kind but firm in all matters of discipline. As president of the college, I desire to express publicly my apprecia

tion of his worth as a college officer, the sense I have of his irreparable loss to me in his death, the loss of a personal friend. He was a man to meet me cordially and give me his sympathy and support in all the trying days of my early administration. Some men always add to your burdens even when they do not intend to do it, some leave you to bear them alone, and some never fail, even by their presence, to lighten your load. Prof. Tenney belonged to the latter class. His very presence was a comfort, the perfect trust in him was a constant source of strength to those who had occasion to trust him." To the truth of these words by President Chadbourn, all who knew Prof. Tenney will heartily testify.

At the close of the summer term of 1877, Prof. Tenney had made arrangements to take a select class of students on a geological exploration at the West. All his plans were perfected, and the time of starting definitely fixed. But in this case, as in many others, we learn that while "man proposes God disposes." As a last act before leaving, he went to Michigan to visit an invalid sister, and while there, without warning, the grim messenger called for him on the 9th of July, 1877. As an author, Prof. Tenney prepared works on Geology and Natural History, which have been very favorably received. Though he died in the midst of life and usefulness, if "that life is long which answers life's great end," it may well be said of him that he died "full of years, honor, and usefulness. To us such a death says, "Be ye also ready." Age, 50 years, 6 months.

WARREN JOHNSON was born at Vienna, Me., on the 24th of December, 1830. He prepared for college at Farmington Academy, and graduated from Bowdoin College with high honors in 1854. After his graduation, he was principal of Foxcroft (Me.) Academy two years, and then tutor in college for two years. In 1857 he opened a family school for boys at Topsham, Me., where he labored successfully until 1868, when he was appointed State superintendent of the schools of Maine, a position to which he was reappointed for three successive terms of three years each, when he resigned to accept the superintendency of the schools of Newton, Mass. As super