Election of Overseers.

The standing committee of electors of Harvard College report the follow-result of the ballots for nomination of overseers:

Whole number of ballots received 1472.

James Russell Lowell has 985

Theodore Lyman has 888

Francis G. Lowell has 809

Benjamin A. Gould has 502

Alexander McKenzie has 490

Leverett S. Tuckerman has 490

John Lowell has 439

Samuel Hoar has 396

Darwin E. Ware has 342

Henry P. Walcott has 305

Edward H. Hall has 260

Theodore Lyman having declined to be a candidate, in a communication received by the committee since the balloting began, 11 names are reported.