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as he included in it an essentially complete series of his own extensive 

 collections and added much material received by exchanges effected 

 both in America and other parts of the world, both with professional 

 botanists and amateurs, with museums, large herbaria, and with 

 dealers, he gradually brought together a really notable herbarium, 

 one of the best private botanical collections in any part of the world. 



In 1902 the University of Vermont acquired this herbarium under 

 conditions most happily arranged for the comfort of Pringle himself. 

 Not only was the collection given the safe housing he had long desired 

 for it in the substantial biological building of the institution, but he 

 was appointed permanently its curator, with an appropriation for its 

 care. Rarely does a man whose life has been spent in exploration 

 attain a position so congenial and so considerately calculated to 

 permit him in advancing years to organize and correlate the results 

 of his life work. 



From the University of Vermont Pringle received the honorary 

 degrees, first of Master of Arts, and later of Doctor of Science.^ 



Benjamin Lincoln Robinson. 



CHARLES PICKERING PUTNAM (1844-1914) 



Fellow in Class II, Section 4, 1912. 



Charles Pickering Putnam, M.D., — well known for many years as 

 a practitioner of medicine, but perhaps more widely known, yet not 

 more warmly remembered, as a devoted worker on the broadest 

 possible lines of social service,- — was born in Boston, September 15, 

 1844, and died, April 23, 1914, in his seventieth year. 



His parents were Charles Gideon Putnam and Elizabeth Cabot 

 (Jackson) Putnam. His paternal grandfather was Samuel Putnam 

 of Salem, a well-known and honored member of the Massachusetts 

 Bar and for a long time a Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachu- 

 setts. His maternal grandfather was Dr. James Jackson, of Boston, 



6 For further details regarding Mr. Pringle's life, see the biographical sketches 

 by Dr. Ezra Brainerd, Rhodora, xiii. 225-232 (1911); by C. R. Orcutt, Science, 

 new ser. xxxiv. 176 (1911); and by Prof. George P. Burns, ibid. 750-751 (1911). 



