PROCEEDINGS 



DAVENPORT ACADEMY 



NATURAL SCIENCES. 



VOLUME IV. 



RECORD OF PROCEEDINOS. 



January 4th, 1882. — Annual Meeting. 

 The President, Dr. C. H. Preston, in the chair. 

 Sixteen members and three visitors present. 

 The reports of officers were presented and referred to the 

 PubHcation Committee : 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Ladies and Gentlemen of the Academy: — Having occu- 

 pied for so short a time the chair made vacant by the death of our 

 late honored associate, J. Duncan Putnam, I feel most painfully my 

 inability to take his place to-night, to offer an acceptable substitute 

 for the address we had hoped to hear from his earnest lips. Living 

 in and for the Academy, and in that love of nature and nature's 

 truths which the Academy represents, he knew its every want, its 

 points of weakness and of strength, all it has done, is doing and 

 hopes to accomplish. Each addition to library or museum he not 



[Proc. D. a. N. S., Vol. IV.] i (Nov. i8, 1883.] 



