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On motion, it was voted that the report be received and spread 

 upon the minutes. 



Dr. C. H. Preston presented and moved the adoption of the follow- 

 ing resolution : 



Whereas, Owing to an unavoidable combination of circumstances, almost the 

 entire work of conducting the present publication has been left to the faithful and 

 energetic chairman of the committee, Mrs. M. L. D. Putnam; therefore. 



Resolved, That in accepting at her hands the completed and highly creditable 

 work. Volume III. of the Proceedings, the Academy, including the rest of the 

 Committee on Publication, do hereby tender her a most earnest vote of thanks in 

 evidence of our appreciation. 



Mr. James Thompson seconded the motion of Dr. Preston to adopt 

 the foregoing resolution, with the following remarks thereon : 



Mr. President : In seconding the motion of acceptance and thanks just read, 

 a few supplementary remarks may not be out of place in stirring up our minds by 

 way of remembrance to the arduous and disinterested labors of the Publication 

 Committee, now brought to a close. Nor can it be deemed ought but just and 

 proper to make particular mention of the persistent and untiring efforts of the 

 presiding officer of that committee, Mrs. Putnam, whose laljors are thus crowned 

 with such complete success. 



However much we appreciate her work {and loc do, thoroughly), no one but 

 herself can actually know, not only the financial difficulties overcome, but also the 

 physical and mental strain endured, in reaching this successful consummation. 



With a clear perception of the benefits that would accrue to the Academy from 

 the distribution of its proceedings to the world, she has worked incessantly, through 

 good report and through ill report, in season and — not to say 07it of season — 

 rather may it be said that in the " bright lexicon" of her devotion and zeal there 

 were "«(' such words" as '■'■out of season,'''' nor "FAIL. " So that the work begun, 

 but left unfinished by the death of her honored son, our late lamented President, 

 Joseph Duncan Putnam, was, principally by her exertions and in answer to his 

 desires, carried out in the successful manner in which it is finished and now pre- 

 sented for our acceptance. 



With unabated zeal in behalf of the Academy, as heretofore, on the part of the 

 committee and its chairman, together with the public interest so generously dis- 

 played by its late subscriptions, is it too much to hope that in the 7tot distant 

 future, wealth and talents will enable the hopes of its friends to be realized? But, 

 whether near or distant be that time, when it does come, "as come it will, for 

 a' that;" when, endowed and established on a sure foundation and the building 

 extended and enlarged to its originally contem])lated dimensions; when the portraits 

 and statues of its founders and benefactors shall be in place in the great HALL of 

 exhibition, prominent among them will be seen two of its former Presidents, those 

 of MOTHER and son (as in the ancient temples), representing at once a fulfillment 

 and a prophecy — the fulfillment of hopes realized and labor accomplished, and the 

 prophecy of the ever-increasing prosperity and usefulness of our beloved Academy. 



The foregoing resolution was adopted unanimously, and, on motion 



