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The Rev. Dr. Barris, who had been intimately associated with Mr. Put- 

 nam in scientific work, was expected to be present and malie the principal 

 address. He was, however, detained at home by illness, and in his absence 

 Rev. Dr. Clute, Pastor of the church, made some appropriate impromptu re- 

 marks. He gave an interesting account of his interviews and conversations 

 with the deceased. He thought him peculiar in many of liis characteristics, 

 and in determination and acquirements a truly great man. He likened him to 

 an island peak in the midst of the sea, which stands alone amid the waste of 

 waters, visible from afar. So it seemed to him that the deceased stood in 

 this community, silently accomplishing his purposes in study, and as he 

 worked alone, enjoying his communion with Nature and God, he attracted 

 everywhere the notice of men eminent in science. 



Though he had just entered on his twenty -seventh year, when death called 

 him, still he had lived a long life in view of his profound studies, his large 

 acquirements, and his world-wide reputation. His investigations into the 

 science of entomology were so remarkable as to attract the notice and com- 

 mendation of eminent scientists in other lands. He was one who made the 

 weakness of his physical nature succumb to the powers of mind and a strong 

 will. As a mother loveth her children — as his own devoted, stricken mother 

 loved and watched this, her son — even so he loved his favorite pursuit, and 

 bcEtt all his soul to it. He studied in his investigations all the manifesta- 

 tions of the wisdom and power of God, and delighted in the evidences, thus 

 made known to him. 



The Rev. Dr. Stifler, of the Baptist church, followed in an effective and 

 appropriate address. He said he had come to pay his last tribute to a friend. 

 The giving up of such a life as that of Duncan Putnam was a loss to our 

 community and the world. In the study of insect life were to be found some 

 of the sweetest lessons of Divine wisdom. Death did not end all. It might 

 carry away all of this life, but fame, influence and fruit of labor survived. 

 Duncan Putnam was dead, but many a student would find the light of that 

 life shed upon him. 



The choir composed of Miss Alice Hartzell and M. C. Smith, with Mrs. 

 Robert Smith presiding at 'the organ, sang very effectively, "Asleep in 

 Jesus." The casket was then borne to the hearse, followed by sorrowing 

 friends, and as the long procession moved off for the last resting place of 

 tlie deceased, at Oakdale, Trinity chimes again sounded, in muffled tones, a 

 requifin for tlie dead. 



EDITOR. 



