PROCEEDINGS 



DAVENPORT ACADEMY 



OP 



NATURAL SCIENCES. 



VOL. III.— PART III. 



MEMORIAL MEETING 



In Honor of Joseph Duncan Putnam, late President of the 

 Academy, held January 6th, 1882. 



The Academy met pursuant to adjournment, President Dr. C. H. 

 Preston in the chair. 



At the hour appointed, the audience room was filled with meinliers 

 and sympathising^ friends. A life-like portrait of the deceased huno- 

 above his vacant chair, which stood, appropriately draped, in its ac- 

 customed place; while upon the Secretary's table was a plaster-cast 

 of the well known, thouorhtful face, taken soon after the inform- 

 ing soul had left its tenement of clay. 



The exercises of the evening were prefaced by the anthem, "• Cast 

 thy burdens on the Lord," which was touchingly rendered by a vol- 

 unteer quartette, consisting of Mrs. P. E. Brockett, Miss Mary Gil- 

 lette and Messrs. E. M. Edgerton and H. J. Lafferty; the Rev. N. M. 

 Clute, of the First Presbyterian Church, following in prayer. 



The President, after stating briefly the object of the meeting, 

 in behalf of the committee, presented the following resolutions, 

 which were unanimously adopted: 



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