11)8 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATl'UAL SfJIEmiKK. 



AViiKUEAs, 111 the Providence of God, the liaiul of death, wliich none may 

 evade, has removed from this stage of existence in the morning of his life 

 and usefulness, our talented associate and honored President; be it 



Ri'HolN'd, By tlie Davenport Academy of Sciences, that in tlie demise of 

 .J. Duncan Putnam, we recognize an irreparable loss, not only to the cause of 

 natural science to whose advancement he was so earnestly devoted, but to 

 each and all of his associates who have felt, and in some measure profited 

 by the ennobling influence of a life so active and unassuming, given to other 

 than selfish aims; of one whose riches were understanding, and whose best 

 loved treasures, truths. 



Resolved, That the Academy, as an association, feels its deep obligation to 

 tlie tireless organizing and sustaining efforts of tlie deceased, and to his 

 valuable scientific labors in his chosen field of Entomology, laliors wlm-h 

 were those not of a collector merelj% but of an original observer, a careful 

 student of embryology, and of the methods of insect life. 



Resolmd, That in conformity with what we believe would have been his 

 desire, we will strive to make the Academy deservedly lionored at home and 

 abroad, and to this end will labor to sustain the publication of its jiroceed- 

 ings, a work to which, realizing its impoi-tance, he gave the best powers of 

 his waning life. By so doing we shall erect to his memory a monument 

 more accept:i1)l(', as it will lie more useful and enduring tlian granite or mar- 

 ble shaft. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions lie transmitted witli our sym]ia- 

 tliy to his sorrowing parents and friends, and that coiiies be furnished to tlie 

 Daily Gmette and Deinoci'dt. 



Prof. W. H. Pratt then read an address, which was a heartfelt 

 eulogy of th(> deceased, who had lieen to him at once pu])il and in- 

 structor, throughout their long fainiliaT intercourse as friends. 



Address of Prof. W. H. Pratt. 



Our late hcmored and beloved President, associate and friend, 

 Joseph Duncan Putnam, in memory of wlioin we meet here to- 

 night, was horn at Jacksonville, Illinois, Oc'tober ISth, 1855. His 

 parents were Charles E. Putnam and Mary Louisa, daughter of 

 (Governor Joseph Duncan, of Illinois, and he was tlie eldest of a 

 fjiiiiily of e](;ven children, seven of whom survive him. He was 

 a descendant in direct line fnmi Jolin Putnam, who came from 

 Buckingham, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, in IG.'U, and who 

 was the ancestor of the Putnam family in this country, so far as 

 known. Thomas Putnam, through whom he traces his descent, was 

 the grandfather of Gen. Israel Putnam of Pevolutionary fame. 



