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US to do, in trying to fill his place. And as we think of his earnest 

 and fruitful work, may we appreciate how much can be accomplished 

 by devotion and persistent effort, and nerve ourselves to the work of 

 building up the Academy as a monument to him whose name will 

 ever be associated with it; and to whom such a memorial would be 

 more pleasing than any mausoleum. 



Address of Dr. E. H. Hazen. 



Then followed an address by Dr. E. H. Hazen, who spoke in 

 fitting terms of the faithfulness and patient industry of the deceased, 

 and of his many admirable qualities of mind and heart. The doctor 

 dwelt on the career of the deceased, his early leaning to entomol- 

 ogy, his arduous pursuit of knowledge in spite of bodily infirmities, 

 until his name became respected throughout the civilized world. 

 He emphasized the importance of hygiene as a foundation for all 

 other science, the religion of physical development as a basis for 

 the highest achievement, the most perfect intellectual and moral 

 life. As this thoughtful address has not been prepared for publica- 

 tion, it is necessarily omitted. 



Address of James Thompson. 



Mr. James Thompson, one of the first members, and an earnest 

 supporter of the Academy, was then called upon and after remark- 

 ing that nothing would have induced him to face such an audience 

 but his love of the deceased, delivered the following address : 



In the days of the Academy's babyhood, when two or three used 

 to meet in an upper room, and every one contributed what little he 

 could, I was tempted to write and read a paper entitled " Glimpses 

 of Science as seen by a Tyro." T apologized for so doing by refer- 

 ing to an old custom in Scotland, that every traveler in passing some 

 noted spot by the wayside has to throw a stone on the heap, thus 

 helping to raise the cairn to the memory of whatever it was to be 

 remembered — the first stone-age commencement of monuments. 



After the meeting, Duncan Putnam, then a mere lad, remarked, 

 in his bashful, modest, and laughing way, that he was also a tyro, 

 but he hoped to be able to cast a little boulder on the cairn before 

 long. 



