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port Academy never would have had half so vigorous a growth, nor proved 

 so timely and beneficent an example to the younger communities of our 

 country. His efforts and example have surely given it an impulse which 

 will long enable it to sustain the character it enjoys; let us even hope for 

 sometliing better. At the same time his writings are among the most schol- 

 arly achievements of the scientific men of the Western States, and show him 

 to the world a modest and safe pioneer in paths of his own choosing. It is 

 earnestly to be ho])ed that he left his material for the long looked for mono- 

 grai)h of the Solpngiikv in such shape that the Academy can give it to the 

 world at an early day, and that the Academy will feel this a trust which it 

 cannot rightly fail to assume. 



With thanks for your kind invitation I remain. 



Very respectfully, yours, 



SAM'L. H. SCUDDER. 



From Dr. H. A. Hagen, Cambridge, Mass. 



Cambridge, Mass., December 22, 1881. 



Mrs. C. E. Putnam : Deah Madam — Your paper with the very sad news of 

 tlie death of your excellent son has arrived. I was entirely unprepared for 

 the sad event just now, though some years ago I could not believe that he 

 would be able to live a few months longer. But as he had recovered last 

 year in a remarkable manner, I had the hope he would go on better and 

 better. 



I had the honor to know your lamented son for a number of years. The 

 first letter gave to me a strong belief in his earnestness and capacity — so that 

 my answer was prejiared with great care and industry. 



His extreme modesty and the lack of any pretention except to advance 

 science, is in some manner unrivaled. His scientific work shows most clearly 

 tliat American science lias lost a very prominent student. I think he could 

 not have had an enemy ! 



You will be assured that I feel very strongly how much you have lost. 

 Yours, vevj respectfully, 



DR. H. A. HAGEN. 



From C. V. Riley, U. S. Entomolo^st, Waehiugton, D. C. 



Washington, D. C, December 81, 1881. 

 Gentlemen : As I cannot be present at the meeting of the members of 

 the Academy which is to be held in memory of its deceased President, Mr. 

 J. Duncan Putnam, permit me, in this way, to express my deep-felt sorrow 

 at the death of a friend whom J esteemed, and one so untiringlj' and unself- 

 ishly devoted to the interests of Natural Science, and so beloved by all with 

 whom he came in contact. Of late years he battled so bravely with suffer- 

 ing that each time I have met him since our first meeting in 1873, he seemed 

 improved in general health and strength, and when at my house not many 

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