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have had the pleasure of friendly correspondence and occasional personal 

 intercourse with liim, and have admired and loved him from tlie beginning, 

 for his earnest purpose, conscientious and enthusiastic performance of the 

 duties he has undertaken, and great modesty. I liave esteemed it a privilege 

 and an honor to be associated with him nominally in some of the work 

 which I have done myself. And in testifying to his noble qualities it gives 

 me pleasure to recognize the influence of liis mother in the formation and 

 fostering of that character. 



Very respectfully, yours, 



B. PICKMAN MANN. 



From Prop. A. S. Packard, Jr., Editor American Naturalist. 



Providence, R. I., January 2d, 1882. 

 C. H. Preston and Others, 



Committee of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences: 

 Gentlemen: Allow me by letter to express my sense of the great loss 

 experienced not only by the Academy, but also by the city of Davenport, and 

 the State of Iowa, in the death of so active, public spirited, unselfish a man 

 as the late J. Duncan Putnam. It is rare that so young a man, so modest 

 and retiring, rather a student than a man of affairs, impresses himself upon 

 a community in so marked a manner. I knew Mr. Putnam jiersonally, hav- 

 ing met him once, and also by letter. Our studies were on kindred sul)jects, 

 and I entertained a high regard for his zeal, accuracy and conscientiousness 

 in research. I have watched with much interest his career, liis public spirit 

 in building up the Academy, which owes so much to his untiring efforts. 

 We cannot cherish too carefully the memory of such men who are in a new 

 country devoting themselves to the pursuit of truth for its own sake, to the 

 cause of higher education, to all that tends to elevate mankind, and makes 

 the world better and happier. His monument has already been erected in 

 the scientific papers he has left behind him, and in the Academy of which, 

 if I mistake not, he was one of the founders, and whose building he was so 

 largely instrumental in erecting. His memory should be cherished, and his 

 example be imitated by the young men of his city and State. 

 I am, with great respect, 



Very truly, yours, 



A. S. PACKARD, Jr. 



From Henry Ulke, Washington, D. C. 



Washington, D. C, January 3d, 1882. 

 Gentlemen: Your kind invitation to be present at tlie meeting to the 

 memory of your late President of tlie Academy, J. Duncan Putnam, has been 

 received, but I am very sorry to say, that time and circumstances will not 

 permit me to join you on that occasion. 



In Duncan Putnam I have lost not only a dear good friend, but also an 

 ardent fellow laborer in the field of entomology. His loss to this branch of 

 science is really great. 



