Mr. F. W. PUTNAM alluded to the high position which 

 Dr. Stimpson had taken in the ranks of science, and to 

 the esteem in which he had always been held by those 

 associated with him, and closed by proposing that a com- 

 mittee be appointed by the Institute to draw up a series 

 of resolutions expressive of the loss which it had sustained. 

 The committee, consisting of Messrs. Putnam, Bolles, 

 Johnson and Wheatland, afterwards reported the following 

 resolutions, which were unanimously adopted, and it was 

 voted that a copy be sent to the family of Dr. Stimpson, 

 and to the Chicago Academy of Sciences. 



Resolved: .That the Essex Institute has learned with 

 profound regret of the recent death of Dr. William 

 Stimpson, who has for so long a time been distinguished 

 as the foremost American student in Marine Zoology, and 

 whose loss to science is the. greater since it has occurred 

 in the midst of his successful labors to restore the fortunes 

 of that Institution which has owed so much to his eminent 

 attainments. 



Resolved: That even in the grief which this severe 

 affliction causes, the Essex Institute cannot but remember 

 with priiie that Dr. Stimpson's first acquaintance with the 

 department of investigation which he afterwards pursued 

 to such results, was made under its own auspices, and that 

 the records of its Field Meetings for 1849 will preserve 

 the honorable memorials of this beginning of his fame. 



Resolved : That the Secretary of the Institute be in- 

 structed to convey, by these Resolutions, to the family of 

 Dr. Stimpson and to the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 

 not only the assurances of the high appreciation in which 

 its members hold the scientific acquirements and labors of 

 their lamented friend, but also their earnest sympathy 

 with his relatives in the sorrow of their bereavement. 



