48 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



history of Salem, but I have been a busy man and many 

 other things have claimed my attention and made impos- 

 sible what would be for me a task of the most a2:reeable 

 description. 



The President said : 



You will all agree with me that this commemoration 

 would be incomplete without a word of respectful tribute 

 to the memory of Henry Wheatland, and I know of no 

 one better fitted, in his training and career, to pronounce 

 that word, than the President of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, a Salem boy, an 

 early associate of the Institute, grown up under the tute- 

 lage of Doctor Wheatland himself. May I ask Professor 

 Putnam to say a word in memory of Doctor Wheatland? 



Professor Frederick Ward Putnam spoke in substance as 

 follows : 



He said he had attended the twenty-fifth anniversary of 

 the Essex Institute and had then promised himself that, 

 if he lived, he would attend the fiftieth. 



He had been early on intimate terms with Doctor 

 Wheatland, who had for some reason taken a ver}'' special 

 and active interest in his development. He became when 

 a mere boy a member of the Institute. It was then but 

 seven or eight years old. Under its influence and guid- 

 ance he developed those tastes for natural science and for 

 critical observation which had shaped his life. 



He could not fail to pay his tribute, humble though it 

 be, to Doctor Wheatland. The dear old Doctor, ever 

 busy for the good of others, had befriended and encour- 

 aged him in his special pursuit — the study of the bird, 

 fish and reptile life of Essex County — and it should be 

 especially known and remembered that Doctor Wheatland 



