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Art. XX XIL—WNotice of the Life and Writings of the late Dr. 
Waldo Irving Burnett; read before the Boston Society of 
Natural History, July 19th, 1854, in accordance with a vote 
passed at the previous meeeting. By Jerrrres Wyman, M.D. 
Mr. President—F rom time to time Death has entered our 
circle, and taken from our number one and another of those 
who have been our most active associates, and to whom we have 
been bound by the ties of personal regard or of friendship. In 
nearly every instance they have been removed in full manhood, 
or even at a later period, when the labors of a life of the ordinary 
_ length had been nearly finished. But never before has there 
been taken from amongst us one who, in his devotion to natural 
science, has, in so brief a life, left so many memorials of zeal and 
industry as he, to whose memory we would now pay our tribute 
of res 
Watvo Irvine Burnetr was born in the town of Southboro’, 
Mass., July 12th, 1828. His father (the late Dr. Joel Burnett) 
was a man of distinguished excellence in his profession, and to 
the qualities of a good and useful citizen united those of an ar- 
dent lover of nature, of whose works he was a close and faithful 
observer. Botany and Entomology especially received his atten- 
tion, and without the aid of genial spirits, or the intercourse with 
kindre minds, were studied with no ordinary zeal during the few 
leisure moments which were left him after the demands upon his 
he at first extended with delight, he was soon, though reluctant- 
ly, obliged to substitute restraint. His son’s mind was too in- 
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“lent, and drew from his teacher the confession that in this de- 
