Notice of the late Dr. Waldo Irving Burnett. 257 
given almost exclusively to natural history and microscopic ob- 
servation. ‘The expectations of intellectual progress which he 
now: looked forward to with so much interest, were soon doomed 
to severe disappointment. It was in Paris that he received the 
first serious warning that consumption, the disease which event- 
ually destroyed his life, had already marked him for its early vic- 
tim. After an absence of only four months, he re-embarked for 
America, to receive the benefit of a more genial climate in one 
of the southern states, and each successive winter he passed either 
in Carolina, Georgia or Florida, in order to avoid the inclement 
and uncongenial climate of New England. He had now no perma- 
tunity for investigation presented itself, he was always ready with 
‘cheerful heart and patient industry to enter upon his work. 
_* His vari ienti . bstracts of them may be found in the Proceed- 
gs, also ia the Jowrnal or the Boston Society of Natural History. In the Pro- 
8 of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, ia the Proceedings and in 
Stconp Serres, Vol. XVIII, No. 53—Sept., 1854. 3 
