Frederic Ward Putnam
1839–1915
American archaeologist and anthropologist. Studied under Louis Agassiz. Curator of several museums in Massachusetts, and superintendent of the Museum of the Essex Institute, Salem, during the 1860s; director, Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, 1869–73, and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, from 1874. Permanent secretary, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1873–98; president from 1898.
Sources
DAB
DSB.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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