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Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1886-1909; Emeri- 

 tus; 1909-1915; State Commissioner of Fish and Game, Massa- 

 chusetts, 1882-1889; Chief, Department of Ethnology, World's 

 Columbian Exposition, 1891-1894; Curator of Anthropology, Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, New York, 1894-1903; Professor of 

 Anthropology and Director of the Anthropological Museum of the 

 University of California, 1903-1909; Emeritus, 1909. 



Vice-President, Essex Institute, 1871-94; Boston Society of 

 Natural History, 1880-87, and President, 1887-89; President, 

 American Folklore Society, 1891 ; of the Boston Branch of the Society, 

 1890-1915; President, American Association for the x\dvancement of 

 Science, 1898; Vice-President, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society 

 of Philadelphia, 1896-1915; Vice-President for the United States, 

 International Congress of Americanists, New York 1902; Chairman, 

 Division of Anthropology of the International Congress of Arts and 

 Sciences, St. Louis, 1904; President, American Anthropological 

 Association, 1905-6. 



Professor Putnam received the following honorary degrees ; — 

 from Williams College, 1868, A.M.; University of Pennsylvania, 

 1894, S.D. From the French Government he received the Cross of 

 the Legion of Honor in 1896. 



R. B. Dixon. 



FERDINAND, FREIHERR VON RICHTHOFEN (1833-1905) 



Foreign Honorary Member in Class II, Section 1, 1901. 



Ferdinand, Freiherr von Richthofen, Professor of Physical Geog- 

 raphy in the University of Berlin, and eminent both as a geol- 

 ogist and geographer, died on October 6, 1905, in his 73d year. He 

 was best known for his researches in China, and especially for his 

 solution of the problem of the origin of loess. 



Baron von Richthofen was born of a distinguished Silesian family 

 at Karlsruhe on May 5, 1833. His early education was received in 

 his native town and later in Breslau where he first studied geology. 

 Two years of university studies in Breslau did not greatly interest 

 him, so in 1852 he went to Berlin where he came in contact with 

 Beyiich and with Karl Ritter. While at the LTniversity, working 



