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George Byron Gordon, M. R. Harring- 
ton, A. Hrdlicka, A. L. Kroeber, Charles 
W. Mead, Warren K. Moorehead, 
George H. Pepper, Marshall H. Saville 
and Harlan I. Smith. 
When Professor Putnam was invited 
to the American Museum by President 
Morris K. Jesup, there had as yet been 
no important anthropological expedi- 
tions. At once Professor Putnam began 
to solicit funds and soon had important 
work under way. Among the most 
important expeditions were the Hyde 
explorations in the Southwest, resulting 
in the famous discoveries at Pueblo 
Bonito by George H. Pepper; the 
Loubat Mexican expedition by Marshall 
H. Saville; the organization of the Jesup 
North Pacific work under the direction 
of Professor Boas; and the Villard expe- 
dition to Peru under A. F. Bandelier. 
Under his own personal supervision 
were the exploration of the Delaware 
Valley for traces of early man and the 
archeological investigations in the vicin- 
ity of New York Bay. The field work 
for the former was conducted by Ernest 
Volk, and the latter by M. R. Harring- 
Each of these undertakings yielded 
important results and their published 
ton. 
reports are conspicuous in anthropologi- 
cal reference literature. In these, as in 
all other undertakings, Professor Put- 
nam’s chief work was administrative, 
but it was the kind of work that made 
possible these several researches bearing 
the names of others. 
In the main the history of Professor 
Putnam’s call to the American Museum 
can be read in the following quotation, 
from his own report to the trustees of the 
Peabody Museum: 
During the spring the trustees of the New 
York Museum offered to me the position of 
curator of the department of anthropology 
of that museum, with the understanding that 
I was to reorganize the department on a broad 
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basis, to plan for its future development and 
for exploration, and to direct its work. The 
opportunities here offered were in every way 
worthy of my most earnest consideration; 
_ but I felt that I could not leave the Peabody 
Museum to which for the last twenty years I 
have given my thought and my work. After 
several conferences with the trustees of both 
museums and with the president of the Uni- 
versity, it was finally arranged that I should 
continue my duties in Cambridge both in the 
museum and in the college, and should also 
accept the position of curator of anthropol- 
ogy in the New York Museum to which I 
should give one week each month. Thus since 
the first of June I have held both positions, and 
have so arranged my duties as to take one 
week of each month for my work in New 
York. This arrangement has thus far proved 
possible and I trust satisfactory to all con- 
cerned. My field of usefulness is certainly 
increased, and I am confident that mutual 
benefit will result from thus bringing into 
perfect harmony two important centres of 
anthropological research. The aims of the 
two museums are different, and _ perfect 
coéperation and harmony between them can- 
not fail to result in benefit to science.— F. W. 
PUTNAM 
A continuation of the history of Pro- 
fessor Putnam’s connection with the 
American Museum is set forth in the 
following quotation from a report of 
1903 by Morris K. Jesup, the late presi- 
dent of the American Museum: 
Professor Putnam was appointed curator 
of anthropology in the spring of 1894. At 
that time the exhibition of the collections 
relating to Man was confined to what is now 
the shell hall on the fifth floor, and the west- 
ern half of the bird gallery on the third floor. 
There had been no systematic explorations, 
no scientific publications, and the head of the 
department had but a _ single assistant. 
Within these ten years the department has 
grown until, at the present time, the collec- 
tions occupy eight large exhibition halls and 
twelve storage rooms. Explorations have 
been made throughout America and parts of 
Asia, the scientific publications fill a score of 
volumes, and the present department staff 
includes no less than seven men of recognized 
scientific attainments—— Morris K. Jesup 
