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ice-covered land " must be the western edge of 

 Termination Land. 



I explained this matter fully in an article 

 " Termination Land." "^ That article was 

 commented on in Germany at length by Dr. 

 Singer," who concluded that there was no 

 reason for leaving the name " Termination 

 Land " off the charts, and who also published 

 with his article an excellent map proving that 

 Termination Land and Drygalski's high land 

 are one. It was also commented on by Dr. H. 

 Wichmann" who stated likewise that there 

 was no cause for taking the name Termina- 

 tion Land off the charts; and by Dr. H. 

 Haaek," who wrote that Drygalski's assump- 

 tion could not be kept upright. That is to 

 say, three leading German geographical au- 

 thorities entirely agree with me as to 

 Drygalski's high ice-covered land being Termi- 

 nation Land. 



Edwin Swift Balch 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 

 Putnam Anniversary Volume. Anthropolog- 

 ical Essays presented to Frederic Ward 

 Putnam in Honor of his Seventieth Birth- 

 day, April 16, 1909, by his Friends and As- 

 sociates. New York, G. E. Stechert & Co. 

 1909. 



The pupils, colleagues and friends of Pro- 

 fessor Frederic Ward Putnam have chosen the 

 very happy and suitable method of celebrating 

 his seventieth birthday by presenting him 

 with a volume of original anthropological es- 

 says. I had the pleasure of first meeting Pro- 

 fessor Putnam at the Toronto meeting of the 

 British Association in 1897 and was at once 

 charmed by his personality. Since then I 

 have renewed my friendship with him on every 

 possible occasion, and have been more and 

 more impressed with his enthusiasm and 

 knowledge. I have seen the results of his 

 labors in Cambridge, New York and Berk- 



" The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XV., 

 May, 1904, p. 221. 



" Globus, Vol. 86, No. 4, p. 63. 



" Petermann's Geographischen Mitteilungen, 

 1904, Heft VII., p. 2. 



^ Geographischer Anzeiger, 1904, IX., p. 201. 



eley and have learned from his pupils how 

 much they are indebted to him for their train- 

 ing, guidance and wise counsel. But in addi- 

 tion to gratitude for these advantages they 

 feel a personal affection for the man himself, 

 which is shared also by his colleagues at 

 home, in England and elsewhere. It is as an 

 honored and beloved master that his former 

 pupils and friends offer this tribute. 



It is manifestly impossible to give an ac- 

 count of the twenty-five essays, but the follow- 

 ing statement will give some idea of their 

 scope. A bibliography of over four hundred 

 items indicates Professor Putnam's activity, 

 but many of these are notes and annual re- 

 ports. It is interesting to find that Professor 

 Putnam, like so many anthropologists, started 

 his scientific life as a zoologist; for ten years 

 he was curator of ornithology in the Essex 

 Institute and later took charge of the Verte- 

 brata. Though most of his zoological papers 

 deal with vertebrates, he also published a few 

 papers on invertebrates. In 1869 he published 

 the first annual report of the Peabody Acad- 

 emy of Science, and his last purely zoological 

 paper was published in 1879. 



By far the greater part of Professor Put- 

 nam's anthropological work was in the domain 

 of archeology, so it is fitting that the first 

 essay should be on " The Archeology of Cali- 

 fornia," by an old pupil, A. L. Kroeber; thirty 

 years previously Professor Putnam had writ- 

 ten on the subject, and it is well known that 

 the anthropological school of the University 

 of California owes much to his wise direction. 

 This essay gives a bird's-eye-view of what has 

 since been accomplished, and enables us to 

 form some estimate of the civilization of the 

 ancient inhabitants of California. Among 

 the archeological papers is a beautifully illus- 

 trated memoir on " Ancient Zuni Pottery," 

 by J. Walter Fewkes, which gives a needed 

 synopsis of the old types of decorated vessels 

 of the Zun.i, and the conclusion is drawn that 

 the radical difference in the symbolism of pre- 

 historic and modern Zuni pottery confirms 

 legendary evidence of the dual composition of 

 the tribe. Charles C. Willoughby describes 



