PROF. FREDERIC W. PUTNAM 



He Was Prominent as a Scientist and 

 Historian and Had Been Connected with 

 the Faculty of Harvard Since 1874 



Professor Frederic Ward Putnam, who 

 died Saturday afternoon* - at his home, 149 

 Prattle street, Cambridge, following an 

 Illness of several weeks, had been nsso 

 elated with the faculty of Harvard U'niver 

 slty since 1874. He was prominent as i 

 scientist and historian. 



Processor Putnam was born in Balerr 

 April 1C, 1839 and was the son of Ebei 

 and Elizabeth Uvppleton) Putnam. H 

 received the degree of bachelor of scienci 

 from Harvard in 1S62, honorary degree: 

 of master of arts from Williams in J86S 

 and of doctor of science from the Univ 

 sity of Pennsylvania in 1894. 



From 1S56 until 1894 he was associated 

 with the Essex Institute and the East 

 India Marine Society, being vice pri 

 dent of the former from 1ST1 until 1894; 

 from 18C9 to 1SB6 he was director of mi; 

 of the Peabody Academy of Sciem 

 Salem; from 1S57 to 1SC1, and again fr 

 1876 to 1878 he was assistant in ichthy- 

 ology In the Museum of Comparative Zo- 

 ology; in 1874 he was an assistant with 

 the Geological Survey of Kentucky, and ir 

 1876-79 he was with the United State: 

 engineers on the survey west of the 100th 

 meridian. 



He was professor and director of the 

 Anthropological Museum of the Univers 

 of California from 1903 to 1909; State 

 Commissioner of Inland Fisheries fror 

 1882 to 18S9; chief of the department o 

 ethnology of the Chicago Expocltion 

 curator of anthropology of the America 

 Museum of Natural History, 1894 to 1903. 

 Professor Putnam was curator of the Fea- 

 body Museum of Harvard University 

 from 1874 until 1909, its honorary director 

 from 1909 to 1913 and its honorary direc- 

 tor In charge during 1913. From 1S86 until 

 1009 he was also professor of Americ 

 archceology and thenology; in 1910 he v 

 professor emeritus in these subjects, hut 

 until his last illness he maintained his in- 

 terest and worked In these branches. 



Professor Putnam received from tUe 

 French Government the decoration of the 

 Cross of the Legion of Honor, and 

 also had been honored with the Drexel 

 medal for archaeological research, 

 enjoyed membership in the National 

 Academy of Sciences, the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, the Massachusetts His- 

 torical Society and the American Anti- 

 quarian Society, and was a fellow of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sctencer 

 besides having close association with man: 

 foreign and State scientific societies. H 

 was a member of the Harvard Chapte; 

 Phi Beta Kappa, California Chapte 

 Sigma XL, Harvard Club of New York, 

 Colonial Club of Cambridge and the Fac- 

 ulty Club of California. Ho was the orig- 

 inator In 1805 of the Naturalists' Direc- 

 tory and also Its editor, and he was a 

 contributor to many scientific periodicals 

 and had edited all the publications of the 

 renbody Museum at Harvard since 1878, 

 Many valuable panarit on anthropoloiryi 

 and zoology aro from his pen. 



Ills first wife was Adelaide Martha Ed- 

 mands of Cambridge. Sho- died In 1870. 

 Three" voars later Professor Putnam mar- 

 ried Esther Orne Clarke of Chicago. She 

 and two daughters and a son survive him, 

 the daughters being Miss Alice Putnam o' 

 Cambridge and Mrs. John H. Lewis o 

 Minot, S. D., and the son, Eben Putnar 

 of Wellesley Farms, a local historian and 



