Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the Emperor of Japan, at the Parker House Saturday night, Professor Putnam replied to the toast to Harvard University and Dr. Holmes to the toast to American literature...
...large audience was present in Sever 11 last evening to hear Dr. F. W. Putnam's lecture on "Recent Discoveries in American Archaeology." Dr. Putnam was detailed by the Peabody Museum last summer to investigate and report upon the contents of the mounds in the Little Miami valley, and accordingly, in company with Dr. Metz of Washington, he was employed from May until December in conducting a series of explorations, which have resulted in adding largely to the stock of information possessed concerning the American mound builders. In his lecture last evening Dr. Putnam was necessarily unable to describe...
...have been kept burning in them for long periods of time. In these mounds were found a number of human skeletons, which from the position in the ashes of the remains prove conclusively that these people were not cannibals but cremationists. Among the many interesting relics found by Dr. Putnam were a number of copper ornaments, arrowheads composed of different substances, terra cotta images illustrative of the dress and appearance of the people, plates of mica, specimens of native gold and silver, sea shells, hatchets, together with the bones of various animals, and, above all, several specimens of meteorie iron...
...Putnam, curator of the Peabody Museum, will deliver a lecture in Sever 11 this evening at 7.30 under the auspices of the Harvard Historical Society on "Recent Discoveries in American Archaeology." The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon views...
Harvard Historical Society. Recent Discoveries in American Archaeology (illustrated with stereopticon views). Mr. F. W. Putnam. Sever...