Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...connection with the work of the museum Professor Putnam had been carrying on investigations in different parts of the continent. The most important and most productive explorations have been going on in the Little Miami Valley. Here two camps have been established, one at the Turner group where Professor Putnam and Dr. Metz have been exploring for the past ten years: the other about twenty miles further up the river. At the former camp two ancient hearths have been found in the gravels, one of which, the "Cresson Hearth," is the largest ever found. Among the skeletons found...
...great amount of work that is going on at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The collections in the museum are very valuable, and a great deal of original investigation is being carried on in Mexico and Central America under the charge of Professor F. W. Putnam, the curator of the museum. These investigations are proving very successful and the results obtained will be of the utmost value for ethnological study...
This department has already been in operation for a year. A recent gift of $30,000 for a fellowship has been made by Mrs. Mary Copley Shaw of Pitts burgh. This fellowship has been awarded to Miss Alice C. Fletcher. The department will be open only to graduates. Professor Putnam now becomes a member of the Faculty...
...second lecture in the course to promote the fund for the Wendell Phillips Hall will take place at Tremont Temple this evening, Rev. A. P. Putnam, D. D., will lecture on "The Old Guard." The price of tickets is from 20 to 50 cents...
...poetry is contributed by Austin Dobson, Celia Thaxter, Kate Putnam Osgood, W. W. Campbell, Henry Morton and G. P. Lathrop. A "heavy article" is Lyman Aboott's "Can a Nation have a Religion...