Word: putnams
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...books lately published by Putnam's Sons is a new translation of the first six books of the AEneid, by Henry Hamilton. The author prefaces the book with an apology for adding another translation to the already large number. Feeling, however, that Conington has not wholly succeeded in bringing out the spirit of the original, he has tried to improve on the latter's work It must be confessed that Mr. Hamilton has attempted a formidable task in entering into competition with so illustrious a translator as Conington. The author of this new edition has succeeded fairly well in what...
...Virgil's AEneid. The first six books translated by Henry Hamilton. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York...
...Natural History, held Tuesday evening, Professor C. H. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth, read a paper. Part of the evening was devoted to the presentation of new evidences of Paleolithic man in America. Prof. G. F. Wright, of Oberlin, described the geology of Delaware and Indiana, and Professor F. W. Putnam, of Harvard, exhibited specimens from the Peabody Museum, and made remarks upon them and upon the "Rabbit" specimens, about which there has been recently a misstatement...
...seventh ten of the Institute of 1770 from '91 are: Osgood, Van Rensselaer, Garceau, Stickney, Crowninshield, Putnam, Morrison, Bass, Everett, Davis...
Professor Putnam states that the last recorded burial of Indians in Winthrop took place in 1650, so it is certain that these remains are older than that. It is stated that all the land owned by the railroad in that vicinity will be excavated in the spring under the direction of Professor Putnam...