Word: putnams
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...recognition of his services for archeological study during the past 50 years, Professor F. W. Putnam '62, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has recently received, besides memorials from the Harvard Anthropological Club and the Century Association of New York, a noteworthy testimonial from the American Museum at New York. Professor Putnam has been given permission to select from the collection of that museum sufficient ethnological specimens to illustrate fully the life of the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands. This collection comprises the larger part of the ethnological exhibit of the Philippines as represented at the St. Louis World's Fair...
Another important addition is the figure of a Roman soldier, with reproductions of arms, from the Romisch-Germanisches Museum at Mainz. This statue, the gift of Mr. H. W. Putnam of Boston, is a companion figure to the Frankish warrior now in the Museum, and is intended to show the equipment of the Roman troops fighting on German territory in the first century...
...following books by Harvard graduates have recently been published: "A Short History of Italy," by H. D. Sedgwiek '82: "A Memoir of Dr. James Jackson," by J. J. Putnam '66; "Michigan," by T. M. Cooley h.'86; "The Great Adventure," by G. C. Lodge '95: "The Endless Life, by S. M. Crothers h.99 "Life More Abundent, being Scriptual Truth in Modern Application" by H. Wood...
Professor F. W. Putnam, Curator of the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology in his annual report to the President of the University enumerates numerous accessions which have been made to the Museum during the past year. As in former years, the collections representing the life and customs of the North American Indians have been greatly increased in value and interest by the gifts of Mr. L. H. Farlow...
...conclusion Professor Putnam states that the numerous accessions have been prepared for study, exhibition, or storage by Mr. C. C. Willoughby. In the arrangement of cases, Mr. Willoughby has added materially to the interest and importance of the various rooms by the addition of photographs, plans, and maps, as well as by his artistic arrangement of the specimens...