Frederic Ward Putnam
Frederic Ward Putnam (16 April 1839, Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. – 14 August 1915, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American naturalist and anthropologist. He had little education, but became the student of Louis Agassiz at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University; later he was the curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University from 1874 to 1909. He directed archæological digs across 37 U.S. states and in other countries.
He published List of the Birds of Essex County (1856), originated The Naturalist's Directory (1865), and was one of the founders of the American Naturalist in 1867. In 1898 he was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1901 he was president of the American Folk Lore Society, and in 1905 he was president of the American Anthropological Association. He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of many foreign learned societies.
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