Frederic Ward Putnam

Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam
Born	1839
Died	1915
Residence	Curator of the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. [1885] Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Occupation	anthropologist museum work
Society Membership membership corresponding member from 1884 Hon. Fellow left 1915 deceased elected_AI 1884.01.22 1892.12.13

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House Notes

1884.01.08 proposed as Corresponding Member
1892.11.08 proposed for Hon. Membership
death noted in the report of the council for 1915

Notes From Elsewhere

Frederic Ward Putnam (April 16, 1839 in Salem, Massachusetts – August 14, 1915 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American anthropologist.
In 1864 Putnam became the first director of the Peabody Museum of Salem. He was closely involved with convincing George Peabody to put up the money to found the museum. In 1867 he was appointed superintendent of the East Indian Marine Society's Museum at Salem.[5]
In 1874 Putnam became the curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University from 1874 to 1909.
Putnam was also active in professional organizations, which were rapidly organizing. In 1898 he was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1901 he was president of the American Folklore Society. In 1905 he was president of the American Anthropological Association. He was invited to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of many foreign learned societies.