The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . g sev-eral churches, a high school and school buildings,one national bank, one savings bank; has manu-factures of silk, cotton, woolen goods, boots,shoes and slippers, steam-heaters, cutlery andcarriages. There are several lumber-yards andwood-working plants. Population 1900, 6,667. PUTNAM, Frederick Ward, an American an-thropologist; born in Salem, Massachusetts, April16, 1839. In 1856 he entered the Lawrence Sci-entific School under Professor Agassiz; on thefoundation of the Peabody Academy of Sciencein 1
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . g sev-eral churches, a high school and school buildings,one national bank, one savings bank; has manu-factures of silk, cotton, woolen goods, boots,shoes and slippers, steam-heaters, cutlery andcarriages. There are several lumber-yards andwood-working plants. Population 1900, 6,667. PUTNAM, Frederick Ward, an American an-thropologist; born in Salem, Massachusetts, April16, 1839. In 1856 he entered the Lawrence Sci-entific School under Professor Agassiz; on thefoundation of the Peabody Academy of Sciencein 1867, became director of the museum; becamepermanent secretary of the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science in 1873, and in1875 curator of the Peabody Museum of Archae-ology and Ethnology at Cambridge. From 1876to 1878 he had charge of the Agassiz collectionof fishes at the Museum of Comparative Zoology,and in 1886 was appointed professor of Americanarchjeology and ethnology at Harvard. He waschief of the department of anthropology at the PUTNAM —PUVIS DE CHAVANNES ^21. 1856, was re-established Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. PUTNAM, George Palmer, an American pub-lisher; born in Brunswick, Maine, Feb. 21, 1814; entered a bookstore inNew York in 1828; be-came a partner in thepublishing house ofWiley and Putnam in1840; resided in London(1840-47), conducting abranch house; returnedto New York and beganbusiness on his own ac-count in 1848; with theassistance of GeorgeWilliam Curtis,establish-ed Putnams Magazine,which ran from 1853 toin 1868, and merged withScribners Monthly in 1870. He was collector ofinternal revenue in New York from 1863 to 1866,when, with his sons, he founded the publish-ing house of G. P. Putnam and Sons (now G. Sons). He was one of the founders ofthe Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 1872 itshonorary superintendent. He was also appointedchairman of the committee on art in connectionwith the Vienna Universal Exposition.
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