Frederic Ward Putnam Bibliography
Putnam authored, co-authored, and edited over 400 publications in his career. A complete bibliography was prepared in Tozzer (1935) and later reprinted in Phillips (1973). Putnam played a major role in founding the discipline of anthropology in the U.S., and his work between 1874 and 1915 led to the establishment of institutions that would later become centers of anthropological research: Harvard's Peabody Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology; the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago; the American Museum of Natural History in New York; and the Department of Anthropology and Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC-Berkeley.
Abbott, C. C.
1886 Frederic Ward Putnam. Popular Science Monthly 29:693-697.
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1867a Proceedings of Scientific Societies. The American Naturalist 1(8):442-448.
1867b Review: Observations Upon the Cranial Forms of the American Aborigines. The American Naturalist 1(3):152-153.
1915a Frederic Ward Putnam. Quarterly Journal of the Society for American Indians 3(3):224–227.
1915b Frederic Ward Putnam. The Scientific Monthly 1(3):305-306.
1915c Frederic Ward Putnam. Science 42(1088):638-639.
Benjamin, M.
1898 Frederic Ward Putnam. Scientific American 79(9):131.
Boas, F.
1902 The Development of the American Museum of Natural History: The Department of Anthropology. American Museum Journal 2:47–53.
1903 The Jesup North Pacific Expedition. American Museum Journal 3:79–119.
1915 Frederic Ward Putnam. Science 42(1080):330–332.
Boas, F. (editor)
1909 Putnam Anniversary Volume: Anthropological Essays Presented to Frederic Ward Putnam in Honor of his 70th Birthday, April 16, 1909, by His Friends and Associates. Stechert & Co., New York.
Browman, D. L.
2002a Frederic Ward Putnam: Contributions to the Development of Archaeological Institutions and Encouragement of Women Practitioners. In New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology, edited by D. L. Browman and S. Williams, pp. 209–241. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2002b Origins of Stratigraphic Excavation in North America: The Peabody Museum Method and the Chicago Method. In New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology, edited by D. L. Browman and S. Williams, pp. 242–264. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2002c The Peabody Museum, Frederic W. Putnam, and the Rise of U.S. Anthropology, 1866–1903. American Anthropologist 104(2):508–519.
Brown, E. H.
1949 Harvard and the Ohio Mounds. The New England Quarterly 22(2):205–228.
Dexter, R. W.
1956 The Early American Naturalist as Revealed by Letters to the Founders. The American Naturalist 90(853):209–225.
1965a Contributions of Frederic Ward Putnam to Ohio Archaeology. The Ohio Journal of Science 65(3):110-117.
1965b The "Salem Secession" of Agassiz Zoologists. Essex Institute Historical Collections 101(1):27-39.
1966a Contributions of Frederic Ward Putnam to the Development of Anthropology in California. Science Education 50:314–318.
1966b Frederick Ward Putnam and the Development of Museums of Natural History and Anthropology in the United States. Curator 9(2):150–155.
1966c Putnam's Problems Popularizing Anthropology. American Scientist 54(3):315–332.
1970 The Role of F.W. Putnam in Founding the Field Museum. Curator 13(1):21–26.
1976 The Role of F.W. Putnam in Developing Anthropology at The American Museum of Natural History. Curator 19(4):303–310.
1978 Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner: Frederic Ward Putnam and the Support of Women in Anthropology. History of Anthropology Newsletter 5(1):5-6.
1980 F.W. Putnam's Role in Developing the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. Curator 23(3):183-194.
1982a F.W. Putnam as Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1873-1898). Essex Institute Historical Collections 118:106-118.
1982b The Putnam-Metz Correspondence on Mound Explorations in Ohio. Ohio Archaeologist 32(4):24-28.
1984a "Dear Alice": Letters of F.W. Putnam to his Daughter (1874-1914). Essex Institute Historical Collections 120:110-131.
1984b F.W. Putnam's Scientific Studies at Mammoth Cave (1871-1881. National Speleological Society Bulletin 46:10-14.
1985 Contributions of F.W. Putnam (1839-1915) to Archaeoethnobiology. Journal of Ethnobiology 5(2):135-141.
1989 The Putnam-Kroeber Relations in the Development of American Anthropology. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 11(1):91-96.
1990 The F.W. Putnam-Edward Palmer Relations in the Development of Early American Ethnobotany. Journal of Ethnobotany 10(1):35-41.
Dixon, R. B.
1915 Frederic Ward Putnam. Harvard Graduates Magazine 24:305–308.
1916 Frederic Ward Putnam. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 51:920-921.
Gray, A.
1875 Report of the Curator. In Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, pp. 7-11, Cambridge.
Howard, L. O.
1915 Which of the Present Members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Have Held the Longest Continuous Membership? Science 42(1092):791-792.
Jacknis, I.
2002 The First Boasian: Alfred Kroeber and Franz Boas, 1896-1905. American Anthropologist 104(2):520-532.
Kroeber, A. L.
1915 Frederic Ward Putnam. American Anthropologist 17(4):712–718.
Lyman, R. L. and M. J. O'Brien
1999 Americanist Stratigraphic Excavation and the Measurement of Culture Change. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 6(1):55-108.
Mark, J.
1980 Four Anthropologists: An American Science in Its Early Years. Science History Publications, New York.
McGee, W. J.
1898 The Section of Anthropology at Ithaca. Science 7(159):53-54.
Morse, E. S.
1916 Frederic W. Putnam, 1839–1915; An Appreciation. Essex Institute Historical Collections 52:193–196.
Murowchick, R. E.
1990 A Curious Sort of Yankee: Personal and Professional Notes on Jeffries Wyman (1814-1874). Southeastern Archaeology 9(1):55-66.
Peabody, C.
1915 Frederic Ward Putnam. Journal of American Folklore 28(109):302–306.
Peary, R. E., F. W. Putnam and R. W. Dexter
1969 Correspondence between Lieutenant R. E. Peary and Professor F. W. Putnam on Arctic Ethnology. Ethnohistory 16(2):177-189.
Phillips, P. (editor)
1973 The Archaeological Reports of Frederic Ward Putnam: Selected from the Annual Reports of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University 1875–1903 (with a New Introduction by Philip Phillips, Honorary Curator of Southeastern Archaeology, Peabody Museum). 8. AMS Press, New York.
Putnam, F. W.
1876 Report of the Curator. In Ninth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, pp. 7-23, Cambridge.
1886 The Peabody Museum's Explorations in Ohio. The American Naturalist 20(12):1017–1027.
1887 The Proper Method of Exploring an Earthwork. Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 1:60-62.
1893 Letter: Memorial to Henry Wheatland. In Essex Institute, Henry Wheatland, Born January 11, 1812, Died February 27, 1893; Founder of the Essex Institute 1847-1848; Its Secretary and Treasurer 1848-1868, Its President 1868-1893, pp. 60-63. Essex Institute, Salem.
1895 The History, Aims and Importance of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Science 2(33):171-174.
1899 A Problem in American Anthropology. Science 10(243):225-236.
1973 [1885] On Methods of Archaeological Research. In The Selected Archaeological Papers of Frederic Ward Putnam, edited by S. Williams, pp. 1-5. Antiquities of the New World: Early Explorations in Archaeology. vol. 5. AMS Press, New York.
1973 [1913] The Completion of the Great Museum. In The Selected Archaeological Papers of Frederic Ward Putnam, edited by S. Williams, pp. 239-242. Antiquities of the New World: Early Explorations in Archaeology. vol. 5. AMS Press, New York.
Putnam, F. W., C. C. Abbott, S. S. Haldeman, H. C. Yarrow, H. W. Henshaw, L. Carr and A. S. Gatschet
1879 Reports upon Archaeological and Ethnological Collections from Vicinity of Santa Barbara, California, and from Ruined Pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico, and Certain Interior Tribes; With Appendix of Indian Vocabularies. Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian VII: Archaeology. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.
Putnam, F. W., A. S. Packard Jr., A. Hyatt and E. S. Morse
1867 Introductory. The American Naturalist 1(1).
Sheftel, P. S.
1979 The Archaeological Institute of America, 1879-1979: A Centennial Review. American Journal of Archaeology 83(1):3-17.
Thwing, C. F.
1881 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, pp. 670–678. vol. 63.
Tozzer, A. M.
1909 The Putnam Anniversary. American Anthropologist 11(2):285–288.
1935 Bibliographic Memoir of Frederic Ward Putnam, 1839–1915 (Presented to the Academy at the Annual Meeting, 1933). In Biographical Memoirs, pp. 125–153. Fourth Memoir. vol. 16. National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington D.C.
Williams, S. (editor)
1973 The Selected Archaeological Papers of Frederic Ward Putnam (with an Introduction by Stephen Williams, Director, Peabody Museum). Antiquities of the New World: Early Explorations in Archaeology, vol. 5. AMS Press, New York.
Wissler, C.
1915 Frederic Ward Putnam. American Museum Journal 15:315–317.
