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THIS is a spacious, richly illustrated volume, finely printed on Normandy vellum, consisting of twenty-six valuable contributions to anthropological knowledge, a noble tribute in substance and form rendered by friends and associates to a master. To the true master nothing could be more delightful than an exhibition of excellent work done by those who live in his light and follow his leading. Few and brief are the biographical and eulogistic remarks about the recipient of this magnificent birthday present, but one feels his presence throughout the book, and no formal eulogy could have been more eloquent than the last paper in the series, “Bibliography of Frederic Ward Putnam,” by Frances H. Mead. In addition to very extensive “Editorial Labours,” a list is given of 404 items of publications. Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.
Putnam Anniversary Volume.
Anthropological Essays Presented to Frederic Ward Putnam, in Honour of his Seventieth Birthday, April 16, 1909. By his Friends and Associates. Pp. viii + 627. (New York: G. E. Stechert and Co., 1909.)
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GRIFFITH, J. Putnam Anniversary Volume . Nature 90, 457 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090457a0
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