A Vindication of the Authenticity of the Elephant Pipes and Inscribed Tablets in the Museum of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences

by Charles Edwin Putnam

A vindication of authenticity, from an all knowing expert in the field, of what are obviously elephant pipes luxuriating on a bed of inscribed platypus tablets, against the accusations of the so-called bureau of ethnology...

56 pages

First published January 1, 1885

About the author

Charles Edwin Putnam (1825-1887) was president of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences. Charles Edwin Putnam married Mary Louisa Duncan and had 11 children. He passed away on 19 July 1887 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa.