JESSE WALTER FEWKES

Fewkes, Jesse Walter ethnologist; born at Newton, Mass., Nov. 14, 1850. He was graduated from Harvard College, A.B., 1875, A.M. (in natural history) and Ph.D., 1877; then studied zoology at the University of Leipzig, 1878-1880. He was assistant at the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College, 1881-1889, editor of the Journal of Ethnology and Archaeology, 1890-1894 and since 1895 has been ethnologist of the Bureau of American Ethnology in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. Dr. Fewkes is a member of the National Academy of Sciences; member of the American Anthropological Association (president, 1911, 1912; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the American Society of Naturalists, American Folklore Society; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Washington Anthropological Society (president, 1909, 1910), and the Deutsche Anthropologische Gesellachaft; Antonio Alzarte, Mexico; Anthropological Society, Florence, etc. He is author of many monographs on American archaeology and ethnology, and is especially well-known for his researches in relation to the ceremonies of the Moqui Indians, and the ruins of the Southwest. He has also had charge of the excavation and repair of Casa Grande, Ariz., Cliff Palace and Spruce Tree House, in the Mesa Verde National Park, Colo., for the Smithsonian Institution and the Department of the Interior. He has written several pamphlets on the prehistoric inhabitants of the West Indies, the most important of which is a monograph on The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands," one of the yearly reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology. His contributions to zoology may be found in the publications of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College, and deal mainly with jellyfishes and other marine animals. He received, for his ethnological researches, a gold medal from King Oscar of Sweden, and the decoration, "Isabel la Catolica," grade of knight, from the Queen Regent of Spain. Dr. Fewkes married at Cambridge, Mass., April 4, 1898, Harriet O. Cutler. Address : Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Biographical sketches from the book, Men of 1914

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