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BY If. H/ 'HOLMES

IN XJf- VOLUMES

CALLINGS, LARGELY PERSONAL, FROM THE
SCRAP HEAP OF THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN
DEVOTED TO SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND ART

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SECTION I Story of the Random Records; Introduction;

Biographic Periods; Brief Biography and an
Outline Biography from "Who's Who."

SECTION II Positions held. Public and Private, and

Appointments. Trips Abroad.

SECTION IE The Loubat Prizes for Archeological Research.

SECTION IV Honorary Appointments, Memberships and Awards.

SECTION V Societies and Clubs, Scientific, Artistic,
Literary, Social, etc.

SECTION VI Bibliography.

SECTION I

VOLUME I

STORY OF THE RANDOM RECORDS
INTRODUCTION
BIOGRAPHIC PERIODS
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

OUTLINE BIOGRAPHY FROM "WHO'S MO"

STORY OF THE "RANDOM RECORDS"

When, in the later years of the 1920-30 period,

I came to realize that I was approaching my official age
limit, I began looking over my affairs with a view of
rounding up as far as possible the ragged edges of my
life work.

in 1926

I talked with Dr'. Walcott /indicating my readi-
ness to retire from the service, and thus open the way for
the selection of a suitable successor, but he did not
think it advisable to take action at that time. I began,
however, to prepare for the change. There were numerous
matters that seemed to require attention. One thing es-
pecially insisted on intruding itself upon my attention -
the great accumulation of unfinished work. My files were
burdened with no end of diaries, field notes, and unpublish-
ed papers covering a period of sixty years; with accumula-
tions of loosely assembled data, in pen, pencil and water
colors and photographs that could not .be utilized save in
a very limited way by those who might happen to follow me.

A plan was finally adopted that promised in part at least
to overcome the difficulty. The extremely varied accumu-
lations were assembled in groups, largely chronological,
to be bound at my own expense, for deposit in the Library
of the National G-allery of Art or the Institution,- the volumes
from 16 on to go to my sons if they wish.

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wards of a score of volumes are assembled and so far edited
as to he practically ready for binding. I have called
these nRandom Records.” Ho attempt is made to write a
story, hut the indexing for each volume will enable the
inquirer to find the particular features of the record that
may interest him. The series of volumes begins with a
brief biography, a simple outline of my three-quarters of
a century of contact with the world of affairs, and more
than half a century association with the Smithsonian Insti-
tution. Two of the volumes XUland Xlty must prove especially
interesting to the future personnel of the Institution as
they embody upwards of one hundred photographic portraits
of Smithsonian people, all of whom I know or have known
personally. The list begins appropriately with the

portrait of Secretary Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of
the Institution.

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The activities of upwards of half a century,
mainly in Government service, are recorded in a multi-
tude of publications of the Hayden Survey of the Terri-
tories, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum,

the Bureau of American Ethnology and the National Gallery

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of Art, beginning with 1871 and ending with 1928, and to
some extent in the publications of the Pan American Union
and the Interior and State Departments.

Unofficial records occur in numerous scientific
and art journals including Science, the American Anthro-
pologist, Art and Archeology and the American Magazine of
Art. Also in the Field Columbian Museum Reports for 1894
and 1896, including especially the volume on the Ancient
Ruins of Yucatan, 1895 and in reports of the Department
of Geology of the University of Chicago. See also the
bibliography appended to this volume.

Attention was not given to the writing of a formal
personal biography until I was in my 83rd year, and all
that could be done was to assemble and bind in volumes such
selections from the great mass of refuse of a life time,
scientific, artistic and personal, as might possibly prove

of interest to present. and future generations of Smith-

sonian people* I was born on the same day with the
Institution and have been associated more or less closely
with all its people from Professor Henry down, and have
come to regard myself as an original predestined member
of the family. These imperfectly edited volumes of
fragments, together with a number of paintings, are all
that I have to contribute personally and unofficially
to the Institution’s diversified and fast multiplying
heritage. tJlMi

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BIOGRAPHIC PERIODS, 1846 - 1931

I. Period of Childhood, Schooling and School Teach-
ing, December 1, 1846-1869.

II. Hormal College, Graduation and Teacher in, 1865-1871.

III. Art Student in Washington, 1871-1872.

IV. Artist in the Smithsonian Institution, 1871-1872.

V. Artist on the Survey of the Territories, 1872-1874.

VI. Geologist on the Survey of the Territories, 1874-1879.

VII. In Europe, Student of Art and Archeology, 1879-1880.

VIII. Geologist-Archeologist and Artist on the U. S. Geological
Survey, 1880-1889

IX. Archeologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1889-1894.

X. Curator of Anthropology , Field Museum and Professor
of Anthropic Geology in the University of Chicago,
1094-1987 .

XI. Head Curator, Department of Anthropology (including
History, Ethnology and Art) U. S. national Museum,
1897-1902.

XII. Chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1909.

XIII. Head Curator, Department of Anthropology , U. S. national
Museum, and Curator, national Gallery of Art, 1906-1920.

XIV.

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ARTIST, GEOLOGIST, ARCHEOLOGIST AMD ART GALLERY DIRECTOR.

1846-1930

The subject of this sketch was horn December 1, 1846
in the home of his parents, Joseph and Mary Heberling Holmes,
near the city of Cadiz, Ohio, the home farm beiug one of the sub-
divisions of the original grant to his grandfather in 1800. The
house was on the Cadiz St. Clairsville road, four and one-half
miles south of Cadiz. As recorded in Colonel Holmes r work, nThe
American Family of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes, rt he represents the
eighth generation of this family in America.*

The earliest memory of Mr. Holmes is of the occasion
when his father and mother took him each by a hand and led him
into the garden to show him and let him taste the first ripe
strawberries of the season. This episode was followed by numer-
ous personally directed exploits in gardens and orchards which
may be regarded as prophetic of his career as an explorer and

*For the family history see Colonel Holmes1 book, "The American
Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes/1 by Col. J. T. Holmes, Columbus,
Ohio, 1915. For details of the professional career of Mr.
Holmes see publications of the Smithsonian Institution, the two
Geological Surveys, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the U. S.
Rational Museum, the Rational Gallery of Art and the Field
Columbian Museum, 1872-1927. The list of his publications in-
cludes 217 numbers.

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collector. One of these exploits was a raid on the watermelon
patch when the melons were about the size of goose eggs* When
discovered he had nearly the whole prospective crop gathered in-
to a heap. What happened to him on that occasion is not record-
ed* The collecting habit, however, grew on him and today
various Museums are burdened with accumulations in geology, arche-
ology and art as the result of his enterprise.

His first day at school, in the little wchoolhouse in

the edge of an oah forest, is distinctly remembered. His two

older than himself

brothers/had brought home terrible stories of the whippings ad-
ministered to unruly pupils by the teacher, and when they got

him to the top of the hill where the first glimpse of the school-

house was obtained, he promptly "bucked, " refusing to go further,

but was forced along, and in his later years has no recollection

of the administration of corrective treatment by the teacher.

His art, career, indeed his entire career in the outer

world, was foreshadowed and begun while in the first and second

school readers. With his seat mate, Alexander Hammond, he took

to tracing the little illustrations in their readers with *sharo

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points and soon/had them partially cut out of the boohs. He

imagined that he excelled in this worh.

and pride of his shill

led him to other graphic ventures, which are not ended after the
lapse of three-quarters of a century. Joseph Thomas, one of
his school mates some years older, was quite artistic in his turn

and had acquired a small hox of colors,

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ed the juice of weeds for -green and berries for red and with im-
provised brushes began his career as a painter. One of the
happiest days of his boyhood was the occasion when the local
market man was induced to buy for him in Wheeling, Virginia,
twenty miles away, a box of colors and the necessary brushes. He
did not, however, understand the use of brushes and painted with

the point, much as with a pen, but soon learned better and early
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in the sixties had procured oil paints, and several examples of
his work of that period in both mediums are preserved.

His mother died when he was ten and he lived a year
with his grandparents, John and Mary Herberling , charming old
folks, in the village of Georgetown, two and one-half miles away.

The young man was probably of small account on the
farm, his two older brothers taking the heavier burdens while
he hunted squirrels and rabbits, fished, sketched and went to
school. At nineteen he was fortunate enough to be able to attend
the KeBeely Eorman School at Hopedale, seven miles away, from
which institution he graduated in 1867. In 1865 he was able
to secure a certificate to teach in the common schools, and be-
gan in this field as assistant to his cousin, Abram Holmes, in
the r'e<3' Hil1 s°Hoolhouse near Cadiz, and later taught in the
neighboring schools of Science Hill and Beech Spring.

In 1866 Holmes found the prospect of a teacher's life
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his cousin, Colonel J. I. Holmes of Columbus, he was advised to
visit Steubenville and find out whether Mr* E. F. Andrews, an
artist of repute, would he willing to give him lessons. He
found Mr. Andrews occupying an elegant mansion with a commodious
studio and a very agreeable gentleman in every way, but who was
not inclined to take pupils. It is a noteworthy fact that many
years later Mr. Andrews and he came together in Washington,
Andrews as Principal of the Corcoran School of Art, and Holmes
as ourator of the national Gallery of Art. Mr. Andrews died
in October 1917, and Holmes had the 'privilege of presenting an
address in his honor on the occasion of the dedication of a
memorial tablet to him in the Corcoran Gallery. Later it fell
to Holmes1 lot to install in the national Museum a collection of
art oo^ects left by Andrews and presented to the Museum by Mrs.
Andrews as a permanent memorial to him.

Returning home disappointed from his visit to Mr.
Andrews in Steubenville, and with the art idea pretty well dissi-
pated, Holmes resolved to try his lueE with a school of higher
graiie than that of Eopedale and spent a single term at the Will-
oughby Collegiate Institute on Euclid Avenue extended, Cleveland,
Onio, beginning March SO, 1867. It happened, curiously enough,
that his room mate here was John M. Wilson, a cousin of Woodrow

Wilson, later President of the United States. Among other class-
mates ?/ere Henry A. Clark o-f uv-io r>

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nel U. S. Vols. March 13, 1865.

Colonel J. T. Holmes, Historian of the Holmes’
Family in America, who advised me to visit Mr.
Andrews in Steubenville regarding art instruction.

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Copy of a letter from Colonel J. T. Holmes,
Columbus, Ohio, addressed to W. H. Holmes.

November 29 , 1866.

Dear Cousin:

I have not yet procured the catalogue of
any institution in which your art is taught as you wish
to pursue it. Since, as I understand it, you desire
making art a specialty, in giving you advice in the
matter I should recommend that you visit Steubenville
and obtaining an introduction, as you could easily do
through your uncle, Lieutenant Moore, to Mr. E. F. Andrews,
counsel with him as to instruction, methods of study, etc.

Mr. Andrews, I am told, has the finest
studio in the state, and as an artist stands in the first
rank. The result of such a visit might be that you would
conclude to study art with Mr. Andrews. Should you pre-
fer a school, however, he will most likely be able and
willing to commend to you the best in the state or in the
country at large. If this latter is your plan, a
letter of inquiry addressed to Mr. Andrews through
Lieutenant Moore, asking the latter to present the commu-
nication, will answer all purposes.

From what I know and have heard of Mr.
Andrews, to have him as a patron in art is an important
desideratum.

Hoping you may be successful in all of your
undertakings, I remain

Your cousin,

J. T. HOLMES
(Colonel, U.S.A.)

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in Steubenville, but he did not care
to give lessons. This copy of the
Colonel’s letter was made to be read
as part of a brief address at the Corcoran
Gallery on the occasion of the dedication
of a memorial tablet to Mr. E. F. Andrews,
founder of the Corcoran School of Art.

May 31, 1917.

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Friend Simmons:

Accident prevented me from answering your
letter immediately* I suppose to stay here all
summer except perhaps for 4 or 6 weeks during the
hottest term. Your friend (W.H.H.) therefore
may come. My ladies1 classes are growing, the
gentlemen classes declining and in the whole, things
look quite promising. I had already the idea to
advertise a course of painting for teachers during
vacation times. Your letter has renewed the idea
and I shall, perhaps, do so.

Saturday, week ago, I held my lecture on
'? American art at Kings,with, or it seems, great success.
At least the. papers said that it hadx been the most
interesting entertainment during last season.

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If your friend is coming to Washington express-
ly for the study of painting, then the regular classes
will, I suppose, not be enough for him.

I made the acquaintance of Judge Kelly of Phila
delphia and he has become quite interested and active.

I am Truly

> THEODORE KAUFMAM

(This letter led me to visit Washington)
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member of Congress from that district for the years 1916, 1917
and 1918.

While at school at Willoughby Holmes visited the studio
of Miss Caroline Ran some , the artist, in Cleveland, but failed
again to find the way open to an art career. Later he returned
to Hopedale and graduated at the Normal School there in 1870.

Hot being satisfied with his acquirements as a teacher, he . con-
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school of high grade, the State Normal School, Salem, Massachusetts,
and his father advanced $200.00 to enable him to carry out this
plan. But here good fortune came to his rescue and the course
of his life was wholly changed and his art tendencies, never
wholly lost sight of, came anew to the surface. He happened one
day to be in Neri Hanna's booh store in Cadiz, Ohio, and while
talking with Mr. Hanna of his plans, was introduced to Mr. John
bimmons, a native of Cadiz who had just returned from Washington,
where he occupied a clerkship in the War Department. On hearing
of Holmes1 disappointment at having to give up art, he advised
him strongly to abandon the Salem plan and go to Washington in-
stead arid study painting under Theodore Kauffman, a painter of
much local repute. Mr. Simmons wrote to Mr. Kauffman, making
inquiries, and the reply was so encouraging that Holmes decided
to stop in Washington and make inquiries. Kauffman's studio
was found on Twelfth Street, just below F, and it was not long
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the scrap heap. It happened that in this class, as a fellow
pupil was Miss Mary Henry, daughter of Professor Joseph Henry,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Through acquaintance
with Miss Henry, Holmes learned of the Institution where he soon
found plentiful subjects for his ever ready pencil. This ac-
quaintance with the Institution put him in direct touch with the
realm of science. On the occasion of this first visit, April
1871, he stopped just within the front door to sketch a bright
colored bird exhibited in one of the showcases. While at this
work he was observed by the young naturalist, Hr. Jos$ Zeledon
of Costa Rica, who happened to be passing, and was asked if he
had a fancy for birds, and replying in the aff innative , he was
invited to go upstairs and see a wonderful work on humming birds
by Gould. There he was introduced to a number of scientists and

when it was learned that he could draw, he was asked to try his

hand on drawing fossil shells for the Institution* s authority
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he was employed also in drawing shells of living species for
Hr. W. H. Hall, the eminent naturalist. Having succeeded in
satisfying these critical professors, he was soon regularly en- '
gaged on this work, but the even current of his artistic progress
nad one unexpected check. Professor ib=§. Baird, Assistant
Secretary of the Smithsonian, a naturalist of repute, ashed

iiim to draw an illustration for the title page . of a forthcoming
worn on Dirds, and he soon carried to the professor a nicely

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This sketch was made in 1871 looking West from the
Seventh Street bridge over the' abandoned Chesapeake and
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on the right. The foot bridge rested at the left on
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Baird glanced at the drawing with a kindly but questioning look
and hesitatingly inquired, irAnd what is the species of the bird?TT
This ended the episode which, by the way, was the artist fs first
real lesson in the realm of science.

In the spring of 1872 Holmes was appointed artist to
the U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories under Dr. F. ¥.
Hayden, to succeed Henry W, Elliott who had resigned the position
to 30 In the Polaris Expedition under the direction of Dr. Emil
Bessels. The summer of 1872 was spent with the Survey of the
Yellowstone country, now the Yellowstone national Park, reached
from Ogden, Utah, by pae-k-- train, where ample opportunity was
afforded to prove his ability with the pencil and incidentally as

a mountaineer and graphic recorder of geological phenomena; and
the following winter was spent in Washington preparing maps and
illustrations for the reports of the Survey and in the study of

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The survey of Colorado followed in 1873 with Denver
as a basis of operations. Holmes climbed many of the principal
peaks of the front ranges and was the first person known to
reach the summit of the then mysterious mountain of the Holy Cross
(See detailed account of this ascent herewith) In 1874, continu-
ing under the same auspices, he had made such progress In field
geology that he was appointed Assistant Geologist on the Survey
and assisted the Director in the study of the great mountain

ranges of central Colorado. In 1875 he was given charge of the
party assigned to the Survey of the San Juan Valley in hew Mexico
and Arizona* It happened that this region was the home of the
ancient Cliff-dwellers and he examined and reported on the remark
able ruins encountered at nearly every turn, thus making his
entr^se into the fascinating realm of archeology. At this
period the region was infested by bands of thieving Indians and
on one occasion the party1 s entire herd of animals was driven off
at midnight, but fortunately by the prompt pursuit of the head
packer, Thomas Cooper, all were recaptured before morning. (See
detailed account of the episode herewith. )

The winter months of 1875-76 were spent in Washington,
preparing reports of the previous field season on the geology
and- archeology of the Cliff House Region of Southern Colorado,
and the spring months in preparing extensive exhibits for the
Museum to be shown at the Philadelphia Centennial. The summer
was spent in a remarkable tripaclth A. D. Wilson on the primary
tri angulat i on o^ the great mountain systemsof Colorado. During
tne season eleven peaks, 14,000 feet in height or approaching
that height were climbed, among these are Longs, Pikes, G-rays ,
Culebra, Torrey, Evans, Sopris, Lincoln, Grizzly, White Rock,
Powell, Italian, Blanca, Herperus and the quartzites. Holmes
was the first to reach the summit in every case.

The survey of the Colorado region continued through
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In 1878 the Survey sent a second expedition into the
Yellowstone region, set aside in 1872 as a national Park. The
park was reached by pack train from Cheyenne, Wyoming, the region
traversed being of great interest. On the way a stop of one
day was made in Wyoming to permit observation of the total eclipse
of the sun and drawings in color were made of the corona. Several
months were spent in the Park and Holmes1 report is included in

the Annual Report of the Survey for 1878. The report describes

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inconsiderable detail with numerous illustrations of the exceed-
ingly interesting geological features of the Park, including the
fossil forests and the glacial phenomena of the region. He re-
ported also on the occurrence of Indian implements made of obsidian,
or volcanic glass, which material abounds in the Park. Hue to
the important part taken by him in the explorations of the year,
he was later honored by Director Hayden of the Survey,' by having

his name attached to one of the prominent mountain peaks in the
Park .

A year, July 1879 - July 1880, was spent in Fur ope.

The winter months were devoted to art studies in Munich where he
was associated with the American art colony, of which Frank Duveneck
of Cincinnati was the outstanding personality, and this ?/as supple-

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mented in the spring by sketching trips to Rome, Venice, Ha pies
and other Italian cities, and studies in the great Museums and
Call er i es .

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discontinued by Congress December 30, 1879, and was succeeded by
the reorganized survey, the U. S. Geological Survey, under Clarenc
King. On Holmes* return from Europe, June 30, 1880, he was
assigned to duty on this new Survey and was at once directed to
join Major Clarence E. Dutton, Geologist, on the Survey of the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado. His principal work for the season
was the drawing of panoramic views of the canyon, the most import-
ant being that from Point Sublime. The following winter season
was devoted to drawing these panoramas in pen line and in color
for reproduction in the atlas of Colorado, and in the preparation
of the Geological maps for this great volume. In December he
was assigned by the Secretary of the Interior to the task of clos-
ing up the affairs of the old Survey, #10,000 being available for
this purpose, retaining position, however, on the reorganized
Geological Survey.

The years 1882-3-4 and 5 were devoted largely to Museum
work and the study of primitive art in its various branches. The
activities of .the period were varied greatly by the preparation
and installation of exhibits of the Survey and Museum for exposi-
tions at Hew Orleans, Louisville and Cincinnati* During these
and many preceding and succeeding years Holmes v/as much concerned
in the illustration work of the Geological Survey and the Smith-
sonian Institution, with drawing, engraving and publishing, and
with the preparation of ethnological and geological maps.

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this important field he had for many years the able assistance of
Mr. DeLancy W, Gill who is still, in 19S7, the leading illustrator
of the Smithsonian and its departments. A related work was the
preparation of the exhibits of the Institution for the numerous

expositions, American and foreign.

In April 1884 the monotony of home-staying was broken
by a trip to Mexico on which Holmes was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Chain, professional photographers who had the use of a special
car provided with a studio and comfortable living accommodations.
Mr. W. H. Jackson, photographer, joined the party at El Paso,
Texas. It wras a delightful excursion of two months with visits
to Mexico City, Puebla, Zacetecas, Chihuahua, Oaxaco, Cholula and
other places of note giving the opportunity of studying peoples,

museums, ancient ruins and a number of the great volcanic mountains.

Early in August 1886 he had the good fortune to be asked
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Aof the Indian tribes and ancient ruins in He?/ Mexico and Arizona.

In the party were Professor S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smith-
sonian Institution, Major J. 'll. Powell, Director of the Geological
Survey, James Stevenson, Assistant to Dr. Hayden, and Mrs. Steven-
son, and others interested in the Puehlo region. A permanent
camp was established in the San Diego valley, a tributary of the

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tion of the ancient ruins which are very numerous in the region.
An excursion of very especial interest was the ascent of Jemez
Mountain in company with. Major Powell and others. The ascent
was easy enough hut the descent proved to him a disaster. It
happened that his pony, which had an easy gait on ordinary roads
and trails, had stiff fore legs and on the long tedious descent
of the trailless mountain slopes he came down at each step with
a terrible- jolt which so affected the rider rs spine that on reach-
ing camp he found himself quite helpless so that he had to he
carried on a litter to the distant railroad station where he was
placed on the first homeward hound train. He recovered in a few
weeks hut has always found it necessary to avoid any severe strain
affecting the spine.

The five year period, 1889-94, was one of the most
important periods of his labors in the field of science, and one
of the most important in the history cf American archeological
research. At the beginning of this period the theory of a paleo-
lithic (early stonej man in America, corresponding closely in
grade of culture with the paleolithic period in Europe, had been
accepted without question by American students. Collectors in
various sections of the country had amassed evidence that appeared
to them conclusive, and Museum cases were filled with rudely
chipped stones labelled "American Paleolithic Implements.” Be-
cause they were rude in shape and resembled the so-called paleo-
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ceding the American Indian. By a study of these collections
Holmes soon 'became convinced that a serious mistake was Being

made. Hone of the so called implements showed evidence of

specialization of form adapting them to a particular use, or of

any wear by use. During these five years a vigorous, and to

some extent a bitter controversy was carried on between him and

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close of the period no implement or chipped stone of any kind
was to be found in an American Museum of repute labelled "pale-
olithic.” All were shown to be merely the failures of shop and
quarry sites where the Indians had, with the aid of stone
hammers-, roughed out blades to be finished afterwards as knives,
scrappers, spear heads and the like. Experiment on Holmes part
made it clear that with the mat eri unavailable there were twenty
or more failures to a single success and these failures were re-

jected and cast into the refuse heap.

In 1895 Holmes took a prominent part in the installa-
tion of the exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the '%-iold

Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and in 1894 resigned from the
Bureau of Ethnology to accept the Head Curatorship of .Anthropology

in the Field Columbian Museum,

Chicago, having already been appoint

ed non resident Professor ox Anthropic Geology, under Professor
I* C. Chamberlain, in the University of Chicago. At a farewell
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silver loving cup on which the following inscription is engraved:

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Presented to William Henry Holmes hy his
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and the United States Geological Survey
as a token of their esteenv

During the winter of 1894-95 an event of exceptional
importance in Holmes1 career occurred. This was an exploring
expedition to ducat an with Mr. Allison V*. Armour of Chicago in
his good yacht I tuna. The chief result of this trip was the
publication hy the Pield Museum of a volume of 538 pages on the
ancient ruins of Yucatan and Central America with numerous Illus-
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In 1897 he returned to Washington to become Head Curator
of the Department of Anthropology in the national Museum, this
department including besides ethnology and archeology, the collec-
tions of technology , history and art. In 1900 he spent the
montns of Peoruary ano. march with Major Powell studying the anti-
quities of the Island of Cuba, and later joined Secretary S. P.
Langley in Jamaica assisting in the study of the flight of the

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of flight and their possible application to the development of the
flying machine, later a third visit was made to Mexico during
which interesting studies, scientific and artistic, were made.

On the death of Major Powell in 1902, Holmes became
Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, retaining, however, the
honorary position of Head Curator in the national Museum. It
should be explained here that the national Museum and the Bureau
of American Ethnology are co-ordinate bureaus under the Smithsonian
Institution. A noteworthy feature of this period was the publi-
cation under his immediate direction, and to the contents of which
he was a leading contributor, of the two volume "Handbook of the
American Indians," edited by Mr. F. W. Hodge. In 1909, being
deeply interested in Museum work, he retired from the Bureau of
Ethnology to devote his entire time to that work and to archeologi-
cal researches, conducting investigations in many fields. Perhaps
his most important achievements of this period were the classifica-
tion and installation in the national Museum, second floor, of the
great collections of American Archeology, and in 1903 the estab-
lishment of the Division of Physical Anthropology in the national
Museum with Dr. — les Hrdlicka, the noted physical an thro polo gist ,
as Curator. i'he latter achievement was the direct result of his
accidental observation of the fact that in the Army Medical Museum,
adjoining the national Museum on the Mall, there was a collection
of 2200 human skulls assembled for

research purposes, but which,

due to changes in the personnel of the Museum, were not being
utilized as intended* Holmes succeeded in having the collection
transferred to the Hat ional Museum1 s department of anthropology,
which was under his charge, and with the result, due to the tire-
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the collection has "been increased to ajo, 000 crania, beside a great
body of related materials. A noteworthy feature of this and
previous periods was the installation in the Museum of life-size
groups in plaster of paris of Indians engaged in their various in-
teresting activities. These were designed by Holmes and modelled
in clay by II. S. J. Dunbar, the sculptor. ; V^L.EL -.1 ^ I

In more recent years, 1906-1920, the art collections
increased with gratifying rapidity. The valuation of a few
thousand dollars when Holmes took charge, had by gift and bequest
increased in 1920 to an estimated value of ten millions. The
rapid growth was largely due to the fact that the new Museum build-
ing, completed in 1910, afforded attractive, though unfortunately
limited, wall spaces for the display of art works.

In 1920 another important change took place in HolmesT
activities and responsibilities. The art collections of the In-
stitution having grown., in importance as thus noted, the Gallery
was divorced from the Museum and he was named Director a position
which he still holds at the beginning of 1928, fifty-seven years
after his first visit to the Smithsonian Institution. f

Strangely enough Holmes has, among various honors, the

unique distinction of having two important mountains named after
nim, one In the lellowstone national Park, so named by the Director
of the Survey of the Territories in recognition of his geological

researches in the Yellowstone country (1878) not known "by him at
the time, and one named by Professor G-, K. G-ilbert, U. S. G-eologist
in the Henry Mountains of Utah (1877) not known by him until
several years later. Phis latter honor is explained as follows:
during Holmes geological explorations in the Colorado Valley, he
had teen the first to describe a peculiar type of mountain-build-
ing, since frequently observed. It happened that in the long
past there had been much volcanic activity in the region and great
bodies of lava were formed and pressed upward, sometimes reaching
the surface, though often not doing so, but instead spreading out
beneath the surface where softer deposits were encountered, lift-
ing the superior harder strata up in dome-like elevations of great
extent. As surface erosion long afterward penetrated the^ domed

were in part exposed revealing the secrets

of their structure.

In 1898 fee was awarded the loubat Prize of $1,000 by
tne Columbia University of Hew York for the most important work
in the field of American archeology for the five-year period end-
ing with 1898; and a second prize of $400 for the most important

publication in this field for the five-year period ending with
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within the fields of both science and art, it may be stated that
he is a member of the national Academy of Sciences and a score
or more oi other scientific, art and literary organizations. He
has represented the Smithsonian Institution at numerous scientific

conferences and expositions at home and abroad. He was a found-

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er of the Cosmos Club and later its President. In '1894 he was
honored by the degree of Doctor of Science by George Washington
University.

On his seventieth birthday his associates in the several
fields of activity in which he has engaged celebrated the occasion
by preparing and presenting to him at a banquet in his honor, a
profusely illustrated volume of essays of 500 pages, prepared for
the occasion by the participants in the banquet, and entitled
rr,The Holmes Memorial' Volume,11 copies of which may be found in the
principal libraries.

Holmes eightieth birthday, December 1, 1926, was made
especially notable by the presentation to him of a handsomely
bound volume of letters written by one hundred and sixty of his
friends and associates. This booh is a very precious memorial
and is preserved in the library of the national Gallery of Art.

Between his arrival at the Smithsonian Institution in
1871 and the date of this writing, January 1929, he has led an
active and most varied and interesting life devoted to science
and art. A much broken story of these fifty-eight years is
told in a multitude of publications of the period, official and

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OUTLINE BIOGRAPHY PREPARED FOR WHO'S WHO I IT AMERICA
WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES, artist, geologist, archeologist; b.

Harrison County, Ohio, Dec. 1, 1846; s. of Joseph and. Mary
(Heberling) Holmes; m. Kate Clifton Osgood, 1883; two sons,
Osgood and William Heherling. Educated, McHeely Normal
College, Ohio, 1868; Willoughby Collegiate Institute, Ohio,
1870. Degrees: A.B., 1884, KcNeely Normal College; D.Sc.,
Geo. Washington Untv. , Washington, D. C., 1918. Normal
college instructor in drawing, geography, natural history,
1871;1871; artist, Smithsonian Institution, 1871. Artist
Hayden Survey of the Territories, Yellowstone trip 1872;
assistant geologist on same, Colorado, 1874-76; Geological
Survey of Yellowstone Parle 1878; in Europe 1879-80; assistant

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geologist, U. 3. Geological Survey, 1880-89 '^archeologist
Bureau of American Ethnology 1889-94; non-resident professor
of areheologic geology, University of Chicago, 1893-97;
curator, Department of Anthropology , Field Columbian Museum,

Chicago, 1894-97;

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acceptance Chicago Museum appointment, 1894; explorations
in Yucatan, 1895; head curator, Department of Anthropology ,

U. S. National Museum (ethnology, archeology, technology,
history, art) 1897-1902; chief Bureau of American Ethnology,
1902-1910; head curator, Department of Anthropology in-
cluding national Gallery of Art 1909-20; director, national
Gallery of Art 1920-30. Banquet, Seventieth Anniversary
with hook of especially written essays by 20 associates, 500
pages, 1916. Archeological explorations in thirty states
and territories, and in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru,
1873-1920. Loubat prize for best work in archeology $1000,
1898,Loubat prize for best work in archeology $400, 1923.

Participation in sixteen expositions, 1876-1926. On Geological

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Survey- of Colorado, climbed all principal peaks, 1874-1878.

First person known to have reached summit of Mountain of Holy
Cross, 1873. Two i mountains named after: one in Henry Mountain
Utah, 1877, and one in Yellowstone Park, 1878. Organized

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Division of Physical Anthropology in national Museum, 190;

Member, national Academy of Sciences; member, Hew York Academy

of Sciences; member, National Research Council; member,

American Philosophical Society; president, Washington Academy

of Sciences; president, American Anthropological Association;
honorary member , Davenport Academy of Science, 1904; correspond-

ing member, American Institute of Architects; life member,

National Geographic Society, 1912; member, International Ameri-

can Archaeological Commission, 1904; delegate, Pan-American

Scientific Congress, Chile, 190S-09; acting president, Nineteenth
International Congress of Americanists; chairman, Managing
Committee, School of American Archeology; member, Advisory
Committee on Archeology of Carnegie Institution 1920-28;
chairman, Section of Anthropology , Second Pan-American Congress;
U. S. Commissioner on International Commission of Archeology
and Anthropology of American Republics, 1902; delegate, National

Geographic Society to Congress of Americanists, Stuttgart, 1904;

member, American Museums Association; member, American Folklore

Society; member, National Research Council; founder, Cosmos
Glut, 1884, president, 1907; honorary member, French Alpine
Club, 1926; member, Anthropological Society of Berlin, 1903;
corresponding member, Academy of natural Sciences, Bolivia,

1916; honorary fellow, Archaeological Institute of G-reat Britain
and Ireland,. 18S7 ; corresponding member, National Academy of
History, Colombia, S. A.; corresponding member, Anthropologic
and Geographic Society, Stockholm, 1903 ;' honorary member,
National University, La Plata, Argentina Republic, S. A. 1907.
President, Washington Water Color Club, 1920-1928; President,
Society of Washington Artists; president, National Society
of Fine Arts, 1909; honorary member, Washington Arts Club;
member, American Federation of Arts; art editor, !TArt and
Archaeology , !T Washington, D. C.; life member, Literary Society
of Washington ; curator, National Gallery of Art, 1910-1920;
director, National Gallery of Art, 1920-1930. Upwards of 200

scientific publications, 1874-1920.

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tew of his desire for m art saratr* . fhl» friend potwaatoft
him to #ir© up to# idea of toathing at a lift worlc ant Join him
in a dam of painting under flitotort Kauffman in fashir^toiu
Ms aftwitt mm baton ant nearer ragrtttai sin## it opanai the
way to a most intortatlt# tartar of mmmtw slaty jpssm#

la feufftian1© ©lass an pupils wore the two daughters of
froftttor toaapfe Store tagy of tot Smiths onlam Institution,

•Si tool* aafctelteMM i«a to a irlait to too Xiurtltatiam hr young
laltsaa# % mm aMlimt to mm iatoodatti to tow of vm
mmMm% Wwmtmmum* It happened that tot of bfiamt# pattern*

F* B« ami 1* K« MIX, war# la mod of an artist to sale#
imwimgm &f t to atolXm tfcay aiw studying ant toon they found

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la 1878 h® was given ehorgs of the Division of the Survey assign-
®4 te the eacploratioa of the sea Juan region in Southwest Colorado
Bae to Ills sueoses in solving certain geological problem of that
region professor 0. K. Silfcsrt, geologist of the Powell Survey,

then at »i* in Utah, naaeft one of the Peeke of the Henry gang®,

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*U0aat Holm®*" and ®ne of the sukerd lasts somite "The lesser
Solas®.*’

In earryisa* on the survey work, ant espse tally the pri-
mary trianipilatiBB of the State, soores of the greater samite
w®r® ascended, m arduous hut fsseineting work. On® saasit,
>»ww, h«4 a part Ionian interest of its ns - the loon tain of

th® Holy Orem. Xeeklng to the Seat froe ©ray’s Smk, a

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graait# faa# a ip*##! $##M #£ a&aw* lata# Hit® acmstsiit was
nmhm mm ®$:%m •*#•««& iagrii arduous Mr el «ttt ©lielimg th*
M®«ut ma ©ass pi# ted a&& I Is# s|4«dld | ihote^r&p&e m«4e % th©

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m a hmtng hmm ftmt ft rm&k %hn mmmi % I m tklm ;

and im. mm$ oftiogr ®mm% mMhi terim$ % tm Colorado work* ■

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Ms tW<i« of tlit llmut Om^&m h®& mg of roty ttpatitl ittttrttt* ];
It mm 4«to:mlme& tm% gromi flow* of lmmf proh&ttty la #m<*lml tlmooj
IM filled tt&o «r@w gorgm ®f the riror, ^hi eh m«21? flowed to
the lorth* twain# it out of it» tmmt to the South#

the glottal toe sweeping iwm from the Berth hag oomtierod grimito
rnaaaea, twin4 froa the northern highlands ever the glatesaa to
the South* eosplefing the story, nils interpretation was
verified fifty years later {1928} hy the researches of J?m£emer
R* K« Chief of the Depsrtwer.it of SoaXegjr, .’r tnaetoo tSBlver-

' stty* «al vrofessor e. 9* Jones* Head of' the Sepsrteeiit of Oeolegy,
University of H&neheater* S«#aa&, who agent the mmar la the
. &rma& Umfm mg ion*

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■ gmltgWM mtlMtlm Wm^it Mm imU mmtmt with tfeo
tug rnrHoologiool rmminm of Colorado#. tfoAii* mm s»t.® of
th# cliff temllimgs ant the mtmotimiift art mmmim* md later
mmmmmM&m wmmmmm mm o**M*4 ewer mhot of tfc* wtatom Ml
tofviiorioa wton&ing firm tfc# lUssll# to V* JMtft** from Xw
iwtmmf m tkm SMI ft CmXttwMi I « Hi font* ttm retort ft
Ho Field Colw&imm Wmm'm m Mi atoydlM is mmnmtUm with tho
.4# f# e&to&iilom im lift. throw swsJi mow light £$$& Ml

mmmM II# MMtai of the ny* period %m tmmtm*.

and % Imtm trip fp Qoatessala v&tfe fee* Sylveaue a* Morley ex-
tended the meg* of l&hirei, rsseerehes* ntug Ms

are&eolegleel igieegt iga !; ions ware the an© lysis of the se~ee21©&
©flteae# of a p&leelithie man ast ©ulture in Ml#« fh©
mMl$ #iipp^d stones found widely distributed e?i? the Kasteim
states were ■ Itiag e Mies ted % the Museum and hmmim of their
»i© oi*s#ea were regarded aa tho impl meats of a remote iwM,
trnt Spinet1 esfceustire studies of the anal eat bowlder quarries
of ytaswy Sraneu, a tributary of tmk Crm®k$ now within tfe# limit®
of Mehl&gtoii 3 tty, preved mmlmlwml*? that Ml iiaae rudely
frsstt&ed ete&es war© nothing more than toe failures, tne refuse
of the «t©n Ilads-fealdw^ of the historic &I©rig$aees« im©a&
the htm&re&s ti teas of the©# ©hipped stone* ©eirertog the Muff’ ■ j
slaps© ©f the little valley, a© Magi© iaj4eri©at ©are the rude
ha«er^st©a©a etapleyed in the ship*! a 3 v.^r# have dsea found*, ill
of the mmmmtmSL form, douitlees mittly tail© tla&ee «l pro-
Jtetll# points, wer© owried away for ms© in the satire mtiriMm
In lift frefeeeer Seine* me awarded the Bus 4© Lesfceflk
Brim© ef ^3MM0 for the asst Importent **©-rifc la arekeologiee!! re-
eeareh for Mi© five year parted liii«liii# Me to his etaeeeae*
ful worn ta geelcgy Shi mm%m%^9 m mm appelated la lata,
lately thro**# the imlumnm of tto ttetlagaleheA geologist
^rofeeeey 0* f* Ct»ih«lalaf to the a0x*»resl&en& Meffeaesrehiy
** aativ*yle geele» la the iMverstty ef Cfc&eag*t eat is SftM

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I.» ' if 08 lie waa - appelated Chief of the Bureau of taerloaa
fithaslegy to the Smithsonian Institution, whloh position he held
mill ISOf, when he was transfer*! to the staff of the latisnal
Maseaa as Head dura tor of the Bepurtnent of Anthropology. Shi®
PWltlea b* held until 1§2©, yro essor Seine* was particularly
prsud Of his aueaeas la organialBg ths Division of rhyslosO. An-
thropology ia the Museum ia 1910, and of seeuri mg the appointment
af Sr. Aloe Bxftliekn as its Curator. In the list at things
of teportenee aesoapllsiied during the period of 1910-20 was the
reelaaalfioation of the ©peat body of ftreheelegXesl oollaotloue
heretofore erowded into the 014 Building,, end, their installation®
iu the Sew Sntural History building, splendid group of ease*
for their reeeptien being built under lire fee*© r Holmes1 direction.
Xa expeeit ion worh and as a Bomber of various international
rn ieatiflo GOBgreeeea he m® eel let up# to visit several foreign
oouatrls* isolating .Sagland, fytute*, fiterwany, Jiexiso, Chill m&
fera, thus extending hie field of eeientifle eetivltlee.

Insisted la the Begortment of Anthropology of shieh
Jfrofessor Holmes tools eis&rge ia 1909, war# the severe! Mvisiene
of athnelogy, American drehe elegy, Old World Areheology, Teehnelegy

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tin# lurgelr to his soisatifie activities#

3uwi¥'lag iw rmmit iolses* of his iismthiate family ©re
Osgood Holmes, •*$!«$*& it* t&e Itelolpal frshi test's Off tee,
fdshiiigtoti.* and fillies Eeteerli?^ liaises, sin is la fcusiaees isi
Detroit, UlAt0mf residing la Sey&l o»lt# l.lm^lgm wi th him wife
end three dsug&ters#

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SECTION II POSITIONS HELD, PUBLIC AND

PRIVATE, AND APPOINTMENTS.
TRIPS ABROAD

W. H. HOLMES*

APPOIKTMSKTS IN THE U. S. GOVERNMENT SERVICE

1872 - 1950 -l,

ALL THAT HAVE BEEN PRESERVED.

1. Appointed artist .on the U. S. Geological and Geographical

, Survey of the Territories, by the Secretary of the In-
A \ terior, May 1, 1872; salary, $1800; F. V. Hayden, U. S.
Geologist in Charge. Appointment papers not supplied.
Extended to June 50, 1874.

2. Appointed Assistant Geologist on the TJ. S. Geological and

Geographical Survey of the Territories, by the Secretary
of the Interior, Carl Sehurz, dated May 1, 1874; salary,
$2400. Extended to December 14, 1879.

5. Reguested by Dr. F. V. Hayden, former Director of the Sur-
vey of the Territories, in a letter dated December 1,

1880, to take charge of the office of the Survey of the
Territories, to replace Dr. Elliott Coues; $10,000 avail-
able. (See letter herewith)

4. Appointed by Secretary of the Interior Carl Sehurz to

succeed Dr. Elliott Coues, in charge of the unfinished
business of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey
of the Territories, dated December 15, 1880. Ho salary
mentioned; no date set for taking charge, the fact being
that I had already taken charge on my return from Europe.
Appointment later, dated back to 1880.

5. Appointed by Director Clarence King a temporary Assistant

Geologist on the U. S. Geological Survey, January 1, 1881,
at a monthly compensation of $200, to take effect August
1, 1880, the date of my return from Europe. Continued to
March 1, 1881.

6. Appointed Assistant Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey, by

Secretary of the Interior Carl Sehurz, March 7, 1881, to
take effect March 1, 1881; salary $2400. Continued to
July 1, 1885.

7. Appointed Geologist on U. S. Geological Survey by Secretary

of the Interior H. M. Teller, dated June 50, 1883, to
take effect July 1, 1883; salary $2400. Continued to
August 10, 1888.

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8. Appointed Assistant Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey, by

Secretary of the Interior Vilas, dated August 14, 1888,
temporary force, to take effect August 10, 1888; salary
$2400. Continued to June 30, 1889. Resigned June 30,
1889, for transfer to the Bureau of Ethnology. Duties
continued the same.

9. Appointed Archeologist on the Bureau of American Ethnology,

hy Secretary S. P. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution,
June 30, 1889. No papers furnished. Continued to June
14, 1894.

10. Appointed Head Curator, Department of Anthropology , U. S.

national Museum, by S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smith-
sonian Institution, June 17, 1897 (acceptance June 22),
to take effect July 1, 1897; salary, $3500; continued to
October 11, 1902.

11. Appointed Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology by

S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
(to succeed Major Powell, who died September 26, 1902),
October 11, 1902, to take effect October 15, 1902; salary
$3500. Continued to December 30, 1909.

12. Appointed Head Curator of the Department of Anthropology,

U. S. Rational Museum, by C. D. Walcott, Secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, December 30, 1909, to take
effect January 1, 1910; salary $3500. Continued to
August 10, 1920.

13. Appointed Curator of National Gallery of Art, by C. D.

Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, August
10, 1906. Continued to June 30, 1920.

14. Appointed Director of the National Gallery of Art, by C. D.

Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, July
1, 1920; salary $5200. Continued to 1930

15. Appointed non resident Professor of Anthropic Geology in

the University of Chicago, 1892.

16. Appointed Curator of the Department of Anthropology, Field

Columbian Museum, 1894.

NON OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS

THE POSSIBLE QUESTION OF ANNUITY. UNSOLICITED OFFICIAL STATEMENT

NOTE: The .Geological Survey was not organized until

the Spring of 1879 under the Act of March 5, 1879
(20 Stat. L. 934), the first Director being Clarence
King, appointed April 14, 1879. previous to that
time employees were doubtless put on duty without
formal appointment.

It is noted that Mr. Holmes claims service from
1872, and his name appears in the Official Registers
for 1875, 1877, and 1879, under "Geological and
Geographical Survey of the Territories." Should he
desire to retire and requires this service to bring
him within a certain class of annuity, the Pension
Office will have to call upon the General Accounting
Office to search the pay rolls and vouchers of
Ferdinand V. Hayden, who was Special Disbursing
Agent for the Expedition, paid from the appropriation
for the Geological and Geographical Survey of the
Territories. . He appointed his own help in part.

(Signed) J. W. Atwood, Acting Chief ,
Division of Appointment, Mails & Files

W. Atwood, Acting Chief

Countersigned Sept. 24, 1925,
W. B. Acker, Chief Clerk,
Department of the Interior

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY

Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 1090.

Mr. W.H. Holmes,

Archae ologi s t ,

Bureau of Ethnology.

Sir:-*

In carrying on the Archaeological survey of the Potomac and
neighboring -valleys you are hereby directed to make the necessary
journeys and to secure and transport such assistants as are
required for the proper conduct of the work under your charge.

Yours , with respect,

(Signed ) J . W* Powe 11 ,

Director.

A true copy,

(signed) James C. Pilling,

Chief Clerk*

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Tfasfiinptori/,

April 15,1897

Dear Sir;

It is proposed to modify somewhat the organization of the
National Museum, to take effect July 1,1897* There will be estab-
lished a Division of Anthropology , which will include all that
pertains to man and his works, except in the biotic .sense*

I write to offer you the position of Anthropologist in

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charge of the Division of Anthropology , at a salary of Three thous-
and five hundred dollars ($3,500) per annum* The duties of the
position will be to take charge of the division and look after all
details connected with it. At the present t ime , Professor O.T.Mason
is Curator oi Ethnology , Prof essor Thomas Wilson is Curator of Pre-
Historic Anthropology , Mr. J*E. Watkins is Curator of Technological
Collections , and there are several Custodians of various collections
»uch will be placed under the Division of Anthropology.

In view of the arrangements that have been made with Pro- .
lessors Mason and Wilson, and with Mr .Watkins , it is desired that

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they shall remain in charge of the special collections now under
their care, and that the two former gentlemen shall continue the
investigations upon which they are engaged* This , however, is not
to interfere with the general scheme for the arrangement of the
collections of the Museum that may be agreed upon by the Anthropol-
ogist in charge and the officer in charge of the National Museum.

If you accept the position, it is desired that you will
enter upon the discharge of its duties on July 1,1897.

Very respectfully yours,

Professor W.H.Holmes,

572o Washington Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON. D. C. April 23, 1897.

Prof. W. H. Holmes,

5726 Washington Avenue,

Chicago, 111.

Dear Mr. Holmes

Your telegram received yesterday. I saw Mr. Proctor,
President of the Civil Service Commission, last evening, and had a
long talk with him on the subject. The President’s last order
was very sweeping, and while it is possible that President McKinley
would make exceptions, it is most desirable that they should not
be asked unless it is postively necessary. Professor Proctor told
me that the Commission had agreed that the examination should be
based upon the evidence afforded by the publications and a statement
of the positions held.

The place has sought you, not you the place, but it is

desirable to conform to the law, and not ask for an exception. If

this is not done, it will be necessary for you to write to the

Commission, and I would suggest the following:

’U. S. Civil Service Commission,

Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: -

I have been asked to consider the position of Anthropolo-
gist, in charge of the Division of Anthropology in the U. S. Nation-
al Museum. Learning that the position is considered to be within
the classified service, I send herewith a statement of the positions
I have held, and a list of my publications as evidence to you of my
fitness to occupy the position which I have been requested to take.

Very respectfully, etc.”

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It will not be necessary for you to write this letter at
once. It is so near the first of May now that I think it best to
postpone giving notice until the middle of May or first of June, and
come here later in the summer. Professor Proctor will take the
matter up with the Commission today, and I will write you again

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early next week.

The Civil Service law has been a great help in many ways
and this is the first instance where we have come in contact with
it in a way that bids fair to be injurious to the scientific inter-
ests of Washington. I fully appreciate that you do not wish

to appear to be competing for the position. If you write such a
letter as I have suggested to the Commission., when the proper
time comes it will clearly indicate that such is not the case.

Truly yours,

P.S. I have just returned from an interview with the Presi-
dent of the Civil Service Commission, and he tells me that rather
than not have you come, they will ask the President to make an ex-
ception, and thus waive the Civil Service examination. On my way
back I called to see Professor Langley, and he has ..suggest ed that
we have an arrangement made by which scientific employes can be
taken into the Smithsonian Institution, and subsequently transferred

to the Museum. I will bring this up before the Commission on Mon-
day .

In consideration of the position of the Commission and
Professor L&ngley, I think you need not give yourself any concern
regarding a public competitive examination. In fact, under the
scheme outlined in the first part of my letter, no person would
know, outside of the committee appointed to pass upon the effi-
ciency as shown by the publications and positions held, that you
or any other individual had made application for examination, as
the matter is entirely confidential.

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All Correspondence
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TO THE SEORETARY,

S . P. LANGLEY,

WASHINGTON, D. C., JUHG / 1897.

Dear Sir :

Your name has been certified to me from the

Civil Service Commission as eligible to appointment
to the office of Head Curator of the Division of
Anthropology in the United States National Museum, and
I have great pleasure in informing you of your appoint-
ment to the position. I will ask that you enter upon
your duties as soon as practicable in the coming
fiscal year.

Your compensation has been fixed at the rate of
$3500 • 00 per annum, to commence as soon as you shall

as sume the ob 1 i ga t ion of office.

You will please report to Professor Charles D.

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Walcott, Acting Assistant Secretary, in charge o.f the
Mus earn .

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Doctor Wi 11 iam H . H o hue s ,

Field Columbian Museum,

Ch i c ago , Illinois.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON, D. C.

June 24, 1897

Prof. W. H. Holmes,

5726 Washington Avenue,

Chicago, 111.

My dear Holmes : -

I think you are way off on your surmises in relation to
the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. There are quite a number
of men who feel very sore, and little articles of that kind have
appeared from time to time during the past three years.

As the Museum will be very much torn up during the summer

in connection with the construction of tlie galleries in the courts

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and halls, I have arranged for a temporary office for you in the y
Smithsonian building.

Everything is going along very quietly here. Your appoirt-
ment was approved by the Secretary, and I presume ere this you
have received official notice from him. Will you not let me knovr
when we can expect you here? If you choose to give notice June

50th so as to report here October 1st, it will answer all pur-

I shall probably leave here about the first of August,
and return in October.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

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WASHINGTON, D. C.

Groton, Conn., July 2, 1897,

Prof. W. ' H. Holmes,

5726 Washington Ave.

Chicago, 111.

My dear Holmes

Yours of June 30th received. Under the circumstances I
do not know but that it would be well for you to plan to reach
Washington October 1st. I may or may not be there, but that will
make little difference , as it will take you some time to get settled
and ready for work. You can first take up the plans for rearranging
the collections in the new galleries.

I have personally no objection to your lapping over ac-
counts, as you call it. You can do this by obtaining leave for
October at Chicago.

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Department of State,

3MPER,

Treasury Department.

1. C. WARD, U. S. A.,
War Department.
STRONG,

Department of Justice.
OWNDOW,

Post Office Department.

(JUNE 1 TO OCTOBER 31)

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT,

OF THE

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT.

J. H. BRIGHAM,
Department of Agriculture,
Chairman.

W. V. COX,
National Museum,
Secretary,

W. lvr. GEDDES,
Disbursing Officer.

Hr. Com. E. M. STEDMAN, U, S. b
Navy Department.

F. W. CDARKE,

Department of the luterio

K. W. TRUE,

Smithsonian Institution an
National Museum.

W. de C. RAVENED,

Commission of Fish an
Fisheries.

Washington City, *£ atfE'EY

1S99.

Dear sir:~

It gives me pleasure to forward herewith Medal an<

Diploma awarded you for valuable services rendered to the

Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, which have
Just been received from the Exposition Management at Omaha.

Yours very Respectfully,

Secretary,

Prof. w. H. Holmes,

Dead Curator,

Department of Anthropology,
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ASTRbPH YSICAL OBSERVATORY.

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Sir:

You are hereby designated to represent the Secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution in organizing and directing
the work of the Bureau of American Ethnology , with the title
of Chief of the Bureau, to take effect on October 15th,at a
salary of Pour thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500.00}
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December 30, 1909.

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Understanding that it is your desire to be relieved
of your present duties in connection with the Bureau of
American Ethnology and to again take up Museum work, you are
hereby transferred from the position of Chief, Bureau of
American Ethnology, to that of Head Curator of the Depart-
ment of Anthropology, United States national Museum, at a
compensation of Three Thousand and Five Hundred Dollars
(§3500.00) per annum; this transfer to take effect on Janu-
ary 1, 1910.

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Chief, Bureau of American Ethnology,
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Europe - England as a side-trip on the voyage
to South America,

British Columbia, visit to the Victoria Museum*

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Annual Reports of the Survey of the Territories,
The Smithsonian Institution, The Bureau of
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DRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO

THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON, D, C.

Department of State

WASHINGTON

November 6, 1915.

Doctor William H. Holmes,

Smithsonian Institute,

Washington, D. C.

Sir:

The Department has issued a certificate of appointment
designating you as a Delegate on the part of the United
States to the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress to he
held at Washington December 27, 1915 to January 8, 1916.

The certificate is transmitted herewith.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

For the Secretary of State:

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SECTION III THE LOUBAT PRIZES FOR ARCHEOLOGICAL

RESEARCH.

W. H. HOLMES

PRIZES - MEDALS

1895-1923

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First Louhat Prize $1000 - 1895-98

See 15th Annual Report, Bureau of
American Ethnology.

Judges: D. G. Br inton, H. T. Peek
and W. J. McGee,

Second Louhat Prize $400. - 1918-23

See Bulletin 60, Bureau of American
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My researches during the years 1889-94, and in part
during preceding and succeeding years were of much interest to
students of American Archeology and of very special moment in
the story of the former Indian tribes of the Potomac Yalley.

They were reported somewhat fully in the publications of the
Bureau of American Ethnology for these years as well as in re-
ports of other branches of the Smithsonian Institution and in
the Scientific Journals of the period. The investigation in
Piney Branch Yalley, well within the city limits of Washington,
led to a correct understanding of the very extensive deposits of
chipped stone objects previously attributed, on account of their
rude shape, to a very early period and to a Paleolithic (Early
Stone) Culture. It was on account of these investigations that
I won the Loubat prize of $1,000 awarded for the most important
publication (Stone Implements of the Potomac Tidewater Province,
13th Annual Report, B.A.E., 1893-94, pages 13-152) within the
field of American Archeology during the five year period ending
in 1898, and during which I also took an important part in the
preparation of exhibits for the World fs Columbian Exposition in

Chicago. It was the latter work that led in 1884 to my appoint

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Museum in Chicago.

A second prize of $400 was awarded me for the most im-
portant work in the same field for the five year period ending
April 1, 1917. The publication is Bulletin 60, Part 1, of the
Bureau of American Ethnology.

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LOUBAT QUINQUENNIAL PRIZES FOR 1898

The Hon. Seth Low, LL.D.,

President of Columbia University.

Sir: The undersigned, a Committee appointed in 1895 to examine and
report upon the various monographs submitted in competition for the Loubat
Prizes to be awarded in 1898, beg leave to report that they have carefully con-
sidered the different works received, and have also, in accordance with the rules
governing the competition, examined such other works relating to American
Archaeology as have been published in the English language during the three
years ending with the first day of April, 1898. In their consideration of these
monographs the Committee have taken into account not only the scientific value
of the work but also the importance of the subjects treated, the methods of
investigation pursued by the authors, and the artistic and literary excellence
of the presentation.

The monographs that were formally submitted for examination were the
productions of eight different authors. Of these the Committee have selected,
as being the most meritorious and as most fully complying with the conditions
prescribed for the competition, the treatise offered by Mr. William Henry
Holmes, Curator of the Department of Anthropology in the National Museum
at Washington. The title of this treatise is, Stone Implements of the Potomac-
Chesapeake Tide-Water Provinces.

This volume may be held to mark an epoch in American archaeological
research, by interpreting the remarkably abundant artifacts of a typical region
in the light of precious studies of actual aboriginal handiwork, and thus
establishing a basis for the classification of the stone art -of the entire Western
Hemisphere. It is the result of many years of personal study, numerous
experiments, and close typological analysis, and is supplied with a wealth of
illustrative material that gives it most exceptional interest and value. The
Committee, therefore, recommend that the first prize of $1,000 be awarded to
Mr. William Henry Holmes. r

The elaborate monograph entitled, The Social Organization and Secret
Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians , by Dr. Franz Boas of the Metropolitan
Museum of Natural History of New York City, is a remarkably complete
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studied tribe in such a manner as to offer a model for students and raise the
standards of ethnological work. Its information is derived* from personal
research conducted on the very best scientific principles and dealing with a
wealth of carefully collected material. Your Committee, therefore, recommend
that the second prize of $400 be awarded to Dr. Franz Boas.

Of the remaining authors represented in the competition, the Committee
desire to single out for especial mention Dr. Karl Lumholz, who presented a
treatise entitled, Objective Symbolism of the Huichol Indians ; Mr. Frank H.
Cushing, who offered a manuscript interpretive of aboriginal art and industry
under the title, Tomahawk and Calumet , Shield and Gorget ; and Dr. Walter
Hoffmann, whose extended memoir embodies a careful study of the Menomini
Indians.

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by Alfred P. Maudslay, of London, dealing with the Archaeology of Central
America. This work was not submitted by its author in the competition, and
it has not yet been completed in publication ; but its great merit is such as to
demand some especial mention on the part of this Committee.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

Committee : H. T. Peck, Chairman ,

D. G. Brinton,

W. J. McGee.

May 21st, 1898.

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L0UBAT QUIIQUEBNIAL PRIZES FOR 1898

The Hon# Seth Low, 1L#D* ,

President of Columbia University.

Sirs

The undersigned, a Committee appointed in 1895 to examine
and report upon the various monographs submitted in competition
for the Loubut Prizes to be, awarded in 1898, beg leave to report
that they have carefully considered the different works received,
and have "also, in accordance with the rules governing the competi-
tion, examined such other works relating to American Archaeology
as have been published in #&§ English language during the three
years ending with the first day of April, 1898# In their eon*
sideration of thee© monographs the Committee have taken into account
not only the scientific value of the work but also the importance
of the subjects treated, the methods of investigation pursued by
the authors, and the artistic and literary excellence of the pre-
sentation#

The monographs that were formally submitted for examina-
tion were the productions of eight different authors* Of these
the Commit tec have 'selected, as being the most meritorious and as
most fully complying with the conditions prescribed for tie compe-
tition, the treatise offered by Mr# William .Henry Holmes, Curator
of the Department of Anthropology in the Rational UuSiSa at Wash-
ington# The Title of this treatise is, nStone Implements of the
Potomac -Chesapeake Tide-Water Provinces #n

This volume may be held to mark an epoch in American
archaeological research, by interpreting the remarkably abundant
artifacts of a typical region in the light of precious studies of
actual aboriginal handiwork, and thus establishing a basis for the
classification of the stone ’art of the entire Western Hemisphere#

It is the result of many years of personal study, numerous experi-
ments, and close typological analysis, and is supplied with a"
wealth of illustrative material that gives it most exceptional
interest and value# The Committee, therefore, recommend that the
first prize of §1,000 be awarded to Mr# William Henry Holmes#

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Boas, of the American Museum of natural History of Hew York City,
is a remarkably complete descriptive and analytic treatise
setting forth the characteristics of a well -studied tribe in
such a manner as to offer a model for students and raise the
standards of ethnological work* Its information is derived
from personal research conducted on the very best scientific prin-
ciples and dealing with a wealth of carefully collected material.
Your Committee, therefore, recommend that the second prize of §400
be awarded to Br* Franz Boae*

Of the remaining authors represented in the competition,
the Gosmittee desire to single out for especial mention Br. Karl
lumholz, who presented a treatise entitled, "Objective Symbolism
of the Huiehol Indians1*! Mr* Frank H, Cushing, who offered a
manuscript interpretive of aboriginal art and Industry under the
title, "Tomahawk and Calumet, Shield and Gorget" 5 and Br« Walter
Hoffmann, whose extended memoir embodies a careful study of the
Menominl Indians*

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datlon a work by Alfred P# Maudslay, of London, dealing with the
Archaeology of Central America* This work was not submitted by
its author in the competition, and it has not yet been completed •
in publication! but its great merit is such as to demand some
especial mention on the part of this Committee*

All of which is respectfully submitted*

Committee; H. T* PECK, Chairman,

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Y OF NEW YORK

PRESIDENT’S ROOM June 27, 1898 .

jar Sir:

I have the honor to hand you herewith a copy of the report
' the Committee of Award on the Loubat Prizes for the quinquennial
jriod ending in June, 1898, from which you will perceive that the
Lrst prize has been awarded to you for your treatise entitled
Stone Implements of the Potomac -Chesapeake Tide Y/ater Provinces."

As your treatise was formally submitted to the Committee
jr examination, I presume I may take it for granted that you are
’©pared to comply with the conditions attached to the acceptance of
le prize, expressed in Regulation Ho. 7 of the Regulations governing
I© award herewith enclosed. Upon receiving from you such an assur-
ace, I shall be glad to ask the Treasurer of the University to

ransmit to you his check for $1000.

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I trust you will permit^me - to express my personal congratu-

at ions upon yourT success' in this competition. Ho effort is spared

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7 the University to make it sure that a book so crowned is worthy
f the high distinction conferred upon it.

Respectfully,

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President .

r. William Henry Holmes,

Curator of the Department of Anthropology,

national Museum,

Washington, D. c.

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President Seth Low,

Columbia University, City of New York.

Dear Sir:

I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of June twenty-
seventh announcing the result of the Loubat Competition. It affords me great
satisfaction to learn that my work of the past few years has the seal of ap-
proval from so high a source as the committee named; and it is especially
gratifying to have the award come through your great Institution and from a
patron of anthropologic science ^without a peer in the history of the country.

I shall be glad to comply with the requirements of regulation No. 7
and will forward five copies of the work as soon as they are ret urned from the
bindery.

Thanking you for your part in this matter and for your words of corn-
men dat ion,

I am,

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Hotel Grande Bretagne,

Athens, April 12, 1899.

Dear Mr . ito ckhill :

May I ash the favor of your writing to
Professor Holmes and asking him if he would he will-
ing to make a thorough exploration of Palenque, similar
to those of Schliemann at Troy in Greece.

Would you please ask him to write to me at
f 7 hue Dumont Pur vi lie, Paris, letting me know how many
winters he would require to do the work thoroughly -
what his plans would he and how much money 'he would re-
qui r e annual ly .

Should Mr. Holmes and I come to an under-
standing I would submit it for approval to Mr. Jesup,
President of the American Museum of Natural History of
the City of Hew York, and deposit each year the money re-

quired with the A. M.

of H . II . which ha s an ar r an g ern e n t

with Mexico by which it can make explorations and take
away duplicates (if found) of different objects and make
casts of the others.

Yours sincerely,

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Will you give me the pleasure of your company at
dinner either today or tomorrow at 7 l/z P.M, We
leave the ■— Friday by Italian steamer for Corfieu

and Brinidi,

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MR. HOLMES' HO HORS.

Washington Scientist Receives an Important Prize.

The award of the Le Due de Loubat prizes , founded with
Columbia College of Hew York, to be awarded once in five
years, for the most noteworthy works on American anthropology,
has been made, and the first grand prize of $1,000 was cap-
tured by Mr. William Henry Holmes of Washington, Head, curator
of anthropology at the United States National Museum, and
formerly curator of the Department of ethnology in the
Field Columbian Museum at Chicago.

Le Due de Loubat is American born, of French descent,
inheriting his title from his father. He is immensely
wealthy, and is a cosmopolitan, spending a greater portion
of his time, however, in He?/ York city. He recently gave
$1,000,000 to Columbian College in that city, aside from
founding the prises for anthropological works. The award of
these prizes is the first that has been made, and the impor-
tance of the works submitted in competition cannot be over- •

estimated. Judges are appointed for each five-year period.
The committee of judges which has just completed its services
was composed of Professor H. T. Peck of Columbia College,

Dr. Daniel G. Br inton and Professor W. J. McGee of the bureau
of ethnology in this city.

Besides carefully scanning the works received in compe-

tition, the committee also examined such other works relating
to American archaeology as have been published in the English
language during the last three years. In the consideration
of the monographs the committee took into account not only

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the scientific value of the work, but also the importance of
the subject treated, the method of investigation pursued by
the author and the artistic and literary excellence of the
presentation.

The monographs that were formally submitted were the
productions of eight; different authors. Of these the com-
mittee selected as being the most meritorious and as fully
complying with the conditions prescribed for the competi-
tion the treatise offered by Mr. William Henry Holmes of
Washington, the title of whose treatise was "Stone Implements
of the Potomac -Chesapeake Tidewater Provinces." In recommendtgg
the award of the first prise of $1,000 to Mr. Holmes, the
committee says:

"This volume may be held to mark an epoch in American
archaeological research by interpreting the remarkably
abundant artifacts of a typical region in the light of previous

studies of actual aboriginal handiwork.

and thus establishing

a basis for

classification of the stone art of the western

hemisphere. It- is the re
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supplied with a wealth, of
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suit of many years of personal study,
close typological analysis, and is
illustrative material that gives it
and value,"

$400 was awarded to Dr. Prang Boas of

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of Natural History of Hew York, the

subject of whose monograph 'was : "The

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of Washington, who offered a manuscript interpretative of
aboriginal art and industry, under the title: "Tomahawk and
Calumet, Shield and Gorget," and Dr. Walter Hoffman, whose
extended memoirs embodied a careful study of the Me no mini
Indians. The committee also especially commended the work of
Alfred P. Hands lay of London, dealing with the archaeology
of Central America, but which was not submitted or completely
published.

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COLMUBIA UNIVERSITY ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT

For the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish
services to the people, illustrated by an eminent example, excluding, as
too obvious, the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln,
$1,000.

Awarded to

The Life and Letters of Walter II. Page
By Burton J. Hendrick

[Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922]

For the best volume of verse published during the year by an Ameri-
can author, $1,000.

Awarded to

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
[New York: Frank Shay, 1922]

A Few Figs from Thistles
[New York: Frank Shay, 1922]

Eight Sonnets in
American Poetry, A Miscellany
[New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922]

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

LOUBAT PRIZES

Awarded every five years for the best original works dealing with
North America at any period preceding the Declaration of Independence.
First prize, $1,000. Second prize, $400.

First prize awarded to
The War with Mexico
By Justin Harvey Smith

[2 Volumes, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919]

Second prize awarded to
Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities
• By William Henry Holmes

[Bulletin No. 60 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian

Institution ] t

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEDAL

The Alumni Association of the School of Architecture offers an annual
medal for proficiency in advanced design.

Louis Edgar Albright, 1923, of Columbus, O.

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS MEDAL

The American Institute of Architects offers an annual medal to that
student of the School of Architecture who has during his course main-
tained the best general standard in all departments of his work.

Frederick James Woodbridge, 1923, of New York City

McKIM FELLOWSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE

Founded by Mr. Charles F. McKim, in 1891; value $ 2000 ; open for
competition every two years to graduates of the. School, of Architecture
under thirty years of age. The winner must devote at least two years
to study and travel in Europe; ten months in each year must be spent
in study in the American School of Architecture at Rome.

Perry Coke Smith, 1923, of Norfolk, Va.

COLUMBIA COLLEGE

ALUMNI PRIZE

Given annually by the Alumni Association of the College to the most
faithful and deserving student of the graduating class; value $50.

Franklin Vincent Brodil, 1923, of New York City

EDWARD SUTLIFF BRAINARD MEMORIAL PRIZE

Annual income of a fund of $1,200, gift of Miss Phoebe T. Sutliff in
memory of her nephew, Edward Sutliff Brainard, of the Class of 1921 , to
be awarded to the student in the graduating class of Columbia College
who is adjudged by his classmates as most worthy of distinction on the
ground of his qualities of mind and character.

George Medigovich, 1923, of Bisbee, Ariz.

CHANLER HISTORICAL PRIZES

Bequeathed by J.Winthrop Chanler, A.B., 1847, and supplemented by
gift so as to provide three prizes of $500, $100 and $50 respectively, for

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SECRETARY OF THE UNIVERSITY

June 21, 1923

Mr* William Henry Holmes

1454 Belmont Street

Washington, D,C.

My dear Mr* Holmes:

I take very great pleasure in enclosing here-
with the University’s check for $4C0. , representing the amount of
the Lcubat Prise awarded to you at Commencement,

Inclosed you will find a brief description of
the Loubat Prise, and under separate cover I am sending you a copy
of the Commencement Program containing the announcement of the
award*

With hearty congratulations, I am,

Very truly your© ,

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.Bear Sir:

I have pleasure in acknowledging receipt of
your letter of June 21, containing the chock for 00
on the Exchange Bank, University Branch, signed by
Chas. B * Davidson, representing the amount of the Lou-
bat Pri^e awarded me at the University Commencement*

I regret that during the very extensive changes
made in my connection hero, 'and the consequent changes
in filing, 1 have lost track of the correspondence re-
lating to the loubat Prises and am not now able to say
whether I have furnished five copies of the work ro-
quired. I am not now even certain of the title of that
work* Doubtless the Commencement Program, which lias
failed to reach me, contains the necessary data. I beg,
therefore, that at your convenience a copy of this
Program is sent mo*

Sincerely yours.

Director.

Hr* Prank D* Pachenthal ,
Secretary, Columbia University,
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My dear Sir:

My apologies are due you* The Commencement
report did arrive, and if the full copies of my paper
were forwarded as they should have been you need not
consider the utter further*

I am greatly flattered by the award, and
would be glad to have the Committee appreciate this*

Sincerely yours.

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Although the Art Editor of "Art and Archeology"
is probably best known to readers of this Journal as an
artist and as Director of the national Gallery, we are
reminded of his enviable place in the field of American
Archeology by the recent award to him by Columbia Uni-
versity of Dew York, of the De Loubat Prise for the most
important work in the field of American Archeology for
the quinquennial period ending with 19 23. This work is
the first volume of the "Handbook of Aboriginal American
Archeology" published by the Bureau of American Archeology

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"Archeology of the Tidewater Province," which embraced as
its most important feature, an elaborate study of the ex-
tensive work done by tbe Indians within the area now oc-
cupied by the City of Washington. Today the great oaks
on the elopes of Piney Branch, within gunshot of the
Fourteenth street Bridge, grow in beds of the refuse of
Indian stone implement making, several feet in depth. A
score of generations ago groups of the noble red men might
have been seen at work on this site, as is graphically
shown in one of the lay figure groups of the national
Museum.

July IE, 1923.

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dhe Second Eoubat J)rize for Ike Handbook of Aboriginal American,
Antiquities Published as a Bulletin of the Smithsonian institution

IN - ACCORDANCE WITH • THE • PROVISIONS • OF ■ THE • STATUTES • OF • THE
UNIVERSITY • GOVERNING • SUCH • AWljVRD

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SEC TICK IV HONORARY APPOINTMENTS , MEMBER

SHIPS AMD AWARDS

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Appointments to Pan American. Congresses (see envelope
devoted to these Congresses)

Honorary Fellow The Anthropological Institute of
G-reat Britain and Ireland. January 12, 1897.

Member of Committee on Medals and Badges, Dewey
Reception. August 5, 1899.

Corresponding Member American Institute of Architects.
Hovember 13, 1899.

-Member American Philosophical Society. December 15,1899.

Corresponding Member Hew York Academy • of Sciences.

March 2, 1900.

Member Anthropologic and Geographic Society of Stockholm,
Sweden. March 30, 1903.

Commissioner of the United States on the International
Commission of Ethnology and Archeology for the
American Republics. April 15, 1903.

Member Berlin Society of Anthr opology, Ethnology and
History. June 20, 1903.

Delegate of the Rational Geographic Society at the
Congress of Americanists, Stutgart, Germany. 1904.

Honorary Member, Davenport Academy of Sciences. Jan. 29, 1904.

Member of the International American Archeological Commission
Appointed by the Department of State. October 1904.

Member Rational Academy of Sciences. April 20, 1905.

Honorary Member University of La Plata, Argentina Republic.
July 19, 1907.

Corresponding Member Colombia (Bogota) Rational Academy
of History. April 1, 1916.

Doctor of Science, George Washington University. April 8,1918

Life Member, Rational Geographic Society. December 19, 1919.

Honorary Member The American Institute of Architects.

May 10, 1926.

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, MEDALS , DIPLOMAS t MEMBERSHIPS t

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS ETC., FOR A PERIOD OF FIFTY YEARS .

1* Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, Hew York, 1901.
Diploma.

’ 2. Corresponding member. Anthropological and G-eographical
Society of Stockholm, March 30, 1903.

3. Member of the Die Berliner Gesellsehaf t Mr Anthropolgie

Ethnologic und Urgeschiete, June 29, 1903.

4. Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Universal Exposition,

St, Louis, 1904. Diploma, U.S. America.

5. Lewis and Clark Centennial. American-Pacific Exposi-

tion and Oriental Fair, Portland, Oregon, 1905.
Commemorative Diploma.

' 6. Member National Academy of Sciences, April 20, 1905.
Diploma.

7. Jamestown Tri-Centennial Exposition. Hampton Roads, Ta. ,

1607-1907. Diploma and Medal.

8. Honorary Member de la Academies del National University

of La Plata, Argentina, 1907.

9. Alaska -Yukon -Pacif ic Exposition, Seattle, 1909. Diploma

10. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco,

1915. Diploma and Silver Medal.

11. U. S. Delegate, Department of State to the Second Pan

American Scientific Congress, Washington, D. C.
December 27, 1915.

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Ilistoria, Republic* de Colombia, 1916.

G-eorge Washington University. The Degree of Doctor
of Science conferred June 5, 1918, Charles H.
Stockton, President,

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1. International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876,

Awarded by United States Centennial Commission.

2. Trans-Mississippi and Int ernational Exposition, Omaha, 1898.

3. The bronze in this medal was captured by Admiral Dewey at

Manila, May 1, 1898. Washington City, Oct. 1899.

4. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States.

Tribute to the author of the Declaration of Independence, 1776-190
aWe hold these truths to be self evident that all
men are created equal • That they are endowed by
their creator with certain inalienable rights.

That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness."

5. Gommemorative Medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Universal Exposition, Saint Louis, 1904.

6. Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Commerce, Oct. 20, 1904. Peru?

7. Twentieth International Congress of Americanists, Rio de

Janeiro, 1875 Brazil 1922.

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8. Inauguration Medal, Theodore Roosevelt, inaugurated President
of the United States March 4, 1905.

9. Commemorative Medal issued by the Secretary of Public Education
of the first Centennial of the Foundation of the Rational
Museum of Archaeology, History and Ethnology, Mexico,
1825-1925

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1. Judge, Columbian Exhibition 1893. Also a rolled five

cent piece with inscription ''Columbian Exposition 1893”

2. Two souvenir badges - Admiral Dewey Reception Committee,

Washington, Octoher, 1899.

3. Commemorative of establishment of the Capital in the District

of Columbia, 1800-1900. John Adams 1800 - William
McKinley 1900. (two badges)

4. Jury of Awards, official button, Pan-American Exposition,
1901, Buffalo, 3ST. Y.

5. 36th National Encampment, G. A. R., Washington, D. C.,
October 1902, Veterans 1861-1866.

6. 13th session of the International Congress of Americanists,
Dew York, 1902. Presented by the American Museum of
H a tur al Hi s t o ry •

7. 70th anniversary of the Rock Island, 1852-1922. First

bridge Mississippi Fviver, Rock Island Lines, 70 years
of service.

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WILLIAM VAN 2ANDT COX.

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WILLIAM P. VAN WICKLE,

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JOHN W. BABSON,

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COMMITTEE

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MEDALS AND BADGES:

Mr. SIMON WOLF, Chairman.

Mr. W. V. COX, Vice-Chairman.
Mr. ED. T. BATES, Secretary.
Mr. JAS. T. PETTY, Treasurer.
Dr. GEO. N. ACKER.

Dr. CYRUS ADLER.

Mr. JACOB APPICH.

Mr. LEWIS BAAR.

Mr. R. C. BALLANTYNE.

Mr. PAUL BECKWITH.

Mr. EMILE BERLINER.

Mr. A. A. BIRNEY.

Mr. I. L. BLOUT.

Mr. EDWIN S. BRANDT.

Mr. S. C. BONE.

Mr. AUSTIN P. BROWN,

Mr. BARRY BULKLEY.

Mr. N. L. BURCHELL.

Mr. A. H. CLARK.

Prof. F. W. CLARKE.

Mr. FRANK CLAUDY.

Mr. THOS. P. CLEAVES.

Mr. H. E. DAVIS.

Dr. DAVID T. DAY.

Mr. HARRISON DINGMAN,

Dr. J. M. FLINT.

Mr. GEO. C. GORHAM.

Mr. CHAS. GRAFF.

Mr. WM. HAHN.

Mr. FINDLAY HARRIS.

Mr. R. HARRIS.

Mr. ABRAHAM HART.

Mr. ALPHONSO HART.

Prof. W. H. HOLMES.

Mr. W. W. KARR.

Mr. VICTOR KAUFFMANN.

Mr. J. NOTA McGILL.

Mr. CHAS. MADES.

Mr. ALFRED MAYER.

Mr. JOHN C. PARKER.

Mr. A. R. PRINCE.

Dr. C. B. PURVIS,

Mr. W. DE C. RAVENEL.

Mr. W. J. RHEES.

Mr. JOHN RIDOUT.

Dol. R. G. RUTHERFORD.

Mr. G. W. SIMPSON.

Mr. MILFORD SPOHN.

Mr. T. M. SULLIVAN.

Dr. L. B. SWORMSTEDT.

Mr. S. W. TULLOCH.

Mr. A, H. VAN DEUSEN.

Mr. J. L. WILLIGE.

Dear Sir:-

The Executive Committee of the Admiral Dewey
Reception Committee takes pleasure in announcing that the -
recommendation of its Committee on Medals has been approved,
and that a Commemorative Medal of great beauty and historic
interest will be struck from metal obtained from a bronze
torpedo captured by Admiral Dewey in the battle of Manila
Bay, May 1, 1898.

As the quantity of metal available is limited,
only a comparatively small number of medals can be fur-
nished, and therefore all members of the Committee are
asked to send immediately to Hon. Simon Wolf, Chairman of thj
Committee on Medals and Badges, a request for a medal.

The request should be accompanied by a check for
one dollar, the price fixed by the Committee to cover the
cost of production.

Members of committees desiring more than one
medal will please state in their request the additional
number desired and enclose a check for the proper amount
of money for the same, as after supplying single medals
to each committeeman any surplus will be disposed of to
the first applicants.

The right is reserved to limit the number of
medals to be furnished any one person. All orders must
be in the hands of Chairman Wolf on or before September
10, 1899.

Yours very respectfully,

Secretary

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appointment as a member of the Committee on
Medals and Badges, of which Mr, Simon Wolf is
Chairman, and would respectfully request
that you will consent to serve.

Yours very truly.

Prof, W. He .Holmes,

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OFFICE OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY,

Teachers College, 120th St. West, New York City.

March 2 , 1900.

My dear Sir:*- '

I take pleasure in sending you herewith an official noti-
fication of your recent election to the ’Tew York Academy of Sciences
as a Corresponding Member .

If you will let me know at your early convenience, the
Academy will send you, if you desire, a copy of its regular 3 nth In' ca-
tion, the Annals, which appears about three times a year. This is
sent to all Honorary and Corresponding Members, when they signify

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Professor William Henry Holmes,

United States national Museum.

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Hr. ¥. H. Holmes,

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Sir :

She Board of Trustees of the George Washington
University have voted to confer upon you the degree
of Doctor of Science at the next annual Commence-
ment, Wednesday evening , June 5th.

It will give me much pleasure to learn from you
that you will he present upon this occasion to re-

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THE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY.

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The rules of the Columbian University require that candidates
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy shall offer themselves for
advanced study in three topics — one major and two collateral minor
subjects ; shall sustain satisfactory examinations upon the three
subjects which they may have selected ; shall present a thesis
embodying the results of original research in their major subject,
and shall be prepared to defend such thesis before a board of
experts*

In conformity with this regulation the President of the
Columbian University and the Faculty of the School of Graduate
Studies respectfully request that you will do them the honor to
serve as a member of the Board of Experts selected to meet in
the Hall of the University on the -day of

v \90Zr._, at. 10, A. M., for tne discussion of a thesis

to be submitted by

a candidate for the degree of Doctor di Philosophy* ,

The subject of his thesis is

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Trusting that you may be able to oblige *us by kindly
consenting to accept this invitation, and soliciting a reply at such
early date as may be convenient to you,

I have the honor to be, sir,

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EL PRES ID SUITE DE LA UNIVERSLDAD Y EL DIRECTOR DEL MUSEO

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sido elejido por el Conseco Academico del Museo, en su

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The National G-eographic Society of the United States
begs to present to the Congress of Americanists meeting at
Stuttgart, Germany: Doctor William H. Holmes of Washington,

D, C., as its delegate, and authorizes him to represent this
Society in the deliberations of the Congress,

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October 29, 1904.

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OCT 31 1 1904

Dear Mr. Holmes:

I have the pleasure of sending you herewith, your
commission from the Department of State as a member of the
International American Archaeological Commission.

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To Each Honorary

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December 17,1919

Dr. William H. Holmes,

U.S, National Museum,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Dr. Holmes:

Thank you for your note of December 16 advising me of
the coming visit of Dr. Hrdlicka to China. We already have

so much material on that country, and several very competent
representatives there, that I doubt whether The Geographic could
use anything more, but will consider the matter. Meanwhile, I
appreciate your suggestion.

Perhaps you will remember my calling last winter in
reference to devoting a special number of The Geographic Magazine
to the Indians of North America. Do you think it would be
possible to arrange for a special number of The Geographic giving
a comprehensive summary of the Indian tribes of the United States
or possibly of North America,- a number modelled somewhat after
our magazine devoted to the wild animals of North America, by
Nelson*

I shall be very glad to come and see you on this subject
at your convenience.

Very sincerely yours,

Director and Editor

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GILBERT GROSVENOR , Director and Editor

December 22, 1919

Dr. William H. Holmes,

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Washington, O.C.

My dear Dr. Holmes:

Several years ago Miss Jane M. Smith of Pittsburgh bequeathed
the National Geographic Society a fund of $5,000, the income of which
by terms of the bequest is to be used, to elect Life Members of the
National Geographic Society.

By action of the Board of Managers of the Society, it was
resolved that the life memberships should be awarded by the Society in
recognition of eminent services for "the increase and diffusion of
geographic knowledge.”

I have much pleasure in advising you that at a meeting of the
Board of Managers, December 17, you were unanimously elected a
Jane M. Smith Life Member in appreciation and recognition of your
distinguished services to geography extending through a long period.

Enclosed are the names of the persons who have been elected
Life Members of the Society on the Jane M. Smith bequest.

Kindly advise the office of the National Geographic Society
to what address you desire the magazine sent. As a Life Member you
are entitled to receive the magazine regularly, and the organization
will appreciate your advising us from time to time of any change in
your address.

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RY WHITE, Vice-President
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WASHINGTON, D. C.

GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, Director and Editor JOHN OLIVER LA GO RCE, Associate Editor

O. P. AUSTIN, Secretary

GEORGE W. HUTCHISON, Associate Secretary

December 22} 1919

SMITH LIFE] MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

- HIRAM BINGHAM
ALFRED H. BROOKS
FRANK G , CARPENTER
~ 0. F. COOK
~ WILLIAM H. DALL
ROBERT F. GRIGGS

- WILLIAM H, HOLMES
~ GEORGS KENNAN

STEPHEN T. MATHER
^ EDWARD W. NELSON

- HENRY PITTIER

JOSEPH STRAUSS, REAR-ADMIRAL U.S. EAVY
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One Imported Insect for Fig Grow-
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LOST? INDIAN CITY DUG UP

Washington, Dec. 29 .(Special) .-In ;
recognition of services "for the m- ,
crease and; diffusion of geographic
knowledge,” eight men have been
awarded life membership in the Na-
tional Geographic Society. This was
announced today.

The conferring of this honor was
made possible by the Jane M. Smith
Life Membership Fund, created when
Miss Jane M. Smith, Pittsburgh, be-
queathed a fund of 900.

The eight men honored are: Wiiliam
H Holmes, Rear-Admiral Joseph
~ ^tratT^,"OT? N.; E. W. Nelson, Frank

G. Carpenter, Professor Robert F.

Griggs; Walter T. Swingle, O. F. CooK
and Stephen T. Mather. .

Only five other life memberships have
bpen awarded, those being to Hiram
Bingham., Alfred H. Brooks, William

H. Dali, George Kennaft and Henry

Pitti6r. ' v( ,

Reasons underlying the choice of the
eight men reveal fascinating narra-
tives of geographic achievement, rang-
ing from the introduction of the insect
which made , California fig-growing
practicable to the studies which made
possible the laying of the North S<^a
mine barrage.

One of the recipients, Professor
Grigjgs, was included for discovering
something new to the eye of man on
this globe, the Valley of Ten Thous-
and Smokes, in Alaska. Another, Mr.
Cook, had a part in digging up a lost
city, Machu Picchu, It revealed such
•^re-Columbian secrets as its magnificent
monuments, and the . hanging gardens
where it is thought the humble potato
originated. ■ ' 1

It was Mr. Swingle, whose name ever
will be associated with the American
raising of Smyrna figs. UiVl he intro-
duced the insect necessary for fertiliza-
tion of this variety at Fresno, \Cal., in
1899, the imported fig trees grew but
bore no fruit. Mr. Swingle also devised
numerous improvements to microscopes,
made agricultural explorations in many
r lands and introduced the date palm,

, pistachio nut and other plants of Medi-
terranean orgin into the United States.

1 Checking Germany’s U-boat warfare
by the North Sea Mine barrage is uni-
versally accounted to have been' a ma-
jor factor in the Allied victory. Pre-
liminary to this gigantic task a need-
ful element to the success of the opera-
tion was a study of the geography of
the North Sea region— a study made by
Rear-Admiral Strauss.

Admiral Strauss already was known
for his invention of the superposed'tur-
ret system of mounting guns* on battle-
ships, his part In the blockade of the
Cuban coast, his experimental work in
torpedoes and his writings on ordnance |
and ballistics. 1

Known to every student of animal life
is the work of Mr. Nelson, chief of the
United States Biological Survey. He
has added to the information concerning
animal life of North America from the
time he conducted pioneer scientific ex-
plorations in Alaska, forty years ago.

No less important than the increase of
geographic knowledge, the National Geo-
graphic Society has always held, is its
diffusion, and on this basis recognition
was accorded to Frank G. Carpenter.

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Mr. Gilbert H. Orosvehor,

Director an cl Editor,
national Geographic Society,
Washington, P* C.

% dear Mr. Pro s venor t

Hf election as a -Jane M. Smith Life Member

of the national Geographic Society is as unexpected
as it is gratifying. X had not thought of my diver-
sified exploitations within the field of geography
as worthy of particular recognition, the pleasure
of it all having been ample compensation, % homage
is due to your Board of Managers for this honor and
to you personally for your thou$xiful and generous
consideration.

X am glad to have the magazine always at

hand 'and the particular at tend is where t work. It
may, therefore, be addressed to the th S. national
Museum*

Very truly yours,

Head Curator,

Department of Anthropology,

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You are aware of the fact that sometime since a
formal decree was rendered Tahidh declared that the Smithson-
ian Institution was, in law and in fact, the National
Gallery of Art, and that the collection of the late
Harriet Lane Johnston was, therefore, awarded to it.

This decision, together with the acceptance of
the Freer Collection hy the Board of Regents last winter,
marks a genuine step in the development of art interests
in the Institution, 'which will, of course, require a
definite organization.

Pending such action as may he taken in the
future by the Board of Regents, or as subsequent develop-
ments may demand, and in the hope that I am not unduly
burdening you in view of your many duties, I ask that you
will temporarily accept the designation of Curator of the
National Gallery of Art, and will give as much of your
time as possible to the hanging of the Harriet Lane

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connection with the whole subject of the fine arts in the
Institution.

Believe me,

Very truly yours,

(Signed) R. Rathbun

Acting Secretary.

Mr. W.H. Holmes,

Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.

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Head^curator William H» Holmes

U.S. National Museum

Washington, D*C.

It gives me great pleasure to let you know that our
Anthropological Society of Berlin has appointed you a Corres-
ponding Member. I congratulate you and trust you will it take
as an expression of our sincere wish that the relations between
us and our honoured colleagues on the other side of the water
will always continue friendly and intimate. The official
notification will soon come to hand.

Believe me, dear Sir,

yours very sincerely

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JOHN BOYD THACHER, Chairman, Albany, N.Y.

W.J. SEWELL, New Jersey. A . T. B R ITT 0 N , D istrict Columbia

A. B. ANDREWS, North Carolina.

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Dr, W, H. Holmes,

July 7, 1894.

Care Field Columbian Museum,

Chicago, Til.

Dear sir:

I am in receipt of your biography, and would ask you, at
your earliest convenience to please send me a photograph of your-
self to accompany it.

Thanking you for your prompt response to my request,! am

Yours ,

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Well-Known Scientist of Chicago
Is Called to Washington.

HAS EARNED HIS PREFERMENT.

Won a Place in Geologic and Amtliroiio-
log-ical Research Recognized
Throughout the World.

Professor W. H. Holmes, curator of the
department of anthropology in the Field Co-
lumbian Museum and professor of anthropic
geology in the University of Chicago, has1
been summoned to Washington and assigned
to one of the highest positions which the
government can give a scientist.

At the Field museum the well-known
scientist had in his care one of the largest
collections illustrative of the history of
man’s progress in the arts of life in. exist-
ence, hut in his new position he will be able
to arrange and classify untold riches in
these lines. Not content with making him
head of either the national museum or t.'he
Smithsonian Institution, the government
has made a new office for him by combining-
all the vast collections in the departments
of anthropology and ethnology in the two
great institutions under his care. Not only
is this a great opportunity for work, but it is
a great and unexpected honor to the Chi-
cago man.

For years ^hese two institutions have been
receiving and storing in their halls vast
quantities of valuable material from every
corner of the country. Expeditions to all
known cites in this land and South America
have brought back discoveries which have
been only partly classified. Collectors in the
west and throughout the Indian reservations
have been gathering thousands of objects
illustrative of the development of the arts
among the Indians and sending them to the
National Museum or the Smithsonian Insti-
tution. From year to year the latter and the
bureau of ethnology have issued costly ana
valua ble publications descriptive of the work
of the several departments. These publica-
tions have for many years been enriched by
the work of Professor Holmes and beautified
by his illustrations.

Recognised by Government.

As far back as 1872 the value of his services
wras recognized by the government,' and he
was sent west with the party which pre-
pared the survey of the territories. This
work consumed eight years and brought
Professor Holmes immediately into promi-
nence. He was at that time a geologist pure
and simple, and was untiring in his explora-
tions and his careful delineation of this al-
most unknown region. His early sketches of
the Grand Canon are to be found in the
works on geology in almost every language.
He was the first to give scientific value to his
work as an artist, and he now stands at the
head of the modern school of artist-scientists.
From this time he continued his artistic la-
bors with scrupulous care, sketching and
painting in one field and another, but always
With painstaking fidelity and scientific ac-
curacy'. Of this branch of his work Head
Professor Chamberlain of the department of
geology said to-day:

“He is undoubtely the best geologic
artist of this or any other time. He is un-
doubtedly without any superior/although
he has many admiring imitators.”

This is also the opinion of Sir Archibald
Giekie, which he expresses in the introduc-
tion to the last edition of his well-known
textbook.

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| whose achievements have scientific value,
but his work in other fields of art has re- i
ceived great praise. At the recent salon of
the Arche Club he exhibited several water-
colors of rare delicacy, one of which, a pic-
ture of two little girls dancing in a sun-
bright meadow, received special mention.
His water-color work, which lias been re-
produced in the reports of the bureau of
ethnology, has drawn the admiration and in-
terest of the scientific world to those publi-
cations.

As United States Geologist.

After the survey of the west was finished
Professor Holmes was made geologist to
the United States survey, in which capacity
he served ten years, his intimate connection
with the vast western country then just
opening to the scientific world making him
an invaluable assistant.

A new interest now began to claim his at-
tention. He was already a geologist of
world-wide reputation, with a brilliant fu-
ture before him, but the new interest became
stronger every day, and he soon left the
ranks of geologists to become an ardent an-
thropologist. While in the southwest he
had seen many evidences of the ancient civ-
ilization of the west, and had had his ar-
tistic interest aroused by the aboriginal pot-
tery which was found in profusion in the
undisturbed homes of the cliff dwellers. His
wish to work in a new field led to hiS' ap-
pointment as curat'or of the department of
aboriginal pottery in the United States Na-
tional Museum in 1882, where he worked
with enthusiasm eleven years, arranging,
cataloguing, sketching and publishing the
rich material in his possession.

But Professor Holmes was too valuable
a practical field worker to be left quietly in
his museum, and he was called in 1889 to the
position of chief of all the explorations then
being made by the United States bureau of
ethnology. Ancient village sites were care-
fully examined, cliffs were scaled and lost
cities unearthed during his administration
and invaluable data brought before the sci- j
entifie world.

Cane in Chicago. j

The Columbian exposition brought Pro- i
lessor Holmes to Chicago, and as his work of
exploration was over he* was induced in
1891 to become curator of the department of
anthropology at the Field Museum, which
position he now holds1.

Two years ago he went with Allison Y.
Armour in his yacht Itune to Mexico and
Central America. On this trip he went into
Mexico and secured the material for his re-
cent “Archaeological Studies Among the An-
cient Cities of Mexico.”

Head Professor Chamberlain said to-day,
when told of the appointment: “I am very
sorry that we are going to' lose him. He was
professor of anthropic geology in my de-
partment, and we hoped that he would con-
tinue with us. He was a geologist in the
early days, and was one of the few men of
science who went into the far west. It was
■a great loss to geology when he became an
, ethnologist, but he has won laurels in his
chosen field. His last book was a beautiful
memoir upon ‘Stone Relics About Wash-
ington,’ in which he shows that all the so-
called ‘paleoliths’ or rude stone chippings
are merely chippings and rejected pieces
from the shops of later stone Implement
makers. His recent expression of his theo-
ries at Toronto puts a new face upon our
studies.”

“Dou you think his theories will cause
fresh study and inquiry along these lines?”
was asked.

“No. I consider it the last chapter. His
new book, now about to go to press,, will be a
study of the Trenton gravels, and will add
fresh weight to his theory.”

Professor Holmes returned from Toronto
to-day and was not willing to say much
about his new position.

“I will have to stay here a short time,”
said he, “in order to finish some of the work
that I have begun. After the death of Dr.
Goode recently the Smithsonian Institution
was reorganized under three heads, one of
which was anthropology. This includes all
departments of the subject, and I will have
the collections of the Smithsonian and the
National Museum to work upon. These
three departments will be under the control
of Dr. E. B. "Wolcott, the acting head.”

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SECTION V

SOCIETIES AND CLUBS, SCIENTIFIC
ARTISTIC, LITERARY, SOCIAL, ETC

W. H. HOLIES

MEMBER OF SOCIETIES AMD CLUBS

Rational Academy of Sciences April 20, 1905
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Washington Academy of Sciences President, 1917-1918.
Anthropological Society of Washington - President
Archeological Society of Washington - President
An eric an Philosophical Society December 15, 1899
Archeological Institute of America
Anerican Anthropological Association

International Congress of Americanists
- American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass
--Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
American Association of Museums

Oct. 23, 1905

Anerican Institute of Architects November 13, 1899

Alumni Association, George Washington University V?

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Cosmos Club, Washington - Founder-President-Life Member
Literary Society of Washington - Life Member
Arts Club of Washington - Life Member

Society of Washington Artists - President-Honorary President
Washington Water Color Club - President 1920

Landscape Club - Honorary Member
— National Society of the Fine Arts - President 1909
“-French Alpine Club 1926
The National Par Ms Association

- Rocky Mountain Club August 23, 1876
-Missouri Historical Society June 3, 1903
Inaugur al 0 ommit tee, 1905.

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The National, Society of the Fine Arts is now en- as in other matters of culture an example to the Nation,

tering upon its fifth season. Since its organization. The work of the Society should be so directed and so

in March, 1905, it has done much to promote the interest in energetically prosecuted as to justify the expectation now

art by conducting courses of lectures for its members and often expressed that Washington is to become the art cen-

for the general public, by holding exhibitions and assisting ter of America. A first great end to be sought is the

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Objects and Activities.

In response to a growing desire among scientific men
resident in Washington, D. C. , for the establishment of a social
club composed of men devoted to or interested in science, profes-
sionally- or otherwise, the Cosmos Club was organized November
1$, 187S, at an informal meeting held at the home of Major John
W* Powell, 910 M Street NW. When the by-laws were adopted by
the incorporators the scope of the Club was extended to include
persons interested in literature as well as science, and later i£.
was broadened to include those interested in art.

Although the original idea of the founders of the Club was
to provide for the social needs of its members, soon softer its
organization the Club recognized that it had the further function
of providing for the technical needs of its members and there ty
contributing to the advancement of science, literature, and art,
and its development has been directed to theses purposes, Ey com-
bining and fostering these purposes and following well-established
traditions the Cosmos Club has come to occupy an enviable position
among the clubs not only of this count ly but of the world, and it is
recognised as an effective factor in the advancement of the interests
which it represents.

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November 1 8, 1878.

My Dear Sir :

At an informal meeting of gentlemen, held at the house
of Major J. W. Powell, (No. gio M Street,) on November 16th, it was resolved
to organize a Social Club in Washington, on the models of the Century Club of
’ New York, and the Scientific Club of London, to be called the Scientific Club of
Washington, and to be composed of “men devoted to or interested in Science,
professionally or otherwise.’' It is conceived that such an organization for purely
social purposes is necessary in this city. It is intended to procure club rooms in
some central part of the city, which are to be open during the afternoon and
evening only; to form a library of periodicals; to provide only extremely simple
refreshments, at least at first, and, in general, to make a place where it will be

possible for the members of the Club to meet socially at any time under pleasant
surroundings.

It is estimated that a very small admission fee, (yet undetermined,) and an
annual fee of not more than ten dollars will enable us to do this, if the Club can
be organized with sixty members to begin with.

At the meeting referred to, your namewas proposed as one of the original sixty
members, and (if you were not there present) you will be called upon by one of
the members to invite your presence at a second meeting, at the same place, on
Monday night, November 25th, at 8 p. m. It is hoped that you will be ready to
join us, at least for the year 1879, m order that the experiment may have a fair
trial ; and if you are willing to do this, be pleased to drop a line to the Secretary.

Very sincerely yours,

J. W. POWELL, President.
EDWARD S., HOLDEN, Secretary.

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Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.
November 18, 1878.

To Mr. Holmes

My dear Sir:

At an informal meeting of gentlemen,
held at the house of Major J. W. Powell, (No. 910 M Street)
on November 16th, it was resolved to organize a Social
Club in Washington, on the models of the Century Club of
New York, and the Scientific Club of London, to be called
the Scientific Club of Washington, and to be composed of
"men devoted to or interested in Science, prof ess ionally
or otherwise.” It is conceived that such an organiza-
tion for purely social purposes is necessary in this city.
It is intended to procure club rooms in some central part
of the city, which are to be open during the afternoon
and evening only; to form a library of periodicals; to
provide only extremely simple refreshments, at least at
first, and, in general, to make a place where it will be
possible for the members of the Club to meet socially at
any time under pleasant surroundings.

It is estimated that a very small ad-
mission fee, (yet undetermined,) and an annual fee of not
more than ten dollars will enable us to do this, if the
Club can be organized with sixty members to begin with.

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was proposed as one of the original sixty members, and
(if you were not there present) you will be called upon
by one of the members to invite your presence at a second
meeting, at the same place, on Monday night, November 25th,
at 8 P,. M. It is hoped that you will be ready to join
us, at least for the year 1879, in order that the experi-
ment may have a fair trial; and if you are willing to do
this, be pleased to drop a line to the Secretary.

Very sincerely yours,

J. W. POWELL, President .
SD?/ARD S. HOLDEN, Secretary.

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The Committee appointed under the resolution of
December 18, 1905, to make nominations for office and for
membership in the Board of Management and the Com-
mittee on Admissions, to be voted upon at the Annual
Meeting, January 8, 1906, has made the following nomi-
nations:

For President: Simon Newcomb
For Vice-President: W. H. Holmes
For Secretary: L. 0. Howard
For Treasurer : William A. DeCaindry

For Board of Managers:

1907 1908

Cyrus Adler Wm. Bruce King

A. H. Baldwin . ; \ Cazenove G, Lee -f

1909

Charles J. Bell _j-

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J Oscar T. Crosby

J. G. Hill
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F. W. Clarke
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Walter Wyman

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1 iJ. K. Taylor

R. H. Thayer

H. W. Wiley .4.

QSM0S CLUB

WA SHINGTON, D.C.

January 24, 1924,

Dr . V. H, Holmes,

National Museum,

Washington, D. 0.

Dear Dr, Holmes:

I am pleased to inform you that you have been appoint-
ed chairman of the Art Committee for the year 1924. The
other members of the Committee are Richard A. Rice and
Edmond 0 . Tarbell

Very truly yours

Secretary.

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ADDRESS OF MR. G. K. GILBERT

At the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of
the Club, November 16, 1903

About thirty years ago Donn Piatt, the journalist, a clever and
pungent writer, entertained the readers of the Sunday Capital
by witty attacks on various persons and things. Among his
victims was Dr. Hayden, the geologist and explorer, whom he
dubbed “the triangulating Hayden” and who was goaded to
wrath and misery by the weekly thornings. He turned atten-
tion also, once or twice, to Major Powell, but the result was
different. The astute Major may have fumed internally — I do
not know — but his visible action was to seek the acquaintance
of the troublesome editor and meet him socially a few times.
There was no discussion ot the Sunday Capital , there were no
favors, nothing was done but to establish social relations — and
the attacks ceased.

I recite this incident because I have been asked to speak this
evening of the relation ol the Club to science and the scientist;
and because the principle ol the Major’s diplomacy is one of the
fundamental factors in the service of the Club to the cause of
science.

Those who search for the knowledge of nature which we call
science are unfortunately quite as fallible as their brethren in
other walks of life. False trails as well as true are followed,
and it is often hard to tell which seeker has chosen the proper
road. So there always have been, there are now, and there must
continue to be differences of opinion; and the concomitant of
divergent opinion is criticism and controversy. The inevitable
battle of ideas, whether fought in print or on the arena of the
scientific society, is by no means to be regretted, for it has a
winnowing function that could ill be spared; but there is always
danger that intellectual antagonism may lead to personal an-
tagonism, that the heat of controversy may blind investigators
to the community of their labors and interest, that egoistic am-

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bition for victory may supplant altruistic ambition for the in-
crease of knowledge, that paltry bickering may sully the honor
and dignity of leseaich. If the man who opposes our opinion
is an invisible author, or if we meet him only in the arena of
discussion, we are pione to be warped in our judgment and sus-
pect that his attire conceals a cloven hoof and a barbed tail.
But if we know him not merely as a rival but also as a man, we
can usually satisfy ourselves that his anatomy is normal and
inoffensive. It is a prime function of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, fully recognized by its leaders,
that it brings men into personal relations and thus promotes
mutual appreciation. It is a prime function of the Cosmos Club
to bind the scientific men of Washington by a social tie and thus
promote that solidarity which is important to their proper work
and influence. The world but imperfectly realizes that its prog-
ress in civilization is absolutely dependent on science, and Gov-
ernment endowment of research is yet limited, and too often
thwarted, by a lack of understanding and appreciation. The
influence of our scientific corps — an influence of national and
more than national extent — is strong in proportion as it is united,
and it suffers from every jealousy and needless antagonism.

There are no scales by which a social influence may be weighed.
There is no logic by which the credit for a moral result can be
fairly apportioned to its causes. But I fear no dispute in saying
that su spici on, j ealousy , and dissension were comparatively ch ar-
acteiistic of the scientific body of Washington a quarter century
ago, and that mutual appreciation, good will, and support are
comparatively characteristic of the greatly enlarged scientific
body of to-day. And I hold that the share of the Cosmos Club
m the working of this change has counted for more in the promo-
tion of science than has its hospitality to the associations that
meet under its roof.

In passing now from the service the Club renders science to
the service it renders the individual scientist, I feel that I must
tread gently, for the ground is tender. Let me begin with the
truism that in each profession are men of high culture and men
of inferior Culture, men who possess the clubbable quality and
men who lack it. Oui Club was projected by men of a single
profession, science, and it was by their invitation that men of

culture in other professions took part in the organization. At
an early stage the door was opened wide to the members of the
Philosophical Society, then our only important scientific asso-
ciation, but credentials were demanded from all others. The
principle thus established has never been abandoned, and the
standard of admissions has always been higher for candidates
outside the scientific field than for those within it. The door
has yielded somewhat easily to the touch of the scientist but
has resisted the push of the doctor, the lawyer, the man of busi-
ness, or the man of leisure unless his personal desire was rein-
forced by the possession of high culture and clubbability.

Thus it has come to pass that we of the scientific contingent
have been able to contribute less of social advantage than we
have received. We have come in almost unsorted, the refined
and the crude, the apt and the less apt, the socially skilled and
the shy, and we have chosen our associates with all the skill we
could command. It is barely possible that we have “made
good” in some other way — I hope we have — but, whatever may
be thought as to that, there can be no question that our own
outlook has been broadened, our angles have been rounded, our
conceit has been moderated, and in general we have been human-
ized by the good society we have enjoyed. I would not carry
a metaphor too far, but there would be a measure of truth in the
figure if we should call the present occasion a silver wedding of
Science and Culture.

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I am handing you herewith ray Catalogue of the
Art Works of the Gluh which I regret to say is by no

means perfect.

Little data regarding the works came

to me from my predecessors on the Committee. Mr. Smilie,
who preceeded me states in a letter dated March 6, 1919
that according to his recollection ”a list was prepared
some seven or eight years ago and it is possible that it
lurks in seme pigeon hole of the Manager 1 s desk”. Mr.

A. H. Baldwin in a letter dated March 31, 1919 states
that ”1 made a list myself when I was on the Committee
some twenty years ago and I assume that this list must
be in the Club's office”.

The Card Catalogue submitted herewith is

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brought practically up to date. The cards are assembled
by rooms as now installed, but changes in placement are
often made without reference to the Committee and the
task of keeping the record up to date is rendered diffi-
cult.

I am handing you also papers relating to in-
surance of the works and such correspondence as has come
into my hands.

The fire which occurred at the Club recently
did very considerable damage to works of art that happen-
ed to come within its reach. Numerous engravings and
other minor works were blackened by smoke and had to be

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in the matter of disposal and a large number of engravings,

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further use to the Club, were presented to the Depart-
ment af History in the National Dluseum. A few of the
less seriously damaged pictures found places in the
Club Rooms, while others, badly injured, were relegated
to storage along with previous accumulations of useless
material. The most serious damage was the partial

obliteration of a large Japanese painting recently pre-
sented to the Club by Mrs. Judge Thayer.

Committee by Judge McCoy in which he objects to the
return of the series of the Presidents1 portraits to
their former place on the walls of the north stairway.
As the original installation met with general approval
by Club members, I cannot alone take the responsibility
of making the change suggested. I am, therefore,

asking that no action be taken in the matter until my
resignation as Chairman of the Committee is accepted
and until the Committee can meet and take necessary
action.

to be helpful in various directions I have undertaken
heavier burdens than my present state of health warrants
and I am, therefore, presenting to the Board my resignation
as Chairman of the Committee on Art. and Decoration and
ft n n &■> ra +n -ho .£mg±.iaf> v part In its affairs.

Sincerely yours,

I am enclosing a note addressed to the Art

I find, to my regret, that due to the desire

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To the Board of Managers,

Cosmos Club,

Washington, I). C*

Gentlemen

?or reasons given in my report re-
cently handed to the Secretary of the Glut , X
find it necessary to avoid further responsibil-
ity as chairman of tho Committee on Art and
Decoration, and hereby tender my resignation
as a member of that Committee* 1 have notified
thei other member e of the Committee, Messrs. Bio©
and Tarbell , of this action*.

Very respectfully.

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WASH I NGTON,D.C.

August 17, 1927.

Dr. W. H. Holmes,
Cosmos Club,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Holmes;

You have been appointed chairman of a committee
of which the other members are Herbert Friedenwald,

R. L» Faris, and D. L. Hazard, to consider the
suggestion of Allen C. Clark of the Committee on
Historic Sites that the Club take over the tablet
prepared by that committee for the Cameron House in
1925 and have the inscription changed to suit the
wishes of the Club and then have the tablet put in a
suitable place on the building. In 1925 the Board
declined to permit the placing of the tablet because
the inscription was not considered satisfactory.

The tablet is in Mr. Clark fs office at 316
Fourteenth Street and Mr. Marshall had prepared a
form of inscription which he thought proper. I have
the information which he included but not the exact
form. You may possibly know something about it, or
perhaps Mr. Charles Moore, who was a member of the
committee that considered the matter in 1925.

Perhaps by comparing the paper which I have with
the tablet it would be possible to determine whether
the inscription could be changed satisfactorily.

Very truly yours

Secretary

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OSMOS CLU B
WASH INCTON, D.C.

Dr. W. H. Holmes,

Nat i onal Museum ,

Washington, D. G.

Dear Dr. Holmes:

The Board of Management has directed
me to thank you on behalf of the Club for your
most generous gift of four of your oil paint-
ings. They are an important and welcome addition
to the works of art of the Club.

Very truly yours,

Secretary.

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June IS, 192S.

Dr* William H. Holmes,

national Mu seum,

Washington, D* C •

Dear Doctor Holmes;

Will you on November 12 make a short speech of not to exceed
15 minutes on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary celebration
of the Club* If you would rather not talk about the artists who
have been members then talk about the early days. Please let me
know whether I may consider this an engagement.

Sincerely yours.

Chairman of

Anniversary Committee.

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which was first rented and later purchased, December 5, 1906, and 23 Madison Place,

which was purchased February 11, 1907

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FIVE of ( the men who were among
the founders of the Cosmos
Club 50 years ago will celebrate
tomorrow the golden anni-
versary of that event.

Dr. W. H. Holmes, Dr. Henry S.
Pritchett, Dr. Otto H. Tittmann, Dr.
H. C. Yarrow and H. W. Henshaw
are scholars whose names graced the
first roll of the club and are on the
list of members today. Dr. Holmes
and Dr. Pritchett will speak at the
fiftieth anniversary meeting, over
which the president of the club,
Wendell Phillips Stafford, associate
■justice of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia, will preside.

Although he was only eight years
from his college graduation at the
time he became one of the founders
of the club, William Henry Holmes
had already established himself as a
young man who would merit the hon-
ors which later came to him. As di-
rector of the National Gallery of Art.
he looks back over a series of posi-
tions, any one of which would honor
a man. He has been chief of the
Bureau of American Ethnology, cu-
rator of anthropology of the Na-
tional Museum and of 1 the Art Gallery.
He is a member of a long list of hon-
orary societies and was president of
the Washington Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Pritchett has engaged in im-
portant expeditions for astronomical
investigation, has been president of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
is president of the Carnegie Founda-
tion for Advancement of Teaching and
wears the rosette of the Legion of
Honor.

The three other living founders
achieved fame in different lines, Mr.
Henshaw as a naturalist, Dr. Yarrow
as a surgeon and Dr. Tittmann as a
geodesist. Dr. Yarrow was surgeon
and naturalist for the expedition ex-
ploring the territory west of the 100th
meridian, member of the medical fac-
ulty of George Washington University
for 30 years, and curator of reptiles
of the United States National Mu-
seum. It was Dr. Tittmann who repre-
sented the United States in settling
the boundary between Alaska and
Canada. He has been superintendent
of the United States Coast and Geo-
detic Survey and president of the Na-
tional Geographic Society.

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Leland Ossian Howard is chairman of
the committee which is arranging for
the gathering whose brilliance, if meas-
ured in watts, would rival Broadway at
night. Dr. Roland Cotton Smith, known
in Washington as the former rector of
St. John’s, will return for the occasion
as a speaker. Dr. Harvey Wiley, George
Otis Smith, Charles E. Munroe and
Marcus Benjamin will address the
audience of scholars. If their engage-
ments will permit, Ray Standard Baker,
Gifford Pinchot and Livingston Far-
rand, president of Cornell University,
will come to speak.

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npHERE are 59 names written on the
-*■ page of the minutes of the Cosmos
Club, dated January 6, 1879, and before
the date of the annual election January
13 one more was added, making the
original 60 members planned for. In
a letter inviting the 60 charter members
to form a club which today is world
renowned, John W. Powell, the first
president, outlined the purposes and
reasons for the organization of a “social
club in Washington on the models of
the Century Club of New York and the
Scientific Club of London, to be called
the Scientific Club of Washington, and
to be composed of ‘men devoted to or
interested in science, professionally or
otherwise.’ ” He elaborated the idea by
adding, “It is conceived that such an
organization for purely social purposes
is necessary in this city. It is intended
to procure clubrooms in some central
part of the city, which are to be open
during the afternoon and evening only;
to form a library of periodicals; to pro-
vide only extremely simple refresh-
ments, at least at first, and, in general,
to make a place where It will be pos-
sible for members of the club to meet
socially at any time under pleasant sur-
roundings.”

He was authorized to send out this
letter at a preliminary meeting held in
his home on November 1.6, 1878, when
a group of men of gregarious instincts
with scientific tastes laid the founda-
tion of the club which honors men in
bestowing membership.

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natural that a club of this kind should
develop in Washington, for it has been
pointed out that the time was ripe for;
its formation. Washington with its
scientific bureaus was a lodestone'
which attracted brilliant men. As the
scientific and governmental center of

the United States, it invited more dis-

tinguished men in sciende and public

service than any other city. Artists and
literary men of distinction were found
here, too.

In the Coast and Geodetic and Geolog-
ical Surveys, the Bureau of Entomology,
the Naval Observatory, the Signal S'erv-,;
ice — now the Weather Bureau — in

other governmental departments, and
the Smithsonian Institution were men
who had common interests. To them
a place for the exchange of ideas and
the meeting of others with similar tastes
was valuable and pleasurable. There
were other men in the District of Co
lumbia eligible to membership, who had
come to the Capital to conduct research
work at the Library of Congress or in
many of the departments.

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A LTHOUGH in forming, a club which
cultivated scientific and art in
terests the suggestion was made that
the one in Washington be like the
Century Club of New York, it was not
the aim, nor has it been the result, to
imitate it exactly. Membership in the
Cosmos Club is an honor, but it is not
meant to be one crowning a man’s
achievements. Rather it is to stimulate,
the men who are engaged in making'
their mark in the learned world. In-i
stead of a staid club where only those;
who have arrived may bask in the glory
of their achievements, it is a place foi
them to enjoy while they are making r
the grade.

There was a club back in those times
which by a two-part system satisfied
both the minds and the gregarious in-
stincts of men of brains. At .the meet-1
ings of the Philosophical Society held
in Ford’s Theater, on Tenth street
formal papers were read to men whi
were capable of understanding them
The only visitors at these meetings were
others of established reputation in
science or philosophy. After a stimulat-
ing program on an abstruse subject it
was customary for those present to en-
joy social contacts by adjourning to a
nearby restaurant for beer and pretzels
It was but ahother step to bind cold
science and the social amenities into a
club. Many members of the Philosophi-
cal Society upon invitation became
members of the Cosmos Club.

It was not by chance that this more
completely organized group received the
name that signifies “the world as an
orderly system.”

The name of the club was chosen by
ballot. Out of 27 votes cast, 21 were in
favor of the name “Cosmos.” “Kosmos,”
“Scientific” and “Joseph Henry” were
other names considered. When it was
pointed out that consistency demanded
'the spelling of “club” with “K” if Cos-
mos were spelled that, way, the founders
decided to cling to the alliterative anc
usual C’s.

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street,. Hitching with the horse headed
;he wrong way was quite all right, for
wen one-half the avenue was not one
way.

There, in a pie-shaped room whose
broad side was on the corner, another
’air-sized one, and a cloakroom, mem-
oers could drop in from noon until
midnight to enjoy the amenities of club
life. After the first few months of
adjustments, when a code of by-laws
and rules and regulations was estab-
lished, the board of management au-
thorized the serving of punch at
monthly meetings. Perhaps this hos-
pitality was one of the reasons that
during the first year it was necessary
to take additional rooms.

Never applauding prominence, bm
always recognizing merit, the club en-
tertains men who contribute to the art,
and scientific worlds when they visit
in Washington. Membership is now
^extended to those of intellectual qual-
ification and of proficiency in literature,
art and law, as well as to those who
have achieved distinction in science.

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A T first the number of members in
scientific fields overbalanced the
others, the Geological Survey having
the most men in the club. Some years
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DR. L. O. HOWARD, CHAIRMAN
OF COMMITTEE PLANNING
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF
THE COSMOS CLUB.

The first officers of , the club were :
President, Maj.. John W. Powell; vice
president, Prof. William Harkness;
secretary, .Prof. E. S. Holden; treasurer,
Dr. John S. Billings; trustees, Cant. E,
C. Dutton, Dr. J. C. Welling, and Col.
Garrick Mallery.

Less than a month after the first
meeting when men started a club that
was to become even more unusual with
the years, rooms were rented in the
Corcoran Building. The first home v. as
situated on that corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and Fifteenth street which is
opposite the Treasury and is now oc-
cupied by the Washington Hotel. At one
time $53 rent was paid monthly for
2,200 feet of space in a six-room suite!

There is some question in the minds
of those who look at the picture of
that neighborhood at the time of the
opening of the Cosmos Club as to why
rooms v/ere necessary at all. Except
for protection from the weather and
the comforts of armchairs, there seems
to be no reason why even scientists
could not have held their meetings in
that quiet street. A few horses and
buggies, the crawling horsecar, and an
occasional passerby strolling across did
not bring confusion to the broad ave-
nue. There was not a policeman’s
shrill whistle to crack the calm and
there was no such heinous offense as

ship into 11 descriptive groups as fol-
lows: “Geologists, biologists, anthro-

pologists, chemists and astronomers —
including many scientific men; writers
of prose, poetry and editorials — mostly
literary men; painters, engravers and
sculptors: — all men of genius; doctors,
dentists, physicians and specialists —
but no quacks; lawyers — but no shy-
sters; Army and Navy officers — all
heroes; teachers and professors, and
some educators; preachers and min-
isters— all divines; bankers and finan-
ciers; designers of buildings — all archi-
tects; statesmen, diplomats, secretaries,
directors, chiefs, superintendents, chief
clerks, office holders and others; some
400 in all, and absolutely select.

Scanning the list of members of the
Cosmos Club is like reading Who’s
Who, although reading Who’s Who
is not like reviewing the membership of
the club. It is specifically mentioned
in the by-laws that the club shall be
composed of men who have done meri-
torious original work in science, litera-
ture or the fine arts; who, though not
occupied in science, literature or the
fine arts, are well known to be culti-
vated in a specific department thereof;
who are recognized as distinguished in
a learned profession or in public service.
Consequently, the roll reveals names
that are known in intellectual circles

the world over. There are many which;
are glamorous even to the layman. .

The names of the men who have pre-
sided over the Cosmos Club are signifi-
cant. One appears in this office as
merely H. W. Wiley. It is Dr. Harvey
Wiley who classifies himself ds dietitian
and who is known everywhere as the
grand old man who made eating a
science as well as a habit.

One of the presidents of the Cosmos
Club v/as the man who brought geog-
raphy into the home, Gilbert Grosvenor.
Another was Herbert Putnam, who is
resnonsible for the most usable large
collection of books in the world, that of
the Library of Congress. Charles Ed-
ward Munroe, inventor of smokeless
powder and authority on explosives;
George K. Burgess, director of that
mainspring of science in the United
States, th?5 Bureau of Standards; Gif-
ford Pinchot, the conservationist, and
Charles L. Marlatt, who is chief of the i
Bureau of Entomology, all former presi- j
dents, demonstrate the breadth and 1
depth of learning at home in this club
of reason.

It has been suggested that an investi-
gation would reveal that the longevity
of members of the Cosmos Club is
greater than that found in other clubs.
The reasons why these scholars live to a

ripe old age are suggested, too. They
are men who have not engaged in the
stress of business competition, who have
avoided the tribulations of amassing
wealth, and who are occupied with the
work they love. They are contented,
but not static; curious, but not acquisi-
tive. Unlike business men they do not
work to be able to stop work, but they
outline long programs of investigations,
study and research which keep them
young in the anticipation of accom-
plishment.

* * * *

rNR. L. O. HOWARD, who has served
this country in war as a member
of the committee on agriculture of the

National Council of Defense and in

peace in the Public Health Service, the
Bureau of Entomology and the Na-
tional Museum, and who is also an offi-
cer of the Legion of Honor, pays a
tribute to the wives of members of the
Cosmos Club. He says that they are
women who have understood the am-
bitions of scientists and artists and who
have not urged them into grooves where
they must concentrate on building up
fortunes for social advancement. _ He
adds that whereas careers can be ruined
or turned away from real achievement
by constant pressure for money or social
position, they can be made by sympa-
thetic understanding.

On the other hand, this statement
may be another tribute to the scholar,
because he exercises wisdom in select-
ing a wife.

Although membership did not increase
rapidly, because of the conservative pol-
icy of the club, it increased steadily, j
and in a few years it was necessary to j
move the headquarters from Pennsyl- j
vania avenue.

In 1883 the Cosmos Club was moved
i into the neighborhood where it has
grown and prospered ever since. A
. house was rented on Madison place and
! later Dolly Madison’s house, on the j
: corner at H street, was purchased. At !

the present time the club property is |
. composed of three units—1 -the Dolly
: Madison house, the main building,
which joins on Madison place, and the
next-door residence, the Benjamin Ogle
Tayloe house.

Even the houses which provide the
headquarters have as brilliant records
as the members. The widowed Dolly
Madison lived in the one at Madison
place and H street for 12 years, attract-
ing a salon that might compare favor-
ably with a board meeting of the club.

: Senators Don Cameron and Mark
: Hanna have at different times occupied
the Tayloe house, named for the co-
temporary of the colorful Dolly.

; However, in spite of the fact that the
buildings have been altered and equip-
ped to serve the increased membership,
the time has come when the Cosmos
Club is faced with the . choice of not
receiving into membership men who
: are most decidedly worthy of the honor,

1 or obtaining larger quarters. It is just
: possible to serve the needs of the ap-
proximately 1,700 members, who are

about equally divided into resident and
| non-resident. Sleeping, quarters are
provided, meals are served, separate
I dining and reception rooms are main-
lined for members’ families and the
usual clubrooms are at the disposal of
the members. In addition, a hall is
furnished for the meetings of societies
affiliated with the Washington Acad-
emy of Sciences and rooms are avail-
able for their board and committee
meetings. It has always been the policy
of the club to co-operate in every way
with scientific organizations.

* * A- sjt

'■J'HIS golden anniversary celebration
is not the first anniversary to be
honored. In 1903 a formal occasion
was made of the twenty-fifth birthday
of the club. Joseph Coverton Horn-
blower presided and 260 members were
present. The volume which contains
the records of the history otf the club
and of the . celebration in 1902 is
illustrated with a page decoration
showing the seal of the club, the dates,
1878-1903, the name of the organiza-
tion, and the words. Science, Litera-
ture, Art and Law. This was a fitting
heading for the signatures of those
who attended the commemorative ex-
ercises.

DR. WILLIAM H. HOLMES,
FOUNDER AND SPEAKER AT
THE TWENTY-FIFTH AND FIF-
TIETH ANNIVERSARIES OF THE
COSMOS CLUB.

G. K. Gilbert commended the op- <
portunity for men who are quite de-
cided in their views to exchange ideas
with those of opposite beliefs without
antagonism. He pointed out that
meeting opponents only in the arena
does not give the same opportunity,
for developing broadly as exchanging
views in the club, and that personal
relationships promote mutual appre-
ciation. Binding scientific men by
social ties promotes solidarity of their
work and influence, according to him.
He called the occasion the silver anni-
versary of science and culture.

Dr. William H. Holmes spoke on that
occasion 25 years ago, and will be the
only one on that program to repeat to-
morrow. He called himself one of the
pre-Cosmian elements which crystal-
lised into the Cosmos Club, and was
gratified because the club was becom-
ing known as a promoter of art and art
interests.

The 50 years that have seen the
growth of a club devoted to intellectual
men have also seen stupendous changes
in the world without. Many of them
can possibly be traced to the work of
the scholars who are members of this
organization. Progress in radio, , elec-
tricity, aeronautics, medicine, public
health, agriculture, art and literature
has been facilitated by the men who
have dedicated themselves to culture.

It is impossible to imagine what
changes will have taken place when
the Cosmos Club celebrates its hun-
dredth anniversary, although many of
these scientists, with their long-range
reasoning, might be able to prophesy
even now.

On this occasion Dr. S. P. Langley,
known as head of the Smithsonian
and a pioneer in aeronautics, spoke
of the pleasure he had enjoyed in
this scientific home. He compared. the
Cosmos with more formal clubs to the
advantage of the former. He was
gratified that there were representa-
tives of the church among the mem- .
bers because “one of the best prepara-
tions for a proper mind in which to
meet such possible changes of' scien-
tific doctrine lies, then, in the cath-
olic spirit in , which we may look out
on all life, not on the Scientific life
alone, and this spirit is fostered in
a club which opens its doors wide
to all thought, and whose motto might
be ‘Nothing human is foreign to me.’ ”
The address of Maj. E. C. Dutton,
U. S. A., was read, in which he wrote
of the reasons for the founding of
the club. He referred to the double
meetings of the old Philosophical So-
ciety and the informal gatherings at
the home of Prof. Henry at the Smith-
sonian and with Prof. Baird. They
were the forerunners of the club, for
men with kindred interests. He be-
lieved that the policy of selecting . only
members whose tastes and habits con-
form to the standards of the club was,
the reason for its success. Prof. Simon
Newcomb, in' the naval service, con-
gratulated the members upon their
conservatism and the development of
an organization to which not wealth,
but art, literature and science are im-
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SEASON OF 1899-1900.

December

16th,

Me. F. E. LEUPP.

December

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. Mns. JEAN M. LANDER.

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13th,

Mr. A. GRAHAM BELL.

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. Ma. J. STANLEY-BROWN.

February

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Me. W. T. HARRIS.

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(Mr. J. R. HAWLEY.

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Mr. H. C. BOLTON.

March

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April

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Me. J. W. POWELL.

April

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May

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JUDO & DETWEI LER. PRINTERS.

Ifcrel i 25, 1925

Mp dear Hr# Bauer:

I have your favor of March 15th notifying
xm of the action of the Executive Committee of the
literary Society in making me an Honorary Associate
of ilia Socle ly*

I appreciate this vary generous and. consider-
ate action, since 1 had. oom to realise that due to
my failure to at tent the meetings my name must be
dropped from the roll of tbs Society, 1 arn now glad
to have the opportunity of letting the Society know
that my failure to at 'tend the meetings, was not due to
any lack of appreciation of the honor of .-.embers hip
or* of the pleasure of association with my long-iliat
friends in literary *ork, but the time has come
to li it the range 'of the activities in '.which X have
had the privilege of engaging during fifty-four years
of residence in bashing* m,

You wi 1 1 undo rs t and , also, I am . sure , t hat
the gradual failure of hrs * Hal res f health has roe bed
social activities on my part of their reason to he#

Please convey to the Executive Committee my
sincere - my grateful appreciation of the action
taken*

Sincerely yours,

hr# touts A# Bauer,
501 The Ontario,
Washington, D* 0#

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It gives me pleasure to inform you that at the May meeting of
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Professor William Henry Holmes, Art Editor of Art
and Archaeology, and one of the very foremost figures
in American archaeology for many years, was recently
the recipient of an additional honor in his election
by "enthusiastic, unanimous acclaim” to honorary
membership in the French Alpine Club. The Club’s
President, M. S. Regaud, in his letter of announcement,
says: "The General Assembly of the F. A. C. has
desired to honor in your person the man of science who
has devoted his entire life to the study of the moun-
tains, of their phenomena and of their beauties.
M. de Margerie, president of the Commission of
Scientific Works of the F. A. C., in recalling all your
titles before my colleagues, moved our feelings by the
remembrance of all the great and fine things you have
accomplished. We have not forgotten the beautiful
panorama of the Grand Canon of the Colorado which
appeared in our Annual some fifty years ago.”

The minute of the Society recording Prof. Holmes’s
election is as follows in translation:

FRENCH ALPINE CLUB
General Assembly of Sunday, March 25, 1Q26

“M. Emm. de Margerie submitted to the Assembly
for election as honorary members of the French
Alpine Club, the names of Messrs. W. H. Holmes, of
Washington (United States), and Maurice Lugeon,’ of
Lausanne (Switzerland) .

“The former, in spite of his advanced age — he was
born in 1846 — is still at the present time Keeper of the
Gallery of the Fine Arts in the Museum of Washington,
after a career devoted entirely to art and science ; that
is to say, in some measure an American Schrader.

"By turns, or rather simultaneously, draughtsman,
geologist, explorer, archeologist, he was connected for
many years, first with the Survey of the Territories,
directed by Dr. Hayden, then with the Federal Geo-
logical Service and with the Bureau of Ethnology.

"We are indebted to him for magnificent drawings
representing the region of the Rocky Mountains under
all its aspects. Moreover, he is the principal author
of an atlas of the Colorado, published nearly a half
century ago, and which remains one of the master-
pieces of the cartography of the New World. But his
greatest title to glory is in having revealed to the
public, in plates of marvellous exactitude, the splendors
of the Grand Canon, unsuspected up to his time. The
members of the French Alpine Club have also been able
to admire in one of our old Annuals, more than forty
years ago, the reproduction of one of his panoramas,
due to the ever so faithful talent of Lieut. Col. Prudent'

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“The election of Messrs. Holmes and Lugeon, put
to the vote, was adopted by acclamation.”

“ (A true copy:

"Emm. de Margerie)”

Gratifying as this honor is to all members of the
Archaeological Society of Washington, and to the in-
numerable friends of the recipient, it is also worth

remembering that Professor Holmes is not without
honor in his own country. The value of his achieve-
ments in geology is attested by the fact that two im-
portant mountains in the far west have been named for
him.

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HERRICK HAMMOND, 2nd Vice President. Chicago \

I.TON B. MEDARY, PRESIDENT, PHILADELPHIA

.LIAM EMERSON, 1st Vice President, Boston

EDWARD C. KEMPER, Executive Secretary, Washington, D. C

FRANK C. BALDWIN, Secretary, Washington, D. C.

EDWIN BERGSTROM, Treasurer, Los Angeles

The American Institute of Architects

WASHINGTON, D. C.

December 27, 1927.

'To Each Honorary and Honorary Corresponding Member of
The American Institute of Architects:

Dear Sir:

By action of the Board of Directors of The American Institute
of Architects, Honorary and Honorary Corresponding Members of the
Institute will receive The Journal of The American Institute of
Architects, beginning with the January number.

It is hoped that each of these honored members of the Institute
will find The Journal of some interest, and worthy of a place on his
library table .

In case this letter does not bear your correct address - in the
lower left corner - or in case it is an incomplete .address , please
advise the Institute at The Octagon, Washington, D. C., in order that
correction may be made, and in order that the January number of The
Journal may reach you safely.

Very truly yours,

Dr, W. holmes,
National Museum,
Washington, D. C.

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VOLUME I

SECTION VI BIBLIOGRAPHY.

PERSONAL l ; 2- 'Sj

The year 1926 is for me a most memorable one
as it came near being the final chapter in my career,

A sore foot developing into blood poisoning made the
amputation of my left leg above the knee necessary. The wjs:
two weeks in Emergency Hospital, however, found me all
right again and I was soon at my desk at the Gallery as
usual. The hospital experience was a most agreeable
one, made so by my many friends who visited me constantly
and kept my room fragrant with no end of blossoms.

The year 1925 was also marked by the death, after
a most painful illness, of Mrs. Holmes and the consequent
desertion of the home on Belmont Street. The place was
offered for sale but there were no purchasers, the much
boosted real estate market having collapsed the year be-
fore. Mrs. Holmes1 sister, Agnes Osgood Clifton, kept
house for me for a few months, after which I took rooms
at the Cosmos Club where I have lived ever since. The
Belmont Street house at this date, July 1929, is occupied
by my bachelor son Osgood.

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Bibliography of William Henry Holmes

Compiled by
Ella Leary

(Extract from the Holmes Anniversary Volume)

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Printed list of 1916 with additions in type-
writing bringing the record up to 1928, two hundred
and eighteen papers in all.

To this list of papers there should he added
introductory matter to the annual reports of the
Bureau of American Ethnology for the period 1902-
1909. fo;1this, also,; should he added numerous
articles,., in scientific journals, magazines and
newspapers.

Washington

1916

Bibliography of William Henry Holmes

Compiled by Ella Leary

Librarian of the Bureau of American Ethnology

1875 I. First ascent of the Mountain of the
Holy Cross, Colorado. Expedition of
1874. Christian Weekly, May 1, 1875.

1876 2. Report on the geology of the north-
western portion of the Elk range. Eighth
Annual Report of the United States Geo-
logical and Geographical Survey of the Ter-
ritories, 1874, pp. 59-71, Washington,
1876.

3. A notice of the ancient ruins of south-
western Colorado, examined during the
summer of 1875. Bulletin of the United
States Geological and Geographical Survey
of the Territories, 11, pp. 3-24, Washing-
ton, 1876.

1877 4. Report on the geology of the district
examined by the southwestern or San
Juan division during the season of 1875.
Ninth Annual Report of the United States
Geological and Geographical Survey of the
Territories, 1875, PP- 237-276, Washing-
ton, 1877.

1878 5. Report on the geology of the Sierra
Abajo and West San Miguel mountains.
Tenth Annual Report of the United States
Geological and Geographical Survey of the
Territories, 1876, pp. 187-195, Washing-
ton, 1878.

6. Report on the ancient ruins of south-
western Colorado, examined during the
summers of 1875 and 1876. Ibid., pp.
383-408.

1880 7. Fossil forests of the volcanic tertiary
formations of the Yellowstone National
Park. Bulletin of the United States Geo-
logical and Geographical Survey of the
Territories, 1879-80, v, pp. 125-132,
Washington, 1880.

1881 8. Glacial phenomena in the Yellowstone
Park. American Naturalist, vol. xv, pp.
203-208, Philadelphia, 1881.

1883 9. Report on the geology of the Yellow-
stone National Park. Twelfth Annual
Report of the United States Geological and
Geographical Survey of the Territories,
1878, 11, pp. 1-57, Washington, 1883.

10. Art in shell. Transactions of the
Anthropological Society of Washington,

1882-1883, n, PP- 94-H9, Washington,
1883.

11. The use of the cross symbol by the
ancient Americans. Ibid., pp. 161-172.

12. Art in shell of the ancient Ameri-
cans. Second Annual Report of the Bu-
reau of Ethnology, 1880-81, pp. 179-305,
Washington, 1883.

1884 13. Prehistoric textile fabrics of the
United States, derived from impressions
on pottery. Third Annual Report of the
Bureau of Ethnology, 1881-82, pp. 393-
425, Washington, 1884.

14. Eccentric figures from southern
mounds. Science, in, pp. 436-438, Cam-
bridge, Mass., 1884.

15. Appearance of the cyclone cloud at
Rochester, Minn., 1883. Ibid., p. 304.

16. Burial-masks of the ancient Peru-
vians. Ibid., iv, pp. 10-11.

17- Illustrated catalogue of a portion of
the collections made by the Bureau of
Ethnology during the field season of
1881. Third Annual Report of the Bu-
reau of Ethnology, 1881-82, pp. 427-510
Washington, 1884.

1885 18. Report [of the Geologist] to the Di-
rector of the United States Geological
Survey, 1884-85. Sixth Annual Report
of the United States Geological Survey,
1884-83, pp. 94-97, Washington, 1885.
19. Monoliths of San J uan Teotihuacan,
Mexico. American Journal of Arche-
ology, 1, pp. 361-371, Baltimore, 1885.

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HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME

20. Examples of iconoclasm by the con-
querors of Mexico. American Natural-
ist, xix, pp. 1031-1037, Philadelphia,
1885.

21. Evidences of the antiquity of man
on the site of the City of Mexico. Trans-
actions of the Anthropological Society of
Washington, 111, pp. 68-81, Washington,
1885.

22. Origin and development of form and
ornament in ceramic art. [Abstract.]
Ibid., pp. 112-114. [See No. 30.]

23. [Quoted on] The glaciers in the
Rocky mountains. Fifth Annual Report
of the United States Geological Survey,
1883-84, pp. 344-347, Washington, 1885.

1886 24. The trade in spurious Mexican anti-
quities. Science, vn, pp. 170-172, 264,
New York, 1886.

25. Sketch of the great Serpent mound.
Ibid., viii, pp. 624-628, New York, 1886.

26. Textile art in prehistoric archaeol-
ogy. American Antiquarian, viii, pp.
261-266, Chicago, 1886.

27. Report on the section of American
prehistoric pottery in the United States
National Museum. Annual Report of the
United States National Museum, 1885,
pt. 2, p. 69, Washington, 1886.

28. Pottery of the ancient Pueblos.
Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of
Ethnology, 1882-83, pp. 257-360, Wash-
ington, 1886.

29. Ancient pottery of the Mississippi
valley. Ibid., pp. 361-436.

30. Origin and development of form and
ornament in ceramic art. Ibid., pp. 437-

465.

31. Ancient pottery of the Mississippi
valley. Proceedings of the Davenport
Academy of Natural Sciences, 1882-84,
iv, pp. 123-196, Davenport, Iowa, 1886.

1887 32. The use of gold and other metals
among the ancient inhabitants of Chi-
riqui, Isthmus of Darien. Bulletin 3,
Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 1887-
27 pp.

1888 33. Ancient art of the province of Chi-
riqui, Colombia. Sixth Annual Report
of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1884-85, pp.
13-187, Washington, 1888.

v 34. A study of the textile art in its rela-
tion to the development of form and
ornament. Ibid., pp. 189-252.

35. Report [of the Geologist-in-charge]
to the Director of the United States
Geological Survey, 1885-86. Seventh
Annual Report of the United States Geo-
logical Survey, 1885-86, pp. 136-137.
Washington, 1888.

36. Use of gold and other metals in an-
cient Chiriqui. Jewelers' Circular and
Horological Review, xix, pp. 34; 37-38;
65-68; 88; 91-92, New York, 1888.

1889 37- Textile fabrics of ancient Peru,
Bulletin 7, Bureau of Ethnology , Wash-
ington, 1889. 17 pp.

38. Report [of the Geologist-in-charge]
to the Director of the United States Geo-
logical Survey, 1886-87. Eighth Annual
Report of the United States Geological Sur-
vey, 1886-8'/, pt. 1, pp. 202-203, Wash-
ington, 1889.

39. Report [of the Geologist-in-charge]
to the Director of the United States Geo-
logical Survey, 1887-88. Ninth Annual
Report of the United States Geological Sur-
vey, 1887-88, pp. 143-144, Washington,
1889.

40. On some spurious Mexican an-
tiquities and their relation to ancient
art. Annual Report of the Smithsonian
Institution, 1886, pt. 1, pp. 3T9~334>
Washington, 1889.

41. [Review of] Pitt Rivers’ Excava-
tions in Cranborne Chase, near Rush-
more, on the borders of Dorset and
Wilts, 1880-88. Vol. 11. Printed pri-
vately, 1888. American Anthropologist,
II, p. 172, Washington, 1889.

42. Pottery of the Potomac tide- water
region. Ibid., pp. 246-252.

43. Debasement of Pueblo art. Ibid.,
p. 320.

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44. Archaeological collections from Ala-
bama. Ibid., p. 350.

1890 45. A quarry workshop of the flaked-
stone implement makers in the District
of Columbia. American Anthropologist,
ill, pp. 1-26, Washington, 1890.

46. The Potomac valley as a field for
archaeologic research. Ibid., p. 26.

47. On the evolution of ornament — an
American lesson. Ibid., pp. 137-146.

48. A West Virginia rock shelter. Ibid.,
pp. 217-223.

49. Recent work in the quarry work-
shops of the District of Columbia. Ibid.,
pp. 224-225.

50. Excavations in an ancient soapstone
quarry in the District of Columbia.
Ibid., pp. 321-330.

51. Collections of the Missouri Histori-
cal Society. Ibid., p. 384.

52. Report on the department of Ameri-
can aboriginal pottery in the United
States National Museum, 1888. Annual
Report of the United States National Mu-
seum, 1888, p. 105, Washington, 1890.

53. Report [of the Geologist-in-charge]
to the Director of the United States Geo-
logical Survey, 1888-1889. Tenth Annual
Report of the United States Geological Sur-
vey, 1888-89, Pt. 1, pp. 189-190, Wash-
ington, 1890.

V/' 54- On the evolution of ornament, an
American lesson. [Abstract.] Proceedings
of the Thirty-eighth Meeting of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of
Science, Toronto, August, 1889, p. 363,
Salem, 1890.

1891 55. Manufacture of stone arrow-points.
American Anthropologist, iv, pp. 49-58,
Washington, 1891.

56. Thruston tablet. Ibid., pp. 161-
165.

57. Aboriginal novaculite quarries in
Garland county, Arkansas. Ibid., pp.
313-316.

58. Report on the department of Ameri-
can prehistoric pottery in the United

States National Museum. Annual Re-
port of the United States National Mu-
seum, 1890, pp. 135-136, Washington,

1891.

59. Aboriginal stone implements of the
Potomac valley. [Abstract.] Proceed-
ings of the Thirty-ninth Meeting of the
American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, Indianapolis, August,
1890, p. 391, Salem, 1891.

1892 60. Report as delegate to Congres Geo-

logique International. American An-
thropologist, v, pp. 50-51, Washington,

1892.

61. Studies in aboriginal decorative art.

I. Stamped ornament of south Appala-
chian earthenware. Ibid., pp. 67-72.

610. Studies in aboriginal decorative art.

II. The rocking stamp or roulette in
pottery decoration. Ibid., pp. 149-152.

62. On the distribution of stone imple-
ments in the tide- water province. [Ab-
stract.] Proceedings of the Fortieth Meet-
ing of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science , Washington,
August, 1891, p. 366, Salem, 1892.

63. Aboriginal novaculite quarries in
Arkansas. [Abstract.] Ibid., pp. 366-367.

y 64. Evolution of the aesthetic. Pro-
ceedings of the Forty-first Meeting of the
American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, held at Rochester , August,
1892, pp. 239-255, Salem, 1892.

65. Sacred pipestone quarries of Minne-
sota and ancient copper mines of Lake
Superior. [Abstract.] Ibid., pp. 277-279.

66. Aboriginal quarries of flakable stone
and their bearing upon the question of
palaeolithic man. [Abstract.] Ibid., pp.
279-280.

67. On the so-called palaeolithic imple-
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69. Notes upon some geometric earth-
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70. Modern quarry refuse and the pal-
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71. Report on the department of Ameri-
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1893 74. [Review of] Pitt Rivers’ Excava-
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77. Modern quarry refuse and the pal-
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1894 83. An ancient quarry in Indian Terri-
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1904 128. Report on the department of an-
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132. [Letter as Chief of the Bureau of
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1907 141. Twenty-fourth annual report of
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144. [Articles on] Abrading implements,
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Fowke), Art, Axes (with Gerard Fowke),
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Batons, Bells, Bird-stones, Boat-stones
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1908 151. Report of the [Chief of the] Bureau
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154. The tomahawk. Ibid., pp. 264-276.-

1909 155. Report of the [Chief of the] Bureau
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156. Biographical memoir of Lewis
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162. [Articles on] Nampa image, Neo-
lithic age, Nephrite, Notched plates, No-
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Paleolithic implements, Pearls, Pecking
implements, Pectolite, Perforated stones,
Pestles, Picks, Pierced tablets, Pile
dwellings, Plummets, Polishing imple-
ments, Porphyry, Pottery, Problemati-
cal objects, Pyrite or Iron Pyrites,
Quartz, Quartzite, Receptacles, Rhyo-
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and carving, Serpentine, Shell, Shell-
work, Shell-heaps, Sienite, Silver, Sink-
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Sci. Amer. Sup pi., Vol. XLVII, Ho .1205,
p. 19313. Hew York, February 4, 1899 .

Report on the Anthropological Department Exhibition
at the Buffalo Exposition, 1901 .

Annual Report of the U. S. national .Museum,
1901, page 200.

On the origin of the Cross Symbol.

Proc. Am. Antiquarian Soc., Vol. XVIII. (H.S.)
Part I. 1906.

Como se Poblo America.

Trabaios del Cuarto Congreso Cientifieo.
(1° Pan -Americano) , Vol. XIV, Tomo II
(Santiago de Chile, 1911)
pp. 140-153, 5 diagrams.

American Archaeology.

The Hew International Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition.
Dodd, Mead & Co., Publishers, H. Y. 1914

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S. I. Miscellaneous Collections, Yol. 63, No. 8,
pp. 45-4.7, 2 illustrations.

(Washington, D. C., 1914)

■The Feather Serpent Column of Chichen Itza,
Art and Archaeology, Yol. I, No. 2, p. 83,
1 illustration. Washington, D. C., 1914

installation of the W. A. Claris: Collection in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art.11

Art and Archaeology, April 1928, pages
165-180. 25 illustrations.

Annual Report on the National Gallery of Art
including the Freer Gallery of Art.

For the Year Ending June 30, 1928.

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W. H. HOLMES

Excavations in Cranborne Chase , near Rushmore, on the

borders of Dorset and Wilts, 1880-1888, by Lieutenant
General Pitt Rivers, Vol. II, Printed privately, 1888.

Amer. Anthropologist, Vol. II, No. 2, p. 172.
Washington, April, 1889.

Introduction to the Study of North American Archaeology.
By. Prof. Cyrus Thomas. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke
Co., 1898. 8°, XIV, 391 pp, 108 illustrations.

Amer. Anthropologist (n. s.), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp .
176-178. New York, January, 1899.

Hawaiian Feather Work. By William T. Brigham. Memoirs of
the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology
and Natural History, Vol. 1, No, 1. Honolulu:, 1899.

4°, 81-11 pp., 15 pis., '115 figs.

Amer. Anthropologist (n. s.), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 155-
159. New York, January, 1900.

Memoirs of Exploration in the Basin of the Mississippi. Vol.
V. Kakabikansing . By. J. V. Brower, with a contributed
section by N. H. Winchell., St. Paul, Minn., 1902.

126 pp., 26 plates, 13 figs., 5 maps.

Amer. Anthropologist , (n. s.), Vol. 4, No, 3, pp, 517-520,
New York, July-Sept., 1902.

The American Nation: A History. Vol. II. Basis of American
History, 1500-1900. By Livingston Farrand, A. M. , M. D, ,
Professor of Anthropology , Columbia University. New York
and London: Harper Brothers. 1904. 8°, 303 pages, 1 plate,
10 maps.

Amer. Anthropologist (n. s.), Vol. 7, No, 1, pp. 114-117,
January -Mar ch , 1905.

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Archaeological
Columbus, Ohio

Village Sites in Ohio. By William C.
Curator and Librarian, Ohio State
and Historical Society; Curator of the
Museum, Ohio State University. Vol. 1,
Press of Fred J. Heer, 1907.

Amer. Anthropologist (n. s.), Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.
614-618, Lancaster, Pa., July-Sept., 1907.

Moundville Revisited. Crystal River Revisited. Mounds of
the Lower Chattahoochee and Lower Flint Rivers. Notes
on the Ten Thousand Islands, Florida. By Clarence B.

Moore. Reprinted from the Journal of' the Academy of »t)

Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. XIII. 4°, IV, \qq

337-476 pp., illustrated.

Amer. Anthropologist (n. s.), Vol. 9, No. 4, pp.

741-742, Lancaster, Pa., October-December , 1907.

Contributions to South American Archeology. The George ion.

G. Heye Expedition. The Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador.

A Preliminary Report. By Marshall H. Saville, Loubat
Professor of American Archeology, Columbia University.

New York: 1907. 4°, 135 pp . , 55 pis., 9 figs. in

Amer. Anthropologist (n. s.), Vol. 10, No. 1,‘ pp.

122-128. Lancaster, Pa., January -March, 1908.

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Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art*
(Abstract ) Ibid. pp. 112-114. 1886.

Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art.
Ibid., pp. 437-465. 1886.

A Study of the Textile Art in its Relation to the Develop-
ment of Form and Ornament.

Ibid., pp. 189-252. 1888.

On the Evolution of Ornament - An American Lesson.

Ibid., pp. 137-146. 1890.

On the Evolution of Ornament, An American Lesson, (abstract)
Proceedings of the Thirty-eighth Meeting of the American
Association for the A-dvancement of Science, Toronto,
August, 1889, p. 363, Salem, 1890.

Studies in Aboriginal Decorative Art.

I. Stamped Ornament of South Appalachian Earthenware.
Ibid., pp. 67-72, 1892.

II. The Rocking Stamp or Roulette in Pottery Decoration.

Ibid., pp. 149-152. 1892.

Evolution of the Aesthetic.

Proceedings of the Forty-first Meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, held at
Rochester, August, 1892, pp. 239-255, ' Salem , 1892.

Caribbean Influence in the Prehistoric Art of Southern States.
American Anthropologist, VII, pp. 71-79, Washington, 1894.

Decorative Art of the Aborigines of Northern America.

Anthropological Papers Written in Honor of Franz Boas,
pp. 179-188, Hew York, 1906.

On the Origin of the Cross Symbol.

Proc.. Am. Antiquarian Soc., Vol. XVIII (N.S.) Pt.I,1906.

The Feather Serpent Column of Chichen Itza.

Art and Archaeology, Vol. I, Ho. 2, p. 83.

1 illustration. Washington, D. C. 1914.

Masterpieces of Aboriginal American Art.

I. Stucco Work. Art and Archaeology I, pp. 1-12, 1914.

Masterpieces of Aboriginal American Art.

II. Mosaic Work, Minor Examples. Ibid., pp. 91-102, 1915.

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III. Mosaic Work, Major Examples.

Ibid., pp. .243-255, 1915.

Masterpieces of Aboriginal Aberican Art.

IV. Sculpture in the Round.

Ibid., pp. 71-85. 1916.

Masterpieces of Aboriginal American Art.

V. The Great Dragon of Quirigua, Part I.

Art and Archaeology, IV, No. 6, pp. 269-278. 1916.

Masterpieces of Aboriginal American Art.

V. The Great Dragon of Quirigua, Part II.

Art and Archaeology, 1916.

A Quirigua Mystery.

Ibid., pp. 342-344. 1916.

Masterpieces of Aboriginal American Art.

VI. Work of the Goldsmith.

Art and Archaeology, VIII, Do. 6, pp. 348-360. 1919.

Rational Gallery of Art, Catalogue of Collections, Ro.l, 1922.

The Story of the Rational Gallery of Art.

Art and Archaeology, Vol. XV, Ro. 6, June 1923,

Shall America Have a Rational Gallery of Art?

American Magazine of Art, Vol .XIV, July, 1923.

The Ward Collection of African Bronzes.

Art 'and Archaeology, Vol. XVIII, Ho. 3, Sept. 1924.

Rational Gallery of Art, Catalogue of Collections, No. 2, 1926.

Plea for a Rational Gallery of Art.

Art and Archaeology, Vol. XXXIII, No .2, pp. 50-69, 1927.

The Rational Gallery and the Scope and Functions of an
Art Museum.

Topical Survey of the Government. The U. S. Daily, 1927,

The Rational Gallery of Art.

United States Daily, July 7, 1927.

Installation of the W. A. Clark Collection in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art.

Art and Archaeology, April 1928, pp. 165-180. 25 illus.

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For the Year Ending June 30, 1921.

Report on the Rational Gallery of Art, including the
Freer Gallery of Art.

For the Year Ending June 30, 1922.

Annual Report on the Rational Gallery of Art, including
the Freer Gallery of Art.

For the Year Ending June 30, 1923.

Annual Report on the Rational Gallery of Art, including
the Freer Gallery of Art.

For the Year Ending June 30, 1924

Annual Report on the Rational Gallery of Art, including
the Freer Gallery of Art.

For the Year Ending June 30, 1925.

Annual Report on the Rational Gallery of Art, including
the Freer Gallery of Art.

For the year Ending June 30, 1926.

Annual Report on the Rational Gallery of Art, including
the Freer Gallery of Art .

For the year Ending June 30, 1927.

Annual Report on the Rational Gallery of Art, including
the Freer Gallery of Art.

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Smithsonian Institution, 1872-1927

Annual Reports,

U. 3. Geological Survey of the
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Annual Reports,

Bureau of American Ethnology, 1879-1927.

Annual Reports,

U. S. Geological Survey, 1880-1889.

Annual Reports,

U . S . Nat i onal Mus eum , 1875-1920,

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should be added introductory matter to the annual reports of
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BY W. H. HOLMES

LIST OF VOLUMES

Volume I. Brief Biography, Positions Held, Loubat Prizes,
Medals, etc., Societies and Clubs, Bibliography.

II. Explorations, Episodes and Adventures,

Expositions and Congresses.

III. Part I, Yellowstone Explorations, 1872.

Part II, Yellowstone Explorations, 1878.

IV. Part I. Colorado Explorations, 1873, 74, 75, 76 & 87.
Part II. The Cliff Dwellers.

V. Europe 1879-80; Grand Canyon of the Colorado;

Explorations in Mexico with Jackson and the Chains;
Colorado with Powell and Langley, 1887.

VI. Aboriginal Bowlder Quarries, Piney Branch, D. C.,
Soapstone Quarries, Paint Mines, and Lay Figure
Groups.

VII. The Chicago Venture, University Exposition, Field
Museum, Yucatan, Return to Washington, 1892-97.

VIII. Cuba with Powell; Jamaica with Langley; Mexico with
Gilbert and Dutton; California with McGee; Physical
Anthropology, Hrdlicka, Current Work 1900.

IX. Chief Period, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1910;
Visits to Stutgart and Chile 1908.

X. Transfer to the Museum June 10, 1910, the Guatemalian
Trip, Powell Monuments, Seventieth Birthday Celebration,
1920.

XI. Director of the National Gallery of Art, 1920-1931.

XII. The Freer Gallery of Art.

National

XIII® Portraits, Smithsonian Institution.

XIV. Portraits, Bureau of American Ethnology.
Gallery of Art, and Miscellaneous.

XV. Masterpieces of Aboriginal American Art.

XVI. Various Articles on Art and the Art Gallery.

XVII. Personal.

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XX. Personal

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Cabana de Hist or ia, and reply.

Acknowledgement of donation to
Dublin.

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Honorable Profesor:

La Sociedad Cubans de Historia Natural
"Felipe Poey", a propuesta de su Secci6n de Antropologla
por unanimidad lo ha nombrado a ud, SOCIO HONORARIO; y le
ha dicernido ese titulo en atencidn a los antecedentes
que en Ud. concur ren de "Arqueologo de fama mundial, que
fu6 durante muchos ahos Jefe del Hurfeiu Etnoldgico Ame-
ricano, ostrechamente unido a la c&Lebre Xnstituci6n Smi-
theonian&,y despues Conservador Jefe de toda la 3ecci6n
Antropologica del Museo Wacional; y ha prestado re$e¥an-
tes servicios a la ciencia que trata del horobre del nue-
vo mundo, con vuestras multiples y valioeas producciones
intelectuales y la admirable organi2aci6n que ha impreso
al gran Museo, con su larga y no interrump id a labor coro-
ndda pr el ejcito mas evidente"

Con gran satisfaccidn comunico a Ud.
el acuerdo de la Sociedad Poey y sus mejores deseos por
su bienestar. Y con la m&s respetuosa consideraci5n, que-
da de Ud. muy atentamente.

Dr, Carlos

I have particular pleasure in acknowledging
receipt of your communication of May 30 announcing
my election to honorary membership in the Sociedad
Cubana de Historia. It is most gratifying to be
recognized by your Society in having
although I must tell you that officially I am a
deserter of that great field of research and am
devoting the remains of my years to art.

With high appreciation of the honor conferred
upon me by my neighbors of the fascinating island
of Cuba , I am

Very truly yours ,

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ALL CORRESPONDENCE
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PRESIDING OFFICER

EX-OFFICIO

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM .
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK.
ASTROPHYSICAL G B S F. R VATO RY .

1906,

I certify that Mr, William H. Holmes, Chief of
the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Honorary Curator
of the Division of Prehistoric Archaeology in the United
States National Museum, has "been designated as the rep-
re sent ative of the Smithsonian Institution, the United
States National Museum and the Bureau of American Eth-
nology at the Fifteenth International Congress of
Americanists, to he held in Quebec, from September 10th

to 15th, 1906,

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TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION FOR IRELAND.

SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUM, DUBLIN.

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his thanks for the undermentioned Donation to the

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