J A\M tz S 
"HOMES TOWER" JOSHED BY G'i WHARTON JAMES 
Grand 'Canyon of the Colorado 
"To the north and west of Shiva Temple is a massive square 
rock-pile which I have named Holmes Tower, after that most gen- 
ial and accomplished scientist in so many branches, Mr. W. H. 
Holmes. Geology not only owes him much for his charming draw- 
ings, which embellish Captain Dutton* s canyon report, but arch- 
eology and ethnology are his great debtors, as a cursory survey 
of the reports of the Bureau of Ethnology will reveal. And it 
seems most appropriate that one of the great canyon monuments, 
which stood almost under his eyes as he sat on Point Sublime 
making his inimitable drawings, should receive his name. 
West of Confucius Temple is another great butte which is 
named Becker Butte, and between this and Holmes Tower, at the 
western extension of Shiva Temple, is Russell Butte, so named 
after the geologist who traced the beaches of the prehistoric 
Lake Lahontan. Beyond Russel Butte, and almost due west of 
Becker, is a square red tower named Gannet Tower, after the 
man whose topographical work has made world-famed the maps of 
the United States Geological Survey.” 
In and Around the Grand Canyon , by George Wharton James, 
(The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona) l f 'i ^ 
Boston. Little, Brown, and Company, MDCCCCVII, page 92. 
