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MR. HOLLIES * HONORS 
WASHI HGTOH SCIENTIST RECEIVES M IMPORTANT PRIZE . 
<£ a-tjkL. 
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 captured by Mr, William Henry Holmes of 
Washington, Head Curator of Anthropology, at the United 
States national Museum, and formerly Curator of the De- 
partment of Ethnology in the Field Columbian Museum at 
Chicago . 
le Due de loubat is American born, of French de- 
scend inheriting his title from his father. He is 
immensely wealthy, and is a cosmopolitan, spending a 
greater portion of his time, however, in Hew York City. 
He recently gave $1,000,000 to Columbian College in that 
city, aside from founding the prizes for anthropological 
works. The award of these prizes is the first that has 
been made, and the importance of the works submitted in 
competition cannot be overestimated. Judges are appoint- 
ed for each five-year period. The committee of fudges 
which has ^ust completed its services was composed of 
Professor H. T. Peck of Columbia College, Dr. Daniel G. 
Brinton and Professor W. J. McGee of the Bureau of Eth- 
nology in this city. 
