Besides carefully scanning the works received in 
competition, the committee also examined such other 
works relating to American archaeology as have been pub- 
lished in the English language during the last three 
years. In the consideration of the monographs the 
committee took into account not only the scientific 
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value of the work, but also the importance of the sub- 
ject treated, the method of investigat ion 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 selected as being the 
most meritorious and as fully complying with the conditions 
prescribed for the competition 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 recommending the award of the 
first prize of $1,000 to Mr. Holmes, the committee says: 
"This volume may be held to mark an epoch in Ameri- 
can 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 the classification of the stone 
art of the western hemisphere. 
It is the result of 
