"Mr. William H. Holmes, chief of the Bureau of 
American Ethnology, Besides visiting some of the principal 
European Museums in behalf of the national Museum, attended 
the Fourteenth International Congress of Americanists at 
Stuttgart, Germany, from August 18 to S3, 1904, as the 
representative of the Museum and Institution and of the 
Government. Other official American delegates were the 
Hue de loubat, a patron of American archeological research.; 
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Dr. Paul Haupt, of the national Museum and Johns Hopkins 
University; Dr. Franz Boas, of the American Museum of natural 
History, and Rev. C. W. Currier, of the Catholic University 
of America. A number of papers were read dealing with 
questions of American history, ethnology and archeology. 
Mr. Holmes presided at a meeting of the Congress on August 
20, and on the same day delivered an address on "Contribu- 
tions of American Archeology to the Science of Man.” 
Annual Report, U. S. national Museum, 1905, page 61. 
