EXPLORATION OF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK BY THE 
U. S. GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES, 1878. 
The entire year 1877 and the first six months of f 78 
were devoted largely to the completion for publication and record 
of the work of the proceeding field seasons. My life in Wash- 
ington at this period, full of interest scientifically and 
artistically and seasoned with many trivialities, r is recorded 
me and my friends in years to come . Among the features of the 
spring season was a two weeks visit to Avoca, North Carolina, 
where I enjoyed the hospitality of the U 4 s. Fish Commission, 
my old friend James W. Milner in charge, and carried on archeologi- 
cal studies on neighboring sites of Indian occupation. 
*** On the first day of July 1878, I set out to join our 
field party at Cheyenne , Wyomin g, (see diary) hound .for the 
Yellowstone Park, which region I had visited as artist of the 
Survey in 1872* The present year as Geologist to the Survey, 
I was associated closely with Hr. Hayden, Director of the Survey, 
during a large part of the season T s operations. 
me personally was the naming by Chief Topographer Henry Gannett, 
with the approval of Dr. Hayden, of a prominent mountain of the 
Gallatin Range, Mount Holmes, which will serve to perpetuate a 
DIARY OF W. H. HOLMES, GEOLOGIST 
in the accompanying diary, fragments 'which may be of interest to 
A feature of the year T s work of particular interest to 
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