HfEAClfS FROM THE SHXfHSOEIAH REFORM -FOR 1878 
HEMflia TO THE WORK OF W* H. HOLMES Oil TIIE HAXDBH SURVEY FOR 1878. 
"Mr. f. H, Holmes acted as geologist to the second division* 
The first month of the season he was with the fourth division* which 
proceeded from Feint of Kochs Station northward, along the west side 
of the Wind River Mountains, and up the Snake River Valley to the 
Yellowstone Park , where he joined the second division* In the mean 
time he was engaged in making sketches, panoramic views, and geologi- 
oal sections of the intermediate country, all of which will prove of 
the highest importance in illustrating the geological structure of 
this most interesting and complicated region." {Page 66) 
"Mr, f. II* Holmes was detailed as geologist of this division, 
while to Dr. A, 0* Peal e was intrusted the study of the hot springs 
and geysers, Hr* Garnett undertaking the secondary triangulation and 
topography of the park, and his assistant, Mr* J. E. Mushhaoh, the 
detailed survey of the geyser has ins and other groups of springs* 
"The party left Granger Station, Wyo», on July 28 ; drove up 
Green River to the head of the basing thence down the rugged defile of 
Hobaek ? s River to the Snake, and up the Snake to its forks at the 
south boundary of the Yellowstone Park. 
"Turning westward at this point, they spent a few days in 
surveying Fall River and its affluents, then returned to the Shoshone 
Geyser Basin at the west end of Shoshone Lake* 
Here the party was 
