scientific friends and associates, he was presented with a 
silver loving cup on which the following inscription is engraved: 
Wash ingt on , D . C . 
May 16th, 1894. 
Presented to William Henry Holmes hy his 
Associates in the Smithsonian Institution 
and the United States Geological Survey 
as a token of their esteenv 
During the winter of 1894-95 an event of exceptional 
importance in Holmes 1 career occurred. This was an exploring 
expedition to ducat an with Mr. Allison V*. Armour of Chicago in 
his good yacht I tuna. The chief result of this trip was the 
publication hy the Pield Museum of a volume of 538 pages on the 
ancient ruins of Yucatan and Central America with numerous Illus- 
trations of the remarkable ruined buildings and works of sculpture 
tff) iLu 
and with maps, ground plans^and panoramic views of the cities.* 
In 1897 he returned to Washington to become Head Curator 
of the Department of Anthropology in the national Museum, this 
department including besides ethnology and archeology, the collec- 
tions of technology , history and art. In 1900 he spent the 
montns of Peoruary ano. march with Major Powell studying the anti- 
quities of the Island of Cuba, and later joined Secretary S. P. 
Langley in Jamaica assisting in the study of the flight of the 
^parts? l0glGal Stu(iies the Ancient Ruins of Mexico^ 
