due to changes in the personnel of the Museum, were not being 
utilized as intended* Holmes succeeded in having the collection 
transferred to the Hat ional Museum 1 s department of anthropology, 
which was under his charge, and with the result, due to the tire- 
less enterprise of Hr. Hrdlicka that in less than a score of years 
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the collection has "been increased to ajo, 000 crania, beside a great 
body of related materials. A noteworthy feature of this and 
previous periods was the installation in the Museum of life-size 
groups in plaster of paris of Indians engaged in their various in- 
teresting activities. These were designed by Holmes and modelled 
in clay by II. S. J. Dunbar, the sculptor. ; V^L.EL -.1 ^ I 
In more recent years, 1906-1920, the art collections 
increased with gratifying rapidity. The valuation of a few 
thousand dollars when Holmes took charge, had by gift and bequest 
increased in 1920 to an estimated value of ten millions. The 
rapid growth was largely due to the fact that the new Museum build- 
ing, completed in 1910, afforded attractive, though unfortunately 
limited, wall spaces for the display of art works. 
In 1920 another important change took place in Holmes T 
activities and responsibilities. The art collections of the In- 
stitution having grown., in importance as thus noted, the Gallery 
was divorced from the Museum and he was named Director a position 
which he still holds at the beginning of 1928, fifty-seven years 
after his first visit to the Smithsonian Institution. f 
Strangely enough Holmes has, among various honors, the 
unique distinction of having two important mountains named after 
nim, one In the lellowstone national Park, so named by the Director 
of the Survey of the Territories in recognition of his geological 
