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LOUBAT QUINQUENNIAL PRIZES FOR 1898 
The Hon. Seth Low, LL.D., 
President of Columbia University. 
Sir: The undersigned, a Committee appointed in 1895 to examine and 
report upon the various monographs submitted in competition for the Loubat 
Prizes to be awarded in 1898, beg leave to report that they have carefully con- 
sidered the different works received, and have also, in accordance with the rules 
governing the competition, examined such other works relating to American 
Archaeology as have been published in the English language during the three 
years ending with the first day of April, 1898. In their consideration of these 
monographs the Committee have taken into account not only the scientific value 
of the work but also the importance of the subjects treated, the methods of 
investigation pursued by the authors, and the artistic and literary excellence 
of the presentation. 
The monographs that were formally submitted for examination were the 
productions of eight different authors. Of these the Committee have selected, 
as being the most meritorious and as most fully complying with the conditions 
prescribed for the competition, the treatise offered by Mr. William Henry 
Holmes, Curator of the Department of Anthropology in the National Museum 
at Washington. The title of this treatise is, Stone Implements of the Potomac- 
Chesapeake Tide-Water Provinces. 
This volume may be held to mark an epoch in American archaeological 
research, by interpreting the remarkably abundant artifacts of a typical region 
in the light of precious studies of actual aboriginal handiwork, and thus 
establishing a basis for the classification of the stone art -of the entire Western 
Hemisphere. It is the result of many years of personal study, numerous 
experiments, and close typological analysis, and is supplied with a wealth of 
illustrative material that gives it most exceptional interest and value. The 
Committee, therefore, recommend that the first prize of $1,000 be awarded to 
Mr. William Henry Holmes. r 
The elaborate monograph entitled, The Social Organization and Secret 
Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians , by Dr. Franz Boas of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Natural History of New York City, is a remarkably complete 
descriptive and analytic treatise setting forth the characteristics of a well- 
