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!A UNIVERSITY 
Y OF NEW YORK 
PRESIDENT’S ROOM June 27, 1898 . 
jar Sir: 
I have the honor to hand you herewith a copy of the report 
' the Committee of Award on the Loubat Prizes for the quinquennial 
jriod ending in June, 1898, from which you will perceive that the 
Lrst prize has been awarded to you for your treatise entitled 
Stone Implements of the Potomac -Chesapeake Tide Y/ater Provinces." 
As your treatise was formally submitted to the Committee 
jr examination, I presume I may take it for granted that you are 
’©pared to comply with the conditions attached to the acceptance of 
le prize, expressed in Regulation Ho. 7 of the Regulations governing 
I© award herewith enclosed. Upon receiving from you such an assur- 
ace, I shall be glad to ask the Treasurer of the University to 
ransmit to you his check for $1000. 
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I trust you will permit^me - to express my personal congratu- 
at ions upon yourT success' in this competition. Ho effort is spared 
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7 the University to make it sure that a book so crowned is worthy 
f the high distinction conferred upon it. 
Respectfully, 
f) 
HdA. 
President . 
r. William Henry Holmes, 
Curator of the Department of Anthropology, 
national Museum, 
Washington, D. c. 
