the scientific value of the work, but also the importance of 
the subject treated, the method of investigation pursued by 
the author and the artistic and literary excellence of the 
presentation. 
The monographs that were formally submitted were the 
productions of eight; different authors. Of these the com- 
mittee selected as being the most meritorious and as fully 
complying with the conditions prescribed for the competi- 
tion the treatise offered by Mr. William Henry Holmes of 
Washington, the title of whose treatise was "Stone Implements 
of the Potomac -Chesapeake Tidewater Provinces." In recommendtgg 
the award of the first prise of $1,000 to Mr. Holmes, the 
committee says: 
"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 previous 
studies of actual aboriginal handiwork. 
and thus establishing 
a basis for 
classification of the stone art of the western 
hemisphere. It- is the re 
numerous e xpe r ime nt s and 
supplied with a wealth, of 
most exceptional interest 
The second prize of 
suit of many years of personal study, 
close typological analysis, and is 
illustrative material that gives it 
and value," 
$400 was awarded to Dr. Prang Boas of 
t he Me- trupol iba n 
Mus eum 
of Natural History of Hew York, the 
subject of whose monograph 'was : "The 
Social 
0 r ga n i z a t i o n 
md 
Secret Societies of the Hwakiutl Indians, 
Ho no r ab 1 e me n t io n 
