HONORS FOR HOLMES. 
Well-Known Scientist of Chicago 
Is Called to Washington. 
HAS EARNED HIS PREFERMENT. 
Won a Place in Geologic and Amtliroiio- 
log-ical Research Recognized 
Throughout the World. 
Professor W. H. Holmes, curator of the 
department of anthropology in the Field Co- 
lumbian Museum and professor of anthropic 
geology in the University of Chicago, has 1 
been summoned to Washington and assigned 
to one of the highest positions which the 
government can give a scientist. 
At the Field museum the well-known 
scientist had in his care one of the largest 
collections illustrative of the history of 
man’s progress in the arts of life in. exist- 
ence, hut in his new position he will be able 
to arrange and classify untold riches in 
these lines. Not content with making him 
head of either the national museum or t.'he 
Smithsonian Institution, the government 
has made a new office for him by combining- 
all the vast collections in the departments 
of anthropology and ethnology in the two 
great institutions under his care. Not only 
is this a great opportunity for work, but it is 
a great and unexpected honor to the Chi- 
cago man. 
For years ^hese two institutions have been 
receiving and storing in their halls vast 
quantities of valuable material from every 
corner of the country. Expeditions to all 
known cites in this land and South America 
have brought back discoveries which have 
been only partly classified. Collectors in the 
west and throughout the Indian reservations 
have been gathering thousands of objects 
illustrative of the development of the arts 
among the Indians and sending them to the 
National Museum or the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution. From year to year the latter and the 
bureau of ethnology have issued costly ana 
valua ble publications descriptive of the work 
of the several departments. These publica- 
tions have for many years been enriched by 
the work of Professor Holmes and beautified 
by his illustrations. 
Recognised by Government. 
As far back as 1872 the value of his services 
w r as recognized by the government,' and he 
was sent west with the party which pre- 
pared the survey of the territories. This 
work consumed eight years and brought 
Professor Holmes immediately into promi- 
nence. He was at that time a geologist pure 
and simple, and was untiring in his explora- 
tions and his careful delineation of this al- 
most unknown region. His early sketches of 
the Grand Canon are to be found in the 
works on geology in almost every language. 
He was the first to give scientific value to his 
work as an artist, and he now stands at the 
head of the modern school of artist-scientists. 
From this time he continued his artistic la- 
bors with scrupulous care, sketching and 
painting in one field and another, but always 
With painstaking fidelity and scientific ac- 
curacy'. Of this branch of his work Head 
Professor Chamberlain of the department of 
geology said to-day: 
“He is undoubtely the best geologic 
artist of this or any other time. He is un- 
doubtedly without any superior/although 
he has many admiring imitators.” 
This is also the opinion of Sir Archibald 
Giekie, which he expresses in the introduc- 
tion to the last edition of his well-known 
textbook. 
