HOLMES TOWER 
Tt To the north and west of Shiva Temple is a massive 
square rock-pile which I have named Holmes Tower, after 
that most genial and accomplished scientist in so many 
branches, Mr* W. H. Holmes* Geology not only owes him 
much for his charming drawings, which embellish Captain 
Button 1 s canyon report, but archeology and ethnology are 
his great debtors, as a cursory survey of the reports of 
the Bureau of Ethnology will reveal. And it seems most 
appropriate that one of the great canyon monuments, which 
stood almost under his eyes as he sat on Point Sublime 
making his inimitable drawings, should receive his name. 
"West of Confucius Temple is another great butte which 
is named Becker Butte, and between this and Holmes Tower, 
at the western extension of Shiva Temple, is Russell Butte, 
so named after the geologist who traced the beaches of the 
prehistoric Lake Lahontan. Beyond Russell Butte, and al- 
most due west of Becker, is a square red tower named Gannet 
Tower, after the man whose topographical work has made 
world-famed the maps of the United States Geological Survey. 
( "In and Around the Grand Canyon, tT by George Wharton James, 
p. 92. (The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in 
Arizona. ) 
