FAREWELL BANQUET TO W. H. HOLMES 
Mr. Holmes 1 engagement by the Field Columbian 
Museum, Chicago, as curator of the department of Anthro- 
pology, began May 1, 1894.* A preliminary visit to 
Chicago was made May 4, extending to May 9. A week was 
then spent in Washington closing up his affairs in the 
Bureau of American Ethnology, where he was at the head of 
archaeological research and in the National Museum, where 
he was curator of American Antiquities. 
On Wednesday night, May 16, a farewell banquet 
was given him at Willard Hall, which proved an enjoyable 
affair and most gratifying to him. F. H. Cushing was Toast- 
master, and the speakers were 0. Brown Goode, F. C. Menden- 
hall, E. H. Miller, Senor Zeballos , David T. Day, William E. 
Curtis, Cyrus Adler, Henry Gannett, Thomas Wilson, J. D. 
McGuire, W. J. McGee, C. D. Walcott, and Otis T. Mason. 
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professor Goode responded to the "Scientific Insti- 
tutions of Washington," speaking of the early days of 
"Holmes 1 association with the Institution when, in 1872, only 
a half dozen of those present here were associated in scienti- 
fic work." He dwelt upon Holmes 1 work in connection with the 
Mr. Holmes was induced to accept the head curator ship in 
the new Columbian Museum by Professors T. C. Chamberlain and 
R. D. Salisbury of the University of Chicago, in which insti- 
tution he was air eady v non-r esid ent professor of Anthropic 
Geology. 
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