W. H. H. 
Extracts from the 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
1901 
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"Summary of the Operations of the Year." 
"Mr. W. H. Holmes, under the auspices of the Bureau 
of American Ethnology, and in company with Dr. W. A. Phillips, 
of the Field Columbian Museum, made a detailed examination 
of the extensive and important flint quarries in the vicinity 
of Mill Creek, Union County, Illinois, where prehistoric 
implements occur in great abundance*" (Page 22) 
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"In the Department of Anthropology the head curator, 
Mr. Holmes, has completed a report based on his own 
ethnological and archaeological observations in the far 
West during several years past; he has also nearly f inished 
the manuscript and illustrations for a large work on the 
ancient pottery of the United States, begun some time ago, 
and has commenced an exhaustive report on the industries 
of mining and quarrying among the native tribes." (Page 26) 
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