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n In many respects this monograph by Professor Holmes may be re¬ 
garded as a model in method and a standard in results; and the succinct 
chapters and well-chosen illustrations speak for themselves • Yet there 
are certain features of the work summarised in the paper which are 
worthy of special note.. 
The qualifications of investigators in demonomy are, therefore, 
determined by three factors, vis, (1) natural aptitude, (£) training 
in other lines of scientific work, and (3) experience and success in 
demotic research. All of these factors are combined in Professor 
Holmes* equipment. Primarily an artist of such genius and deftness 
as to see a brilliant career before him, his taste for scientific 
studies led him first into geology, where again he was notably 
successful, and later into archeology, in which, from the first, he 
displayed ©special aptitude; his training in geologic work, facilit¬ 
ated as it was by the exact perception and manual dexterity acquired 
in art work, served to render him familiar with approved scientific 
methods; and when, in the fullness of his vigor, he entered the field 
of archeology, his work was eminently successful from the outset. 
His aroheologic researches had already extended over some years when, 
in 1889, he undertook the systematic study of the Potomac-Chesapeake 
region. Kis skill and success are attested by the reputation 
achieved in his favorite field; even before the completion of the 
accompanying memoir he was chosen as the head of the department of 
anthropology in the Field Columbian Museum, and tendered a professor¬ 
ship in Chicago University. His standing and qualifications may be 
characterised the more freely because he is no longer connected with 
the Bureau. 
Something of the comprehensive arid painstaking methods pursued 
in the work may be gleaned from Professor Holmes* memoir; yet the 
breadth and soundness of his foundation are hardly suggested by the 
details of the superstructure. As a geologist on the Hayden Survey 
of the Territories and later on the United States Geological Survey, 
he had occasion to traverse the v/estern plains, the Hooky Mountain 
region, and the plateau country, nearly all the way from the Canadian 
boundary on the north to the Mexican frontier on the south, and this 
in early days while yet the Indians were numerous and retained their 
aboriginal characteristics. Accordingly he had many opportunities 
for ethnologic observation, and was led by previous training to give 
special attention to the manual arts of the tribesmen; indeed, it 
was chiefly his contact with the Indians in the course of his geo¬ 
logic work that induced him to take up systematic studies of aboriginal 
