BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
1894 
My work in the Bureau of Ethnology for the year 1895 
an4 the first six months of 1894 was well up to date when I was 
induced to resign from the Bureau and accept the curatorship 
of anthropology in the Pi eld Columbian Museum, Chicago. Two 
important papers were practically ready for publication. One 
of these relates to the stone art of the aborigines as exem¬ 
plified by the collections made in the tide water region adjacent 
to Chesapeake Bay; the second to the fictile art as exemplified 
in the collections from the eastern United States, especially 
from the mounds. While both papers were substantially complete 
as to the letter press, they were incomplete as to illustra¬ 
tions, but this work was in the hands of Mr. De Lancey Gill 
who has had charge of the illustration work of the Bureau for 
many years. 
In the Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 
1894 reference was made to my resignation in the following terms: 
"The Director notes with regret that Professor W. H. Holmes 
who has for some years been in charge of the archeological 
work of the Bureau has severed his connection with the 
Bureau in order to accept an important position in the 
Pield Columbian Museum, Chicago." 
