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Our Honoured Guest, the Toastmaster, and Gentlemen: 
I am fortunate in being permitted to join you in 
this tribute to my long time associate and friend, to one of 
the most faithful and untiring workers in the field of seienee. 
I believe in this kind of recognition of a man's achievements, 
especially if he be a pioneer in fields that until within the 
past two or three decades have been neglected by the scientific 
world. The Japanese, deft, clever and resourceful, have a 
most beautiful thought in connection with the recognition of a 
man's attainments. It runs thus: "Rather would I hold the 
bouguet of flowers in my hand and know their odor than be un- 
conscious of their presence as they lie upon my breast." And. 
so we come to pay tribute while he lives to one who has achieved 
fame in more than one field of research. 
There are perhaps others here better qualified to 
speak of Professor Holmes as an anthropologist, but I want to 
speak of the personal side of our guest, to say that in many 
ways I have known him as long, and possibly as well, as anyone 
present tonight. My acquaintance and friendship began in the 
late seventies, and in the early eighties I beeame his assistant 
in the Geological Survey and Bureau of Ethnology. I have not 
been able to get very far away from him since that time. He 
was @ young man then, slight of build, and, I may say, handsome, 
but not quite so distinguished looking as we see him tonight. 
He had a nervous strength and an endurance far beyond that of 
the ordinary man of his weight, and this has served him weli in 
the years of arduous mental and physical labor that have follow- 
ed. Just what his ambitions were in those early days he al one 
can tell us, but with strong instincts for both science and art 
he succeeded in combining the two in a way that has given him 
the place he occupies in anthropology today. 
With the waning of lithography as a process of repro- 
duction and in conjunction with his scientific studies he be- 
came a marvellous draftsman on paper and wood. He was one of 
the fathers of the beautiful and now lost art of wood engraving. 
In the portrayal of paleontological subjects his work has never 
been surpassed. He lent his skill to the archeologist and 
ethnologist, and Dr. Hayden found in him at once a geologist, 
a topographer and an artist. Thirty years ago I passed over 
some of the ground described by him while on the preliminary 
surveys of the Yellowstone country. It seemed to me that his 
brief paper written for Dr. Hayden covered the subject fully 
and in my estimation it stands today the best reconnaissance 
paper produced by any geologist. At this time I can only 
refer to his wonderful panoramas of the Rocky Mountains, and 
