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[Reprinted from the AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan.—March, 1917.] 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES 
Mr. Hoitmes’ SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
On Friday evening, December 1, a dinner was given at the Lafayette 
Hotel, Washington, D. C., to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Mr. 
William H. Holmes, head curator of anthropology at the U. S. National 
Museum. On this occasion he was made the recipient of a volume of 
anthropological essays written for the occasion by forty-four American 
anthropologists. The work, which is a royal octavo, comprising 507 
pages, 137 photogravure plates, and numerous text figures, is a model of 
the printers’ and engravers’ arts, and its publication in an edition of 200 
copies was made possible by friends and colaborers of Mr. Holmes in the 
field of anthropology. The editorial work was performed by Mr. F. W. 
Hodge, ethnologist-in-charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and 
the papers include the following: Pomo Buildings, by S. A. Barrett; 
Representative Art of Primitive People, by Franz Boas; Certain Simi- 
larities in Amulets from the Northern Antilles, by Theodoor de Booy; 
Aboriginal Forms of Burial in Eastern United States, by David I. Bush- 
nell, Jr.; Parallels in the Cosmogonies of the Old World and the New, by 
I. M. Casanowicz; Samoan Kava Custom, by William Churchill; Music in 
Its Relation to the Religious Thought of the Teton Sioux, by Frances 
Densmore;:The Swan-Maiden Theme in the Oceanic Area, by Roland 
B. Dixon; Some South American Petroglyphs, by William Curtis Farabee; 
The Cliff-ruins in Fewkes Cafion, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, 
by Jesse Walter Fewkes; A Birthday Wish from Native America, by 
Alice C. Fletcher; The Influence of Geology on Human Development, by 
Gerard Fowke; The Masked Dancers of the Apache, by P. E. Goddard; 
A. Contribution to the Archeology of Middle America, by George Byron 
Gordon; Ambiguity in the Taos Personal Pronoun, by John Peabody 
Harrington; Latest Work of the School of American Archaeology at 
Quirigua, by Edgar L. Hewett; The Requickening Address of the League 
of the Iroquois, by J. N. B. Hewitt; Certain Mounds in Haywood County, 
North Carolina, by George G. Heye; The Origin and Destruction of a 
National Indian Portrait Gallery, by F. W. Hodge; Experimental Work 
in American Archeology and Ethnology, by Walter Hough; Anthropology 
of the Chippewa, by AleS Hrdlitka; Ethnic Amalgamation, by Albert 
Ernest Jenks; The Use of Adobe in Prehistoric Dwellings of the South- 
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