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LITERARY TRIBUTE 
10 MUSEUM HEAD 
= 10) Pages of Rie eclosion! 
Essays Birthday Gift to Dr. 
“Holmes. ea Net 
Washington, Dec, 24.—A five-hundred 
Pege volume of anthropoligical essays, 
unding with pertinent and beautiful 
ivy Holmes, head curator of anthro- 
‘y in the United States National 
Museum, on the otcasion of his; recent 
sceventieth birthday. 
“Phe volume is a tribute by bis friends 
and co-laborers in the study of anthro- 
pology, forty-four of whom contributed 
lal articles for publication in the 
iversary 
‘t-in-charge of the Bureau of Ameri- 
Ae isthnology of the Smithsenian In- 
stitution. i 
- Ihe presentation took place at a din- 
ner held at the Wafayette Hotel; at 
which were: present most of those who 
took’ part in the preparation of the 
look, and proved a complete surprise 
to the guest of honor. Mr. Holmes has 
‘been’ engaged in scientific investigations 
uider the Government: for. forty-five 
years; first, with the Government Geo- 
logical Surveys, then with the Geologi- 
cal Survey, and finally the Bureau of 
American Ethnology, and the United 
States National Museum. In fact, he 
has been in the scientific service of the 
Government continuously since 1871, 
with the exception of three years. Be-~ 
sides being a geologist and anthropolo- 
gist, Mr. Holmes is an artist of note, 
-and has been curator cf the National 
' Gallery of Art, a branch of the Na- 
ticnal Museum, since its establishment 
several years ago. 
Interesting Articles. ; 
His influence upon the work of his 
collaborators and assistants has been | 
very marked. 
Among the many interesting an in- 
structive articles are thirteen written 
by members of e staff of the Smith- 
sohian’ Institution and its branches. 
“The Cliff Ruins in Fewkes Canyon, 
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado,” 
is the subject of a report by Dr. Jesse 
Walker Fewkes, of the Bureau of 
strations, was presented to William’ 
American Hthnology, on his recent ex-} 
volume. The book, of! 
ch only 200 copies were printed, was _ 
a ited by Frederick W. Hodge, ethnolo- 
Painteq House and other prehistoric 
ruins in the canyon. ‘“‘Musie in its ps 
lation to the Religious Thought of the 
Teton Sioux,” is the title of an article 
by .Miss Frances Densmore. Other 
cavation and repair of Oak-trée House, | 
articles pertaining to the work of the 
Bureau of Ethnology are by F. W. 
Hodge, Miss Alice C. Fletcher, J. N. B. 
Hewitt, John Peabody Harrington, 
Francis LaFlesche, Truman Miche 
and John R. Swanton. / 
Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, assistant cura-_ 
tor of Old World archeology of the Na- 
tional Museum, writes on ‘‘Paralleis 
in the Cosmogonies of the Old. World 
and the New,’* in which he discusses | 
and compares the old and new theories | 
respecting the genesis of the ‘visible | 
universe, and the manner and order in 
which the various forms of life came 
into being, citing several curious paral- 
Jels, such as the primeval water-chaos, 
the world-egg, the storied universe and 
the creation of man from dust, clay 
and wood. 
Many Eminent Aube 
Three other members of the museum 
aff contributed | articles, as follows: 
Dr. Walter Hough, “xperimental Work | 
in American ‘Anthropology | and Eth-} 
nology,’? in which he speaks of the 
work,, methods and influence of Mr. 
Itolmes among American scientists; Dr. 
Ales Hrdlicka, ‘Anthropology of the 
Chippewa,’ wherein he reports on his 
studies of the White Harth Chippewa in 
an endeavor to establish their identity 
as full/or mixed bloods, and Neil M. 
Judd, ‘The Use of Adobe in Prehistoric 
Dwellings of the Southwest.” ; 
Contributions from other eminent an- 
thropologists include discussions on 
“The Cult of the Ax,” by George Grant 
McCurdy; “The Supplementary Series 
in Maya Inscriptions,’ by Sylvanus G. 
Morley; ‘‘The Domain of the Aztecs and 
Their Relation to the Prehistoric Cul- 
tures of Mexico,’ by Alfred. M. Tozzer; 
“Cardan’s Suspension in China,” by 
Berthold Laufer, and articles by Gerald 
Fowke, Edgar lL. Hewett, George ce 
Heye, Charles Peabody, Charles C. Wil- 
‘Joughby, A. V., Kidder, S, A. Barrett, 
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‘ fels Cc. Nelson, 
Franz Boas, Theodore de Booy, David 
I. Bushnell, Jr.,; William Churchill, Ro- 
land B. Dixon, William Curtis Farabee, 
P. EB. Goddard, George Byron Gordon, 
Albert TErnest Jenks, A. L. Kroeber, | 
Robert H. ULowie, Charles W. Mead, | 
*"dliam C. Mills, Warren K. Moorehead, | 
George H. Pepper, Mar-> 
shall H. Saville, Frank G. Speck, Her- 
bert J. Spinden and Clark Wissler. 
The volume closes with a bibliography | 
of Mr. Holmes, comprising 184 titles, 
which was compiled by Miss Blla Leary, 
Ybrarian of the Bureau of American | 
Ethnology. 3 
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