In 1893 Mr. Holmes became 
associated with the geological 
department of the Chicago Uni- 
versity, where he gave one course 
of lectures on Anthropic Geology, 
and another on Graphic Methods 
Applied to Geologic Llustration. 
_ In 1894 he was appointed Curator 
of anthropology in the Field 
Columbian Museum, Chicago, 
where he served three and a half 
years classifying, installing, and 
describing the rich collection of 
_ that institution. The winter of 
1894 was spent in Mexico, study- 
_ ing its ancient monuments. His 
_ report on this work has been pub- 
_ lished in two parts: I. Monuments 
of Yucatan, and 11. Monuments of 
——$————— Chiapas, Oaxaca, and the Valley 
of Mexico. In July, 1897, Professor Holmes was again called to 
Washington, where on October 1 he took the position of head 
Curator of Anthropology in the U. S. National Museum. 
From this brief sketch it will be seen that Professor Holmes’ life 
has been a busy and undoubtedly a happy one, for he early found 
that his life-calling and its pursuits brought him happiness. He has 
published fifty-four papers, many of them voluminous, and all of 
them crammed with valuable additions to those sciences which he 
has studied so carefully and continuously. 
Professor Holmes is a graceful speaker, and he has mastered a 
style that is a. surprise and a delight to the purely literary man. His 
illustrations made, it is said, with marvelous rapidity, are the very 
best we have seen. They are not simply superior as works of art, 
but they illustrate his text in a way that makes his reports clear to 
the veriest novice. 
Professor Holmes is in the midst of his great work, and, as it pro- 
ceeds, it is our hope that the readers of MonumMENTAL Recorps will 
know more and more of this scholarly and gifted American. 
ALFRED R. CALHOUN, 
/£4] 
