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scientific friends and associates, he was presented with a silver loving cup on which the following inscription is engraved:

Washington, D. C.
May 16th, 1894.
Presented to William Henry Holmes by his
Associates in the Smithsonian Institution
and the United States Geological Survey
as a token of their esteem.

During the winter of 1894-95 an event of exceptional importance in Holmes' career occurred. This was an exploring expedition to Yucatan with Mr. Allison V. Armour of Chicago in his good yacht Ituna. The chief result of this trip was the publication by the Field Museum of a volume of 338 pages on the ancient ruins of Yucatan and Central America with numerous illustrations of the remarkable ruined buildings and works of sculpture and with maps, ground plans ^[[of the buildings]] and panoramic views of the cities.*

  In 1897 he returned to Washington to become Head Curator of the Department of Anthropology in the National Museum, this department including besides ethnology and archeology, the collections of technology, history and art. In 1900 he spent the months of February and March with Major Powell studying the antiquities of the Island of Cuba, and later joined Secretary S. P. Langley in Jamaica assisting in the study of the flight of the
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*Archaeological Studies Among the Ancient Ruins of Mexico, ^[[by W H Holmes]]" in two parts.