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the scientific value of the work, but also the importance of the subject treated, the method of investigation pursued by the author and the artistic and literary excellence of the presentation.
The monographs that were formally submitted were the productions of eight different authors.  Of these the committee selected as being the most meritorious and as fully complying with the conditions prescribed for the competition the treatise offered by Mr. William Henry Holmes of Washington, the title of whose treatise was "Stone Implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake Tidewater Provinces."  In recommending the award of the first prize of $1,000 to Mr. Holmes, the committee says:
"This volume may be held to mark an epoch in American archaeological research by interpreting the remarkably abundant artifacts of a typical region in the light of previous studies of actual aboriginal handiwork, and thus establishing a basis for the classification of the stone art of the western hemisphere.  It is the result of many years of personal study, numerous experiments and close typological analysis, and is supplied with a wealth of illustrative material that gives it most exceptional interest and value."
The second prize of $400 was awarded to Dr. Franz Boas of the [[strikethrough]] Metropolitan [[/strikethrough]] ^[[American]] Museum of Natural History of New York, the subject of whose monograph was: "The Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians." Honorable mention