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HONORS FOR HOLMES.

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Well-Known Scientist of Chicago
    Is Called to Washington.

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HAS EARNED HIS PREFERMENT.

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Won a Place in Geologic and Anthropo-
   logical Research Recognized
     Throughout the World.

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  Professor W. H. Holmes, curator of the department of anthropology in the Field of Columbian Museum and professor of anthropic geology in the University of Chicago, has been summoned to Washington and assigned to one of the highest positions which the government can give a scientist.
  At the Field museum the well-known scientist had in his care one of the largest collections illustrative of the history of man's progress in the arts of life in existence, but in his new position he will be able to arrange and classify untold riches in these lines.  Not content with marking him head of either the national museum or the Smithsonian Institution, the government has made a new office for him by combining all the vast collection in the departments of anthropology and ethnology in the two great institutions under his care.  Not only is this a great opportunity for work, but it is a great and unexpected honor to the Chicago man.
  For years these two institutions have been receiving and storing in their halls vast quantities of valuable material from every corner of the country.  Expeditions to all known cites in this land and South America have brought back discoveries which have been only partly classified.  Collectors in the west and throughout the Indian reservations have been gathering thousands of objects illustrative of the development of the arts among the Indians and sending them to the National Museum or the Smithsonian Institution.  From year to year the latter and the bureau of ethnology have issued costly and valuable publications descriptive of the work of the several departments.  These publications have for many years been enriched by the work of Professor Holmes and beautified by his illustrations.
     [[bold]]  Recognized by Government.  [[/bold]]
  As far back as 1872 the value of his services was recognized by the government, and he was sent west with the party which prepared the survey of the territories.  This work consumed eight years and brought Professor Holmes immediately into prominence.  He was at that time a geologist pure and simple, and was untiring in his explorations and his careful delineation of this almost unknown region.   His early sketches of the Grand Canon are to be found in the works on geology in almost every language.  He was the first to give scientific value to his work as an artist, and he now stands at the head of the modern school of artist-scientists.  From this time he continued his artistic labors with scrupulous care, sketching and painting in one field and another, but always with painstaking fidelity and scientific accuracy.  Of this branch of his work Head Professor Chamberlain of the department of geology said to-day:
  "He is undoubtely the best geologic artist of this or any other time.   He is undoubtedly without any superior, although he has many admiring imitators."
  This is also the opinion of Sir Archibald Giekie, which he expresses in the introduction to the last edition of his well-known textbook.

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