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PROFESSOR HOLMES' RESEARCHES ON THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE YELLOWSTONE CANYON.

It is a matter of personal gratification to find my geological work of [[underlined]] 1878 [[/underlined]] in the Yellowstone Park as recorded in the Hayden Survey Report for 1878 and which has remained unnoticed for fifty years, cited as the most successful interpretation of the geology of the Grand Canyon yet published.  The two well known geologists, Professor R. M. Field of Princeton [[insertion]] ^[[Chief dept. of Geol Univserity N. J.]] [[/insertion]] and Professor O. T. Jones of Manchester, [[insertion]] ^[[University, England]] [[/insertion]] who had spent the summer of [[underline]] 1928 [[/underline]] in a careful study of the Canyon region, called upon me on their return from the field in the fall to congratulate me on my work there, researches almost forgotten by me, the announcement which caused me to exclaim "Holmes geologically dug up!"  1878 was my last year in Rocky Mountain field geology, archeology and later art having claimed me.

So gratifying is the report of these gentlemen that I am tempted by a modest feeling of triumph to quote the following from their Report published in the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE for March 1929.  I may add that this quotation is but one of the several references approving of my interpretations.

... "Upon our return to the east we reexamined the bibliography on the geology of the Yellowstone Park. Since the publication of the Yellowstone Folio in 1905, we could not fine any record that the facts mentioned above had been