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THURSDAY, MAY 17,
^[[STAR 1894]]
HONORS FOR PROF. HOLMES.
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A Farewell Banquet, With Speeches and Compliments.

Prof. W. H. Holmes, who recently severed his connection with the bureau of ethnology to accept the position of head of the department of anthropology in the great Field Columbian Museum at Chicago, was tendered a farewell banquet last evening that must have given him some idea of the popular hold he has upon the scientists and artists of this city, among whom he has worked so long and so successfully. Prof. Holmes, who is both a scientist and an artist, has a world-wide reputation in his special field of work, and from the speeches made last night it was evident that his colleagues believe that the big new museum in Chicago could not do better than it did in securing the services of Mr. Holmes at the head of one of the three departments of the institution.
  
Covers were laid for nearly a hundred in the tea room of Willard's for the banquet last evening, and the occasion was marked by every evidence of good fellowship, albeit marked by more than the usual amount of regret at losing a member of the fraternity of Washington's learned men. Mr. Frank Hamilton Cushing of the bureau of ethnology presided. At his right, about the tables which were beautifully decorated with flowers, were Prof. Holmes, Prof. Charles D. Walcott, Dr. G. Brown Goode, and on his left Senor Zeballos; minister from the Argentine  Republic; Prof. W. J. McGee, W. E. Curtis and Dr. Cyrus Adler.
  
The first speech of the evening, after the menu had been satisfactorily disposed of, was made by Prof. G. Brown Goode of the National Museum, who responded to the toast of the scientific institutions of Washington. He referred to his pride in enjoying the acquaintance of Prof. Holmes and to the fact that he was one of an original group of seven scientific investigators. Dr. T. C. Mendenhall of the coast and geodetic survey followed him in a speech on Ohio, as the home of the guest, he himself hailing from the buckeye state. Other speeches were made by Mr. E. H. Miller, the artist, who spoke of the work done by Mr. Holmes as a water colorist; Dr. D. T. Day, Senor Zeballos, Mr. Wm. Eleroy Curtis, Prof. Thomas Wilson, Prof. Otis T. Mason, Judge J. D. McGuire and Prof. J. H. Gannett. Prof. W. J. McGee expressed the opinion that the dream of Jefferson for a great national university has been realized on a grand scale, and that the scientific institutions of Washington were in many departments leading the world. Prof. William Flint read a poem, and Prof. Charles D. Walcott presented Prof. Holmes, in behalf of his friends, with a large silver loving cup. The banquet closed with a graceful acknowledgement of the honor paid him by Prof. Holmes, in which he declared that for the encouragement in undertaking his new work he would be willing to go to a worse place than Chicago. All rose and sang "Auld Lang Syne," and a very pleasant incident in the life of a deservedly popular man was completed.

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