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then spent several years in Washington engaging in arcliteologic work and tilling the position of curator of the department of aboriginal pottery in the National museum, lbi82-98. In 1883 he visited Mexico for the purpose of making arch- jeologic investigations, and in 1889 he resigned from the geologic survey and had charge of the archfeological field work of the bureau of eth- nology of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-93. His most important work in this connection was the investigation of the quarrying and mining industries of the aborigines and of the associated manufacture of stone implements. He was appointed non-resident professor of archasologic geology in the University of Chicago in 1893 and curator of antliropology in the Field Columbian museum, Chicago, in 1894. In 1897 he resigned the latter position to accept the head curator- ship of anthropology in the National museum, Washington. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1883 and a member of the Anthropo- logical society of Washington. D.C. His publica- tions consist of numerous geological reports and papers upon archa^ologic subjects.

HOLT, Erastus Eugene, physician, was born in Peru, Maine, June 1, 1849; son of Erastus and Lucinda (Packard) Holt; grandson of Abel and

(Pratt) Holt, and of Ephraim and Lydia

(Stiles) Packard, and a descendant of Scotch and English ancestors. He attended the public schools, Hebron academy and Westbrook and Gorliam seminaries; engaged in mercantile pur- suits for five 3'ears, and then applied himself to study and teaching. He was graduated from Bowdoin, M.D. in 1874, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, with the same degree in 1875. He was demonstrator of anatomy at Bowdoin, 187.J-77. He was maiTied in October, 1876, to Mary Brooks Dyer. In 1881 he went to Europe to make a special study of ophthalmology and otology and while in London was a member of the Seventh International Medical congress, held in August. 1881. He founded, in 1886, the Maine Eye and Ear Infir- mary in Portland, and was appointed executive surgeon of that institution. He obtained the pas- sage of an act for the prevention of blindness, passed by the Maine legislature in 1891, and was instrumental in obtaining the act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in Maine, which went into effect in 1896. He founded the Portland Medical club in 1870; was the origina- tor of the Maine Academy of Medicine and Science in 1894, and the founder and editor of the Journal of Aledicine and Science. He was also one of the founders of the New England Ophthal- mological society. He was elected a member of the Maine Medical association; the American

Ophthalmological and Otological societies; the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons; and the American Medical association. Colby university conferred ujion him the honorary de- gree of A.M. in 1897. His published writings con- sist chiefly of medical and surgical treatises, re- I^orts and papers published in various scientific Xjeriodicals, principally on the subjects of ophthal- mology and otology.

HOLT, Henry, publisher, was born in Balti- more, Md., Jan. 3, 1840; son of Dan and Ann Eve (Siebold) Holt; grandson of Philemon and Desire (Smith) Holt, and a descendant of William Holt, who .settled in New Haven, Conn., in 1044. He was graduated from Yale in 1863 as class po^t and with the Yale literary medal; and from Columbia law school in 1804. He engaged in publishing Avith G. P. Putnam in 1803, and in 1866 the firm of Leypoldt & Holt was formed, w^hicli subsequently became the firm of Henry Holt & Co. He was treasurer of the association for the promotion of international copj-right, formed by Bryant, Prime, Bristed, Putnam, Holt and others about 1867. He was elected a member of the American Geogi-aphical society, of which he was a trustee; of the America Association for the Advancement of Science; of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; first chairman of the American University Settle- ment society, and of the University Club library; and a member of the Century association, and of the University and Yale clubs of New York city. He was a charter member of the Author's Na- tional Copyright League and in 1886, when the league presented its case to the committee of the senate, Mr. Holt was chosen to present the argu- ment from the publishers' point of view. He afterward lectured and wrote to some extent on the subject of international copyright.

HOLT, Joseph, cabinet officer, was born in Breckenridge county, Ky., Jan. 6, 1807; son of John W. and Eleanor K. (Stephens) Holt; grand- son of Joseph Holt, and a descendant of John, who was a son of Roland Holt. He attended St. Joseph's college, Bardstown, and Centre college, Danville; studied law with Robert Wickliife, and jiractised in 1831, in partnership with Ben Hardin. He removed to LouisviUe in 1833, and practised law, meantime assisting Shadracli Penn in editing the Advertiser. He was commonwealth's attorney for the Louisville district, 1833-35; a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1836, and practised law in Port Gibson and Vicksburg, Miss., 1836-43. He was counsel for the city of Vicksburg in the claim of the heirs of Newit Vick, founder of the city, to land on the riverfront devoted by Vick to public use. He returned to Louisville, Ky., in 1843, having abandoned his profession on account of impaired