Building B Group II, Holmul
In 1910, Harvard’s Peabody Museum Expedition of 1910 investigated, a small 
buried structure named Building B of Group II. It would be the first structure to be scientifically studied in the Maya lowlands. This study would produce many surprises.
Raymond Merwin - obituary
Raymond Edwin Merwin was born in Humbolt, Kansas November 21, 1881 and died in New York City November 25.
He received his A.B. degree from the University of Kansas in 1903, his A. M. Degree the following year, and during the school year 1904-5 he had the teachers fellowship in sociology and anthropology. He was principal of the high school Galena, Kan. High School in 1905.
In 1906 he entered Harvard University from which institution he received his Ph. D. Degree. For several years he was employed by Peabody Museum of Harvard University in Archaeological work directing expeditions into different parts of Central America. In this work he contracted a tropical disease which baffled the skill of many physicians and from which he never recovered.
In 1916 he was married to Evelyn Albrecht of Massillon, Ohio. Their home was made at Hot Springs, Ark.
Besides his wife he is survived by his father and mother, Mr and Mrs C. E. Merwin, a sister, Mrs Ivah Barrett; a brother, John M. Merwin, all of Lawerence, and a brother, Bruce W. Merwin of Carbondale, Ill.
The funeral services was held at the home of his father, C. E. Merwin, 941 Indiana street, Wednesday afternoon, November 28 at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs George M. Lowman and Mrs. V. K. Bruner, accompanied by Miss Florence Beamer, sang “Lead Kindly Light” and “Neared My God to Thee.” Words of comfort were spoken by Dr. Harry A. Gordon, paster of the First Methodist Episcopal church, Lawerence, using for a text John 14:16. Interment of the body was made at the Oak Hill cemetery. The pall-bearers were as follows: Jay Bond, Dr. J. A. Schaefer, David Horkman, Oscar J. Lane, Glen Seaman, J.W. Twente.
