Come direttore del Carnegie Museums, Holland ha raggiunto una fama internazionale per la supervisione del montaggio di diversi calchi del dinosauro sauropodeDiplodocus, composta da donazioni da parte di moltissimi musei di storia naturale di tutta Europa.[2] I lavori sui Diplodocus gli valsero riconoscimenti internazionale come, la Legion d'onore francese e una German knight's cross tedesca.[3]
Holland, W. J. (1898). The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America . New York: Doubleday & McClure. (Reprinted by Dover.)
Holland, W. J. (1913). To the River Plate and Back: The Narrative of a Scientific Mission to South America, with Observations on Things Seen and Suggested . New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. (on-line)
"William Jacob Holland" in American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
^Holland, W. J. (1913). To the River Plate and Back. The narrative of a scientific mission to South America, with observations on things seen and suggested. New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons
^Nieuwland, Ilja (2010). The colossal stranger. Andrew Carnegie and Diplodocus intrude European Culture, 1904–1912. Endeavour34(26).