UNITED STATES 405 



Circulars ... no. 1-51. 1881-1901. 8. 



Intended to bring to immediate notice urgent wants of the museum or to 

 promulgate special information with the least possible delay, no. 1-33, 37 

 repr. in Proc. v. 4, 6-8, 10; no. 35 in Report 1886. 



For contents of the above series and further bibliographical details, see 

 Bulletin no. 51 and suppl. 



Distribution. A certain number of copies of each Report is assigned to the 

 Museum for distribution to libraries, to correspondents, and to contributors to 

 the collections, while a considerable part of the edition is distributed by mem- 

 bers of Congress. The special papers reprinted from these volumes are fur- 

 nished free to those interested. The volumes of Proceedings are sent only to 

 libraries, while the separate papers are furnished without charge to specialists 

 and others engaged in scientific work. The Bulletins are intended principally for 

 libraries, but are also given to known specialists working on the groups to 

 which they relate. None of the above-mentioned publications are sold by the 

 Museum ; but when it cannot supply them, persons desiring to purchase are 

 advised to write to the Superintendent of documents, Government printing office, 

 Washington, D. C. Occasionally the Museum exchanges its publications for 

 desirable specimens. 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



Address. Washington, D. C. Chief: W. H. Holmes. 



History. Organized in 1879 when the archives, records and materials re- 

 lating to the Indians of North America, collected by the Geographical 

 and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region, were transferred 

 from the Department of the Interior to the Smithsonian Institution, 

 under an act of Congress approved Mar. 3 of that year. 



Publications. 



ist-25th ANNUAL REPORT . . . 1879/80-1903/04. Washington, 1881- 

 1907. 4. 



Also issued as Congressional documents. 



Contain administrative reports (also published separately) and papers. I4th, 

 I7th-igth, 22d each in 2 pts. ist-20th o. p. 



BULLETIN ... no. 1-33, 36. Washington, 1887-1907. 8 & 4. 



Series title and numbering begins with no. 25. Also issued as Congressional 



documents. 



Include numerous bibliographies of Indian languages, texts, etc. 

 no. 30: Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, ed. by F. W. 



Hodge, (pt. i, 1907; pt. 2 in press), 

 no. 36: List of publications of the Bureau of American ethnology with index 



to authors and titles. 1907. 

 no. 34-35 it press; no. 6, 9-10, 12-13 o. p. 



Contributions to North American ethnology, v. I-VII, IX. Washing- 

 ton, 1877-93. 4- 



