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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



ment building-. It comprises .1 Large amount of material of popular as well as sci- 

 entific interest, derived from various portions of the country, a considerable part 

 of this material having been collected or prepared especially for the Exposition. 

 Most of the collaborators of the Bureau have contributed directly or indirectly to 

 this exhibit. 



The work of the modeling department has been continued. The chief work has 

 lain in the restoration and repair of models previously constructed and exhibited at 

 the expositions in New Orleans and Madrid. A number of new models and several 

 replicas of models already constructed have, however, been executed, chiefly for 

 use in the Columbian Exposition. 



During the year an exceptional number of applications for definite information 

 concerning our native tribes have been received from the publishers of encyclopedias, 

 dictionaries, physical geographies, and other standard works, and in view of the 

 educational value of these publications and the manifest public advantage to be 

 gained from the diffusion of the results of the latest scientific researches, it has been 

 deemed important to respond to such applications as fully as possible. Much infor- 

 mation has been disseminated in this way during the year, and several encyclopedia 

 articles have been prepared by the director and different collaborators of the Bureau. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The work connected with the illustration of reports has been continued under the 

 supervision of Mr. DeLancey W. Grill, chief of the division of illustrations of the 

 Geological Survey, the actual labor of executing drawings being performed in large 

 part by Miss Mary Irvin Wright and Miss Mary M. Mitchell. Most of the work 

 done by the former artist is highly elaborate, comprising drawings of pueblo life 

 aud ceremonials and representations of scenes in the ceremonials of the Sioux 

 ghost dance. The chief work of the latter has been the preparation of drawings of 

 Indian implements, principally objects of stone. Two hundred and fifty-seven orig- 

 inal drawings designed for reproduction by various processes were executed during 

 the year. 



One thousand three hundred and forty-four engraved proofs have been received 



from the Public Printer during the fiscal year aud have been examined, revised or 



approved, aud returned. The printed editions of all chromolithographs used in the 



publications of the Bureau have also been examined anil the imperfect sheets 



' rejected. 



The photographic work of the Bureau has been ably directed, as in previous years, 

 by Mr. J. K. Hillers. The following statement includes the work done in the pho- 

 tographic laboratory during the year: 



Size. 



28 li\ 34 inches. 

 22 by 28 inches. 

 20 by 24 inches. 

 14 by 17 inches. 

 11 by 14 inches. 

 s by io inches. . 

 ."> by 8 inches - 

 4 by 5 inches - - 



Nega- 

 tives. 



Prints. 



137 

 10 

 83 



309 

 85 



172 



629 

 1, 153 



I have the honor to be, yours, with respect, 



Mr. S. P. Lam,i.i;i , 



Secretary of the Smithsonian fnstUution. 



J . W 



Powell, 



Director. 



