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Among these were wax cylinder recordings of Indian songs, which 

 were transferred to the Bureau's record deposit in the music division 

 of the Library of Congress. Ten cylinders contained Hopi songs 

 recorded about 1900 and bore descriptive labels largely unintelligible 

 except to a specialist in the Hopi language. Dr. Frederick Dock- 

 stader, a Hopi specialist, assisted in the interpretation of these labels 

 before the recordings were sent to the Library. 



A collection of mounted plant specimens unrelated to ethnological 

 studies collected by Dr. A. E. Jenks early in his professional career 

 were transferred to the University of Minnesota, with which Dr. Jenks 

 was long associated. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS 



Public interest in the photographic collections continues to grow. 

 Additions to the photograpliic collection included an album of photo- 

 graphs relating principally to Indians made by William S. Soule in 

 the vicinity of Fort Dodge, Kans., Camp Supply, Okla., and 

 Fort Sill, Okla., in 1867-74. Although numerous examples of the 

 fine work of this frontier photographer have long been in the Bureau, 

 and have appeared in Bureau publications, the new voliune is notable 

 in that it belonged to the photographer and contains captions written 

 by him. It also contains a number of prints not pre^dously received, 

 including a likeness of Soule himself. The photographs were pre- 

 sented by Miss Lucia A. Soule of Boston, the daughter of the photog- 

 rapher. 



A group of 32 negatives made on the Madeira, Tapajoz, and Xingu 

 Rivers, Brazil, in 1911-12, were presented by the photographer, 

 Francisco von Teuber, engineer. They include views of the country 

 and the Indians of the region. 



Copy negatives were made for the Bureau files of a number of 

 photographs from the personal collection of the late A. K. Fisher, 

 well-known naturalist. The photographs were lent by Dr. Fisher's 

 daughter-in-law, Mrs. Walter K. Fisher, of Pacific Grove, Calif., 

 before she donated Dr. Fisher's personal papers, including photo- 

 graphs, to the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congi-ess. 



Photographs copied include views of Tlingit and Haida villages on 

 the Alaskan coast and of habitations at Plover Bay, Siberia, all made 

 on the Harriman Expedition to Alaska in 1899. A few photogi-aphs 

 of Hawaiians made by H. W. Henshaw about 1900 and a series of 

 photos made and collected by E. W. Nelson in Mexico in 1902 were 

 also copied. 



A group of conmiercial portraits of Indians, collected by Gen. E. R. 

 Kellogg while in command at Fort Washakie, Wyo., about 1891, was 

 donated by his daughter, Mrs. Robert Newbegin, of Toledo, Ohio. 



