70 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1930 



Printed editions of colored plates examined at Government Printing 

 Office 31,500 



Correspondence attended to (letters) 210 



Photographs selected and catalogued for private publishers 314 



Photo-laboratory work by Dr. A. J. Olmsted, National Museum, in 

 cooperation vpith the Bureau of American Ethnology : 



Negatives 84 



Prints 253 



Lantern slides 23 



LIBRARY 



The reference library has continued under the care of Miss Ella 

 Lear}'^, librarian, assisted by Mr. Thomas Blackwell. 



The library consists of 29,071 volumes, about 16,527 pamphlets, 

 and several thousand unbound periodicals. During the year 559 

 books were accessioned, of which 109 were acquired by purchase 

 and 450 by gift and exchange; also 150 pamphlets, and 4,106 serials, 

 chiefly the publications of learned societies, were received and re- 

 corded, of which 110 were obtained by purchase, the remainder being 

 received through exchange. The catalogue was increased by the 

 addition of 3,420 cards. Volumes to the number of 210 were collated 

 and prepared for binding. Numerous loans were made to libraries in 

 Washington, and a considerable amount of reference work was done 

 in the usual course of the library's service to investigators and stu- 

 dents, both those in the Smithsonian Institution and others. The 

 purchase of books and periodicals for the library has been restricted 

 to such as relate to the bureau's researches. 



Many volumes received by the library not pertaining to anthro- 

 pology were transferred to the library of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. During the year the cataloguing has been carried on as new 

 accessions were acquired and good progress was made in cataloguing 

 ethnologic and related articles in the earlier serials. The number 

 of books borrowed from the Library of Congress for the use of the 

 staff of the bureau in prosecuting their researches was about 150. 



COLLECTIONS 



Accession No. 



107862. Archaic black and white bowl collected by Doctor Fewkes from Far 



View House, Mesa Verde, in 1921, and fragment of ancient Zuni 



pottery from Canyon del Muerto, Ariz., collected by Dr. W. H. 



Spinks. (2 specimens.) 

 107866. Blackberryiug basket made by Mrs. Ascension Solorsano, a San Juan 



Indian, and collected by J. P. Ilarriugtun in 1929. (1 specimen.) 

 309074, Flint hammerstone presented to the bureau by J. D. Howard; cast 



of an engraved bone gorget sent by E. M. Graves ; and a Chinese 



basket. (3 specimens.) 



