REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 121 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 



The National Gallery of Art issued during the year the following 

 publications : 



Catalogue of a collection of water-color paintings of the Grand Canyon of tbe 

 Colorado, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite Valley, Zion National Park, 

 Utah Natitmal Park, and the Monterey Coast of California, by Mr. Gunnar 

 Widforss. On view in the National Gallery, December, 1924, to January, 

 1925. 4 pp. 



Catalogue of a collection of busts of prominent personages in bronze and terra 

 cotta, by Mrs. Nancy Cox-McCormack. On view in the National Gallery, 

 December 16, 1924, to January IG, 1925. 4 pp. 



Catalogue of a collection of portraits and studies in different techniques, by 

 Leo Katz, of Vienna, Austria. On view in the National Gallery, January 16 

 to February 15, 1925. 4 pp. 



Catalogue of recent miniature portraits by Alyn Williams, P. R. M. S. (presi- 

 dent Royal Miniature Society), and portrait busts in bronze and plaster, 

 relief portraits, medallions, carvings in precious and semiprecious stones, 

 and some great seals, by Cecil Thomas, R. M. S. On view in the National 

 Gallery, March 3 to March 22, 1925. S pp. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE BLTREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



The editorial work of the Bureau of American Ethnolog}' is under 

 the direction of Mr. Stanley Searles, editor. During the year, there 

 were published two annual reports and one bulletin as follows: 



Thirty-eighth Annual Report. Accompanying paper: An Introductory Study 



of the Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana Indians (Roth), vii, 743 pp., 



183 pis., 341 iig.s. 

 Thirty-ninth Annual Report. Accompanying pai>er : The Osage Tribe : The 



Rite of Vigil (La Fle.sche). 636 pp., 17 pis., 4 figs. (Received July 13, 



1925.) 

 Bulletin 78. Handbook of the Indians of California (Kroeber). xviii, 995 pp., 



S3 pis., 78 tigs. (Received July 17, 1925.) 



At the close of the year there were in press or in preparation three 

 annual reports as follows : 



Fortieth Annual Report. Accompanying papers : The Mythical Origin of the 

 White Buffalo Dance of the Fox Indians; The Autobiography of a Fox 

 Indian Woman ; Notes on Fox Mortuary Customs and Beliefs ; Notes on 

 the Fox Society Known as " Those AVlio Worship the Little Spotted Buf- 

 falo " ; The Traditional Origin of the Fox Society Known as " The Singing 

 Around Rite." (Michelson.) 



Forty-first Annual Report. Accompanying paper: Salish Basketry (Boas). 



Forty-second Annual Report. Accompanying paper : Social Organization and 

 Social Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy ; Religious beliefs 

 and medical practices of the Creek Indians (Swanton). 



REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 



The annual reports of tlie American Historical Association are 

 transmitted by the association to the Secretary of the Smithsonian 



