58 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1942 



No. 23. The eastern Cherokees, by William Harlen Gilbert, Jr. 



No. 24, Aconite poison wbaling in Asia and America: An Aleutian transfer 



to the New World, by Robert F. Heizer. 

 No. 25. The Carrier Indians of the Bulliley River: Their social and re- 

 ligious life, by Diamond Jenness. 

 No. 26. The quipu and Peruvian civilization, by John R. Svranton. 

 Bulletin 134. Native tribes of eastern Bolivia and western Matte Grosso, by 

 Alfred M6traux. 



Bulletin 135. Origin myth of Acoma and other records, by Matthew W. 

 Stirling. 

 Bulletin 136. Anthropological papers, numbers 27-32: 

 No. 27. Music of the Indians of British Columbia, by Frances Densmore. 

 No. 28. Choctaw music, by Frances Densmore. 

 No. 29. Some enthnological data concerning one hundred Yucatan plants, 



by Morris Steggerda. 

 No. 30. A description of 30 towns in Yucatan, 1937-39, with introductory and 



explanatory remarks, by Morris Steggerda. 

 No. 31. Some western Shoshoni myths, by Julian H. Steward. 

 No. 32. New material from Acoma, by Leslie A. White. 

 Bulletin 137. The Indians of the Southeastern United States, by John R. 

 Swanton. 



Publications distributed totaled 11,631. 



LIBRARY 



There has been no change in the library staff during the fiscal year. 

 Accessions during the fiscal year totaled 350. Volumes received by 

 exchange have fallen off sharply owing to the war, which has prac- 

 tically stopped exchange except from Great Britain and her posses- 

 sions and from South America. Several new exchange sets have been 

 started during the year. 



The reclassification of the library is practically completed. The 

 foreign society transactions and the foreign periodicals have been 

 reshelved and a temporary shelf list made. The publications of Indian 

 schools and missions have been classified, reshelved, and a temporary 

 shelflist made. All available Library of Congress cards for periodi- 

 cals in our collection have been obtained, and tliese cards have been 

 sorted and will be prepared as soon as time permits. 



The rare-book collection has been classified, reshelved, and shelf- 

 listed, and Library of Congress cards were obtained for nearly all this 

 collection. About 600 volumes of the rare-book collection were 

 packed for shipment to war storage in April. 



New books received during the year have been classified and shelf- 

 listed and are now on the shelf. The usual work of recording new 

 periodicals and society transactions and examining them for material 

 of interest and for book reviews has been kept up to date. 



