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During the early part of the calendar year Miss Mae W. Tucker 

 was detailed to this branch to assist in listing and cataloguing the 

 great collection of Indian negatives already classified by Mr. Gill 

 in previous years. Of the purely ethnologic subjects, including por- 

 traits, arts, and industries, the list will embrace more than 7,000 

 units. This work, so long delayed, has progressed most satisfactorily. 



LIBRARY 



The reference library has continued under the care of Miss Ella 

 Leary, librarian, assisted by Thomas Blackwell. 



During the year 600 volumes were accessioned, of which 97 were 

 acquired by purchase, 100 by binding of periodicals, and 403 by gift 

 and exchange ; also 190 pamphlets and 3,500 serials, chiefly the pub- 

 lications of learned societies, were received and recorded, of which 

 28 were obtained by purchase, the remainder being received through 

 exchange, giving us at the close of the year a working library of 

 26,671 volumes, 16,717 pamphlets, and several thousand unbound 

 periodicals. Books loaned during the year numbered 975 volumes. 

 During the year 473 volumes were bound. In addition to the use of 

 its own library, which is becoming more valuable through exchange 

 and by limited purchase, it was found necessary to draw on the 

 Library of Congress for the loan of about 250 volumes, and in turn 

 the bureau library was frequently consulted by officers of other 

 Government establishments, as well as by students not connected 

 with the Smithsonian Institution. The purchase of books and peri- 

 odicals has been restricted to such as relate to the bureau's researches. 

 During the year the cataloguing has been carried on as new acces- 

 sions were acquired and good progress was made in cataloguing 

 ethnologic and related articles in the earlier serials. The catalogue 

 was increased by the addition of 3,500 cards. A considerable amount 

 of reference work was done in the usual course of the library's 

 service to investigators and students, both in the Smithsonian 

 Institution and outside. 



COLLECTIONS 



Accession No. 



111046. Human skeletal material from a gravel bed along the Patuxent River, 

 Mrl., collected by T. Dale Stewart on June 16, 1030. (12 specimens.) 



111697. About 100 crania and parts of skeletons from Safety Harbor, Fla., col- 

 lected by M. W. Stirling. (139 specimens.) 



111961. Miniature clay toys made by Navajo Indian children and collected by 

 Dr. W. H. Spinks at Chin Lee, Ariz., and 15 snapshots. (37 

 specimens.) 



112277. Collection of 802 ivory specimens, etc., secured by Dr. A. Hrdlicka 

 along the Kuskokwim in 1930 from funds supplied by the bureau. 

 (802 specimens.) 



112393. Archeologieal and skeletal material collected by Dr. P. H. H. Roberts, jr., 

 during the summer of 1929 from a site in Arizonn. (553 specimens.) 



