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work of the Bureau, including the purchase of supplies and the preparation of 

 accounts. 



The clerical work during the year included the registration and cataloguing of 

 letters, the preparation of replies to letters, and the keeping of miscellaneous records. 

 The method described in the report for the previous year as having been adopted 

 has been employed during this year, and the clerical work of the Bureau is kept 

 up to date. As a rule, letters are answered the same day that they are received, and 

 it is only where technical information is called for that there is any delay what- 

 ever. The letters in regard to publications, finances, Held work, and miscellaneous 

 information cover 2,835 pages in the press-copy letter books. 



Miss E. R. Smedes has given excellent service in connection with the general cor- 

 respondence of the Bureau. The clerical work in the Library has been satisfactorily 

 attended to by Miss Ella Leary. 



The very considerable work involved in the care and distribution of publications 

 has been in charge of Miss May S. Clark, who has efficiently met the Bureau's needs 

 in this direction. 



Mrs. F. S. Nichols was certified by the Civil Service Commission for temporary 

 work in connection with the Dictionary of Indian Tribes, and Misses Postley, Stratton, 

 and Taliaferro were employed for brief periods in the same work. 



The property of the Bureau is comprised in seven classes, as follows: 

 Office furniture and appliances. 

 Field outfits. 



Ethnological manuscripts and other documents. 

 Photographs, drawings, paintings, and engravings. 

 A working library. 



Collections held temporarily by collaborators for use in research. 

 Undistributed residue of the editions of Bureau publications. 



Eespectfully submitted. 



W. H. Holmes, 

 Chief of Bureau. 

 Mr. S. P. Langley, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



July 15, 1904. 



