54 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1918. 



MANUSCRIPTS. 



The following manuscripts, exclusive of those submitted for publi- 

 cation by the bureau, were purchased : 



Unique copy of the Journal of Frederick Kurz's Travels through 

 the Western States (in German). In addition to the text (in Ger- 

 man) there are two jackets of photographs of original drawings of 

 great historical value. 



Six letters on British Guiana written by J. Henry Holmes to his 

 wife, Mary Jane Holmes. 



EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS. 



On June 30, 1917, Mr. J. G. Gurley resigned his position as editor 

 and Mr. Stanley Searles was appointed to the vacancy July 1. Both 

 editors were assisted by Mrs. Frances S. Nichols. A report of the 

 publication work of the bureau during the fiscal year follows : 



Publications issued. 



Bulletin 63. — Analytical and Critical Bibliography of the Tribes of Tierra del 

 Fuego and Adjacent Territory, by John M. Cooper. 233 p., 1 pi. 



Hawaiian Romance of Laieikaivai. — By Martha Warren Beckwkh. An advance 

 separate from the Thirty-third Annual Report. 3S4 p.. 5 pi. 



Publications in press. 



Thirty-second Annual Report. — Accompanying paper: Seneca Fiction, Legends, 

 and Myths (Hewitt and Curtiu). 



Thirty-third Annual Report. — Accompanying papers: (1) Uses of Plants by 

 the Indians of the Missouri River Region (Gilmore) ; (2) Preliminary Account 

 of the Antiquities of the Region Between the Mancos and La Plata Rivers in 

 Southwestern Colorado (Morris) ; (3) Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery 

 (Fewkes) ; (4) The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai (Beckwith). 



Thirty-fourth Annual Report. — Accompanying paper: West Indian Antiqui- 

 ties in the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation) (Fewkes). 



Thirty-fifth Annual Report. — Accompanying paper : Ethnology of the Kwakiutl 

 (Boas). 



Bulletin 59. — Kutenai Tales (Boas). 



Bulletin 60. — Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities — Part 1 (Holmes). 



Bulletin 61. — Teton Sioux Music (Densmore). 



Bulletin 64. — The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British 

 Honduras (Gann). 



Bulletin 65. — Archcological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona (Kidder 

 and Guernsey). 



Bulletin 66. — Recent Discoveries of Remains Attributed to Early Man in 

 America ( Hrdlicka ) . 



Bulletin 67. — Alsea Texts and Myths (Frachtenberg). 



DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



The distribution of the publications has been continued under the 

 immediate charge of Miss Helen Munroe, assisted in the opening 



