58 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1915. 



request of the Public Library of Haverhill, Mass., this series of pic- 

 tures was sent for public exhibition in that library. In addition, 

 collections of photographs of Indian subjects, designed to illustrate 

 in part the work of the bureau, were sent for exhibition at the Pan- 

 ama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and at the Panama-Califor- 

 nia Exposition in San Diego. 



LIBRARY. 



The reference library of the bureau has been in the continuous 

 charge of Miss Ella Leary, librarian, assisted by Mrs. Ella Slaughter 

 until her death on November 1, 1914, and subsequently by Charles 

 B. Newman, messenger boy. During the year 997 books were acces- 

 sioned, but of this number only 448 were newly acquired, the remain- 

 der being represented by the binding and by entry on the records 

 of serial publications that had been in possession of the bureau for 

 some time= Of these accessions 138 volumes were acquired by pur- 

 chase and 310 by gift or through exchange. The serial publications 

 currently received number about 700, of which only 17 are obtained 

 by subscription, the remainder being received by exchange of the 

 bureau's reports and bulletins. Of pamphlets, 294 were acquired. 

 The number of volumes bound was 678. The library contained 

 20,237 volumes, 13,188 pamphlets, and several thousand unbound 

 periodicals at the close of the year. The number of books borrowed 

 from the Library of Congress for the use of the staff of the bureau 

 in prosecuting their researches was about 450. 



The new steel bookstacks in the eastern end of the main hall of the 

 Smithsonian building, referred to in the last annual report, were 

 finished and placed at the disposal of the bureau in August, when the 

 work of reinstallation of the library was undertaken by the librarian 

 and promptly carried to completion. The facilities afforded by the 

 new stacks are an improvement over those of the old library equip- 

 ment, while safety is greatly increased. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The following collections were acquired by the bureau or by mem- 

 bers of its staff and transferred to the National Museum, as required 

 by law : 



Model of Cherokee packing basket from the East Cherokee Reservation, Swain 



Coiinty, N. C. Collected by James Mooney, Bureau of American Ethnology. 



(57699.) 

 179 archeological objects from the lower Mimbres Valley and an earthenware 



vase from Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Blexico. Collected by Dr. J. Walter 



Fewkes, Bureau of American Ethnology. (57777.) 

 Three stone figurines from tJie Tewa Indians of New Mexico. Collected by 



Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, Bureau of American Ethnology. (58129.) 

 Snipe flute of the Sioux Indians. Received from Rev. A. McG. Beede, of North 



Dakota. (58254.) 



