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and that under a commission from that Board he visited the Philippine Islands and 

 made extensive collections of ethnologic and archaeologic material, with the under- 

 standing that, after use during the exposition, a considerable portion of it should be 

 transferred to the National ]Museum. Toward the close of the' year Colonel Hilder 

 reported the shipment of extensive collections, together with a good series of photo- 

 graphs, drawings, etc., designed for use in the installation. Incidentally he availed 

 himself of opportunities to obtain certain useful ethnologic literature required for the 

 library of the Bureau. 



PROPERTY. 



As explained in previous reports, the property of the Bureau is practically limited 

 to (1) office furniture and other apjiurtenances to office work, (2) ethnologic manu- 

 scripts and other records of original work, (8) photographs and drawings of Indian 

 subjects, (4) a small working lilirary, (5) collections held temporarily by collabora- 

 tors f(^r use in research, and (6) undistributed residua of the editions of the Bureau 

 publications. During the fiscal year there has been no noteworthy change in the 

 amount or value of the office property; a considerable number of manuscripts ( includ- 

 ing two of special value noted in earlier paragraphs) have been added to the archives, 

 either temporarily or permanently; over a thousand photographic negatives and 

 several hundred prints and drawings have been added to the collection of illus- 

 trative material, while the library iias maintained normal growth, chiefly througli 

 exchanges. There was no considerable accumulation or transfer of objective mate- 

 rial required for study during the year, while there was a considerable reduction in 

 the numl)er of back Reports through the constantly increasing public demand for 

 ethnologic literature. 



PUBLICATION. 



Mr. F. W. Hodge remained in charge of the editorial work, with the assistance of 

 Col. F. F. Hilder during the earlier part of the year and of Mr. H. S. Wood during 

 Colonel Hilder's absence in the Philippines. The second part of the Seventeenth 

 Annual Report was received from the Government Printing Office during the year, 

 though the lirst part was unfortunately delayed. The printing of the Fighteenth 

 Report Avas practically comi^leted. The Nineteenth Report was transmitted for 

 puV)lication on March 28, and the composition of this Report and also of the first 

 bulletin of the new series was under way before the close of the fiscal year. 



Mr. DeLancey Gill, the illustrator of the Bureau, remained in charge of the jihoto- 

 grai^hic work and of the preparation of copy for the frequently elaborate illustrations 

 required in presenting adequately the results of the researches. 



The work in the library of the Bureau was maintained under the supervision of 

 Mr. Hodge. During the greater part of the fiscal year he had the assistance of Mrs. 

 Lucretia M. "Waring, who made good progress in the cataloguing of the books and 

 ])amphlets in accordance with the classification of anthropic science developed in the 

 Bureau. The number of books and pamphlets on hand at the close of the fi-scal year 

 is about 12,000 and 4,000, respectively. 



NECROLOGY. 



It is with much sorrow that I have to report the death of Frank Hamilton Gush- 

 ing, ethnologist in the Bureau, on April 10, 1900. Mr. Gushing was one of the most 

 enthusiastic students of ethnology ever produced in America, and the spark of his 

 genius illumined many problems of the science. His death was a blow to the 

 Bureau and a loss to the world. A more extended obituary will be transmitted 

 later. 



