76 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1926 
During the year the library was used also by officers of the executive 
departments and the Library of Congress. The library is greatly 
indebted to many private individuals for numerous donations of 
publications. Mention may be made of a collection given by Mrs. 
Safford, consisting of 50 books and one manuscript belonging to her 
husband, the late Dr. W. E. Safford. 
During the year the cataloguing has been carried on as new ac- 
cessions were acquired and good progress was made in cataloguing 
ethnologic and related articles in the earlier serials. 
The library, among other representative libraries, is cooperating 
with the Library of Congress in checking up the Union List of 
Serials of the United States and Canada, compiled by the H. W. 
Wilson Co. This necessitates the checking up of the entire collection 
of periodicals. 
COLLECTIONS 
88232. Two plaster casts made by Mr. Egberts of an amulet sent to the bureau 
for identification by W. W. C. Dunlop, Codrington College, Barbados, 
British West Indies. 
90380. Two chert rejects, four potsherds, and one small arrow point found in 
a gravel pit about one-half mile west of the Grand River, near Prior, 
Okla., and presented to the bureau by Grant Foreman. 
90604. Archeological and skeletal material collected by H. B. Collins, jr., at 
various localities in Mississippi during 1925. (78 specimens.) 
90652. Collection of 44 archeological specimens from graves at Vantage Ferry, 
Wash., purchased by the bureau from Harle O. Roberts. 
90813. Collection of eight stone and shell implements found by Charles T. Earle 
on the beach at Shaws Point, Fla., and presented by him to the 
bureau. 
91825. Collection of about 19 lots of human skeletal material collected in 
Florida by Dr. J. W. Gidley. 
92317. Archeological specimens collected in Louisiana by Gerard Fowke. (108 
specimens, ) 
PROPERTY 
Furniture and office equipment were purchased to the amount of 
$750. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Clerical.—The correspondence and other clerical work of the office 
has been conducted by Miss May S. Clark, clerk to the chief, assisted 
by Mr. Anthony W. Wilding, stenographer. On May 15, Mr. Wilding 
accompanied the chief to the field, acting as general assistant. Miss 
Mae W. Tucker, stenographer, was engaged in assisting Dr. John 
R. Swanton in compiling a Timucua dictionary and in assisting Mr. 
Hewitt in reclassifying and recataloguing the manuscripts in the 
bureau archives. Mrs. Frances S. Nichols assisted the editor. 
Personnel.—Mr. James E. Connor, who received a temporary ap- 
pointment as minor clerk February 4 to assist in the cataloguing of 
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