4 BTTREAH OF AMKRK'AN ETHN(>L<>(iY [bull.:;] 



tlii'ouu'liout the counli'v. The reiuaiiider are sohl hy the Superiii- 

 teiulentof DocuiiuMit.s, ( roveniiiieiit Printing' OlHee, at a slight advance 

 on the cost. 



In August, 18N6, the Director of the Bureau was authorized by 

 jaint resolution of Congress to begin the publication of a series of 

 Bulletins, which were issued in octav^o form and in paper covers, and 

 in -fuly, 1SS8, the continuation of the series was authorized b}' concur- 

 rent resolution. Provision for pul)lishing the Bulletins was omitted 

 fi'om the public printing law of Jan. 1:2, 18!)5, and the issue termi- 

 nated in 1S;»4. Up to that time 24 l>ulletins had b(M'n pul)lished. By 

 concurrent rc'solution in April, 19()(», Congress authorized the resump- 

 tion oF the liuiletin sei'ies in royal octavo form. No. 25, 2<5, and 27 

 wer(> issued under this provision, and in Fe))ruary, 11)03, l)y joint 

 resolution of Congress the octavo foi'm was again resumed. Since 

 then Bulletins 28 and 21> have appearc^d, while no. 30, 31, and 32 are 

 in press. The maximum edition of the Bulletin series is 8,()00 copies, 

 of which the Senate receives 1,5(H), the House of Representatives 3,000, 

 and the Bureau of American P^thnology 3,500 copies. 



Besides the series mentioned there have l)een issued small editions of 

 four Introductions and of eight Miscellaneous Pul)lications, intended 

 wholly or chiefly for the use of collaborators and correspondents. 

 These were not specially authoi'ized by Congress, but as a ule were 

 paid for from the annual appropriations for continuing researches. 



With the exception of the few copies of the puljlications of the 

 Bureau disposed of by the Superintendent of Documents the editions 

 are distributed free of charge. The ([uota allowed the Bureau is dis- 

 tril)uted mainly to lil)raries and institutions of learning and to collal^- 

 orators and others engaged in anthropological research or in instruction. 



Annual Reports 



First annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the secretaiy of 

 the Smithsonian Institution 18T!>-'80 b}' J. W. Powell director 

 [Vignette] Washington (Tovernment Printing Otfice 1881 



Roy. 8"^. XXXV, 003 p., 347 fig. (inch 54 pL), map. Oitt of 

 jn'int. 



Report of the Director. P. xi-xxxiii. 



On the evolution of language, as exhibited in the specialization of the grammatic 

 processes, the differentiation of the parts of speech, and the integration of the 

 sentence; from a study of Indian languages, by J. W. Powell. P. 1-16. 

 Sketch of the mythology of the North American Indians, by J. W. Powell. 



P. 17-56. 

 Wyandot government: a short study of tribal society, by J. W. Powell. P. 



57-69. 

 On limitations to tlie use of some anthropologic data, by J. W. Poweil. P. 71-86. 



