4. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 49 
bulletins, which were issued in octavo form and in paper covers, and 
in July, 1888, the continuation of the series was authorized by coneur- 
rent resolution. Provision for publishing the bulletins was omitted 
from the public printing law of Jan. 12, 1895, and the issue termi- 
nated in 1894. Up to that time 24 bulletins had been published. By 
concurrent resolution in April, 1900, Congress authorized the resump- 
tion of the Bulletin series in royal octavo form. Nos. 25, 26, and 27 
were issued under this provision, and in February, 1903, by joimt 
resolution of Congress the octavo form was again resumed. Since 
then bulletins 28, 29, 30 (in two parts), 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 
38, 39, 40 (part 1), 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, and 51 have appeared, 
while Nos. 40 (part 2), 46, and 47 are in press. The maximum edi- 
tion of the Bulletin series is 9,850 copies, of which the Senate receives — 
1,500, the House of Representatives 3,000, and the Bureau of Ameri- 
can Ethnology 3,500 copies. The remaining 1,850 copies are dis- 
tributed by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing 
Office. Of these about 500 copies are sent to designated libraries; 
the rest are held by him for sale at a price slightly above cost. 
Besides the series mentioned there have been issued small editions 
of four Introductions and of eight Miscellaneous Publications, 
intended wholly or chiefly for the use of collaborators and corre- 
spondents. These were not specially authorized by Congress, but 
as a rule were paid for from the annual appropriations for continuing 
researches. : 
With the exception of the few copies of the publications of the 
bureau disposed of by the Superintendent of Documents the editions 
are distributed free of charge. The quota allowed the bureau is 
distributed mainly to libraries and institutions of learning and to 
collaborators and others engaged in anthropological research or 
instruction. 
ANNUAL REPORTS 
First annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution 1879-80 by J. W. Powell director — 
[Vignette] Washington Government Printing Office 1881 
Roy. 8°. xxxv, 603 p., 347 fig. Gnecl. 54 pl.), map. Oud of promt. 
Report of the Director. P. xi-xxxm. 
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 the use of some anthropologic data, by J. W. Powell. P. 71-86. 
A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American 
Indians, ao Dr BEG: Yarrow, act. asst. surg., U.S. Army. ‘P.87-203, fig - tae 
mathematics, U.S. Naval Observatory. 1 205-245, fig. 49- 60. 
