LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN 
ETHNOLOGY 
NOTE 
The publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology consist of 
Contributions to North American Ethnology, Annual Reports, Bulle- 
tins, Introductions, and Miscellaneous Publications. 
The series of Contributions, in quarto, was begun in 1877 by the 
Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region 
(J. W. Powell, director). Of the earlier numbers, printed under 
authority of special resolutions of Congress, volumes 1, 1m (in two 
parts), and m1 had been completed when, in the year 1879, the Bureau 
of Ethnology was organized, with J. W. Powell as director. In 
March, 1881, the publication of volumes v1, vi, vu, IX, and xX was 
authorized by concurrent resolution of Congress, but the series was 
discontinued in 1895, after volumes I to vir and 1x had been completed. 
The publication of the Annual Reports in royal octavo form began 
with that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. Until 1895 the 
successive reports were each authorized by Congress, usually by con- 
current resolution; since that time they have been published under 
authority of the law providing for the printing and binding and the 
distribution of public documents, approved January 12, 1895. 
At the close of the fiscal year 1910-11, twenty-six Annual Reports 
had appeared (the Fourteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, 
and Twenty-second, each in two parts), in all, thirty-one volumes. 
The Twenty-seventh Report is in the bindery and the Twenty-eighth 
in preparation. 
The present maximum edition of the Annual Reports is 9,850 
copies. Of these the Senate receives 1,500, the House of Represent- 
atives 3,000, and the Bureau of American Ethnology 3,500 copies. 
From the remaining 1,850 copies are drawn the personal copies of 
Senators, Representatives, and Delegates, and 500 copies for distri- 
bution to Government libraries and to designated public depositories ! 
throughout the country. The remainder are sold by the Superin- 
tendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, at a slight 
advance on the cost. 
In August, 1886, the director of the bureau was authorized by 
joint resolution of Congress to begin the publication of a series of 
1Each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress is entitled to designate one depository to 
receive all public documents (see annual reports of the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing 
Oflice) 
