PART 2. LIST OF BULLETINS 1-100 AND INDEX TO 

 AUTHORS AND TITLES 



INTRODUCTION 



The Bureau of [American] Ethnology was organized in 1879, and 

 was phiced by Congress under the supervision of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. Its publications consist of Contributions to North Amer- 

 ican Ethnology, Annual Reports, Bulletins, Introductions, and 

 Miscellaneous Publications. 



In August 1886, the director of the Bureau was authorized by joint 

 resolution of Congress to begin the publication of a series of bulletins, 

 which were issued in octavo form and in paper covers, and in July 

 1888 the continuation of the series was authorized by concurrent reso- 

 lution. The issue terminated in 1894, and provision for publishing 

 the bulletins was omitted from the public printing law of January 12, 

 1895. Up to that time 24 bulletins had been published, each under 

 a special title and without any serial number.^ From 1895 to 1900 

 no bulletins were published. 



In 1900 the Congress authorized the resumption of publication in 

 bulletin form by a concurrent resolution, adopted by the House of 

 Representatives on April 7, and by the Senate on April 27. This 

 resolution is as follows : 



Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring), That 

 there be printed at the Government Printing Office eight thousand copies of 

 any matter furnished by the Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 relating to researches and discoveries connected with the study of American 

 aborigines, the same to be issued as bulletins uniform with the annual reports, 

 one thousand five hundred of which shall be for the use of the Senate, three 

 thousand for the House of Representatives, and three thousand five hundred 

 for distribution by the Bureau. 



Pursuant to this authority. Bulletins 25, 26, and 27 were issued 

 in royal octavo form, and in February 1903, by joint resolution of 

 Congress, the octavo form was again resumed. From that time to 

 1931, Bulletins 28, 29, 30 (in two parts 2), 31-39, 40 (in two parts), 



1 These bulletins have been indexed in the present volume as Bulletins 1-24. 



* By concurrent resolution of Congress in August 1912, a reprint of Bulletin 30 was 

 ordered in an edition of 6,500 copies, of which 4,000 were for the use of the House of 

 Representatives, 2,000 for the use of the Senate, and 500 for the use of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. 



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