LIST OF PUBLICATIOXS OF TOR BUREAU OF AMERICAN 



ETHNOLOGY 



With Indlx to Authors and Titles 



NOTE 



.j-The publications of the Bureau of American Ethnolo^ consist of 

 Contributions to Xortli American Ethnology, Annual Reports, Bulle- 

 tins. Introductions, and Miscellaneous Publications. 



The series of Contributions, in quarto, was begim in 1877 by the 

 Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rock}' Mountain Region 

 (J. W. Powell, director). Of the earlier numbers, printed under 

 authority of special resolutions of Congress, volumes i, ii (in two 

 I>arts), and iii had been completed when, in the year 1879, the Bureau 

 of Ethnolog}' was organized, wiih J. W. Powell as director. In 

 March, 1881, the publication of volumes vi, ^^I, viii, ix, and x was 

 authorized by concurrent resolution of Congress, but the series was 

 discontinued in 1895, after volumes i to vii and ix had been com- 

 pleted. 



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 1913-1-1. twenty-eight Annual Reports 

 had appeared (the Fourteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Xineteenth, 

 and Twenty-second, each in two parts), in all, thirty-three volumes; 

 the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-First Reports were in press, 

 and the Thirty-second in preparation. 



The present maximum edition of the Annual Reports is 9,850 

 copies. Of these the Senate receives 1,500, the House of Repre- 

 sentatives 3,000, and the Bureau of American Ethnologj' 3,.j00 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. 



1 E.ich Senator, Hepresentative, and Delegate in Congress is entitled to designate one 

 dppository to receive all public documents (see annual reports of the Superintendent of 

 Documents, Government Printing Office). 



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