SmirHsonian Institution, Bureau or Erunovoey, 
Washington, D. C., July, 1880. 
Prof. Spencer F. Barrp, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, D. C.: 
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the first annual 
report of the operations of the Bureau of Ethnology. 
By act of Congress, an appropriation was made to continue 
researches in North American anthropology, the general direc- 
tion of which was confided to yourself. As chief executive 
officer of the Smithsonian Institution, you entrusted to me the 
immediate control of the affairs of the Bureau. This report, 
with its appended papers, is designed to exhibit the methods 
and results of my administration of this trust. 
If any measure 6f success has been attained, it is largely due 
to general instructions received from yourself and the advice 
you have ever patiently given me on all matters of importance. 
I am indebted to my assistants, whose labors are delineated 
in the report, for their industry, hearty co-operation, and en- 
thusiastic love of the science. Only through their zeal have 
your plans been executed. 
Much assistance has been rendered the Bureau by a large 
body of scientific men engaged in the study of anthropology, 
some of whose names have been mentioned in the report and 
accompanying papers, and others will be put on record when 
the subject-matter of their writings is fully published. 
I am, with respect, your obedient servant, 
J. W. POWELL. 
IlI-lV 
BNITHSONIAZ 
Skw YD AI 
LIBRARIES 
