ADVERTISEMENT 



The work of the Hiireaii of Aiiicric;!!! Ethnolo«;y is loiulurted under act of Con- 

 gress "for continuing ethnologic researches among the American Indians under the 

 direction of the Smithsonian Institution.'' 



Two series of publications have been issued liy tlie Bureau under authority of Con- 

 gress, viz, annual reports ami bulletins. The annual reports were hitherto author- 

 ized by concurrent resolutifjn from time to time, and were published for the use of 

 Congress and the Bureau. The present report is published by authority of section 73 

 of the act of Congress approved January 12. 189.5, entitled "An act providing for the 

 jiublic printing and binding and the distribution of public documents." The publi- 

 cation of the series of bulletins was authorized by concurrent resolution first in 1886, 

 and more definitely in 1888, and twenty-four numbers of thi.s series have been issued 

 for the iisc of Congress and the Bureau. In addition, the Bureau has supervised the 

 publication of a series of i|narto volumes bearing the title, " C'ontriliutions to \orth 

 American Ethnology," begun in 1877 by the United States Geogra])hical Survey of 

 the Rocky Mountain Region. This series comprises Volumes I to VII and IX. 



The above publications are distributed jirimarily by Congress, and the portions of 

 the editions printed for the Bureau are used for exchange with libraries and scien- 

 tific. and educational institutions and with special investigators in anthropology who 

 send their own publications regularly to the Bureau. 



The exchange list of the Bureau is large, and the product of the exchange forms 

 a valuable ethnologic library independent of the general library of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. This library is in constant use by the Bureau collaborators, as well as 

 by other anthropologists resident in or visiting AVashington. 



Most of the vcduines of the annual reports and all of the volumes of the "Contri- 

 butions to North American Ethnology" are out of print. 



Exchanges and other contributions to the Bureau should be addressed. 

 Bureau of American Ethnolm/!/, 



TVushingtoti, D. C, 



V. S. A. 



