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and subsequently by Charles B. Newman, messenger boy. 

 During the year 997 books were accessioned, but of this 

 number only 448 were newly acquired, the remainder being 

 represented by the binding and by entry on the records of 

 serial publications that had been in possession of the bureau 

 for some time. Of these accessions 138 voliuues were 

 acquired by purchase and 310 by gift or through exchange. 

 The serial publications currently received number about 700, 

 of which only 17 are obtained by subscription, the remainder 

 l^eing received by exchange of the bureau's reports and 

 bulletins. Of pamphlets, 294 were acquired. The number 

 of volumes bound was 678. The library contained 20,237 

 volumes, 13,188 pamphlets, and several thousand vmbound 

 periodicals at the close of the year. The number of books 

 borrowed from the Library of Congress for the use of the 

 staff of the bureau in prosecuting their researches was about 

 450. 



The new steel bookstacks in the eastern end of the main 

 hall of the Smithsonian building, referred to in the last 

 annual report, were finished and placed at the disposal of the 

 bureau in August, when the work of reinstallation of the 

 library was undertaken by the librarian and promptly 

 carried to completion. The facilities afforded by the new 

 stacks are an improvement over those of the old library 

 equipment, while safety is greatly increased. 



COLLECTIONS 



The following collections were acquired by the bureau or 

 by members of its staff and transferred to the National 

 Museum, as required by law : 



Model of Cherokee packing basket from the East Cherokee lleserva- 

 tion, Swaia County, N. C. Collected by James Mooney, Bureau 

 of American Ethnology. (57G99.) 



179 archeological objects from the lower Mimbres Valley and an 

 earthenware vase from Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. 

 Collected b}' Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology. (57777.) 



Three stone figurines from the Tewa Indians of New Mexico. Col- 

 lected by Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 (58129.) 

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