26 BUREAU OF AMEBICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



based the article "Hopi Katcinas" in the Twenty-first 

 Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



During the year 430 books were accessioned, of which 148 

 were acquired by purchase, 84 by binding periodicals, and 

 198 by gifts and exchanges. The periodicals cuiTently 

 received number about 760, of which 16 were received by 

 subscription and 744 by gifts and exchange. We have also 

 received 200 pamphlets, giving us at the close of the year a 

 working Ubrary of 22,180 volumes, about 14,048 pamphlets, 

 and several thousand periodicals. 



During the year there were sent to the bindery 142 volumes, 

 and 84 bound volumes were received. 



In continuance of the policy of increasing the library by 

 exchange and filling in incomplete sets, letters were written 

 for new exchanges and for completing series already in the 

 library. We have been able to secure by this means many 

 valuable and important acquisitions. 



In addition to the regular routine of cataloguing, classi- 

 fication, ordering from book dealers, making up for binding, 

 and keeping the serial and accession records, the efforts of the 

 librarian were devoted to making a subject, author, and 

 analytical catalogue of books that are represented in the old 

 catalogue under the author only. 



During the year there was an increasing number of students 

 not connected with the Smithsonian Institution who found 

 the library of service in seeking volumes not obtainable in 

 other libraries of the city. The library was used also by the 

 Library of Congress and officers of the executive depart- 

 ments, and out-of-town students have called upon the library 

 for loans during the year. 



In addition to the use of its own library it was found neces- 

 sary to draw on the Library of Congress from time to time for 

 loan of about 450 volumes. Numerous typewritten biblio- 

 graphic lists have been made for correspondents of the bureau 

 and the Smithsonian Institution. 



The Monthly Bulletin for the use of the bureau staff has 

 been continued throughout the year. 



