ADMINISTEATIVE REPORT 29 



Number 



Photographs retouched 43 



Drawings made 187 



Portrait negatives of visiting delegations (Pawnee, Sauk and 



Fox, Winnebago, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chippewa) 25 



The complete editions of three colored plates, aggregating 

 20,000 prints, were examined at the Government Printing 

 Office. Illustrative material for three bulletins was com- 

 pleted for reproduction, and progress was made on similar 

 work for the Thirty-third Annual Report. 



LIBRARY 



The library of the bureau continued in charge of Miss Ella 

 Leary, librarian, assisted by Charles B. Newman, messenger 

 boy. During the year 1,078 vohmies were accessioned; of 

 these 214 were purchased, 135 were acquired by gift and 

 exchange, and 729 are volumes of serials which were entered 

 after having been bound for the first time. The library 

 also procured 272 pamphlets, chiefly by gift. The periodicals 

 currently received number about 750, of which 12 are 

 acquired by subscription and 738 by exchange. Among the 

 more noteworthy accessions of books are 20 volumes of 

 Bibles, Testaments, and portions of the Bible in American 

 Indian languages. The library now contains about 21,315 

 volumes, 13,460 pamphlets, and several thousand unbound 

 periodicals. There were sent to the Government Printing 

 Office for binding, 1,338 books, pamphlets, and serial pub- 

 lications, and of these all biit 20 had been returned to the 

 bureau before the close of the year. 



In addition to the cataloguing of current accessions the 

 efforts of the librarian were devoted to making a subject, 

 author, and analytical catalogue of the books represented 

 in the old catalogue by an imperfect author catalogue alone. 

 In this connection special attention was given to linguistic 

 works. From time to time Mrs. F. S. Nichols has assisted 

 in this work, and satisfactory progress has been made. 



Although maintained primarily for the use of the staff, 

 the library is consulted more and more by students not mem- 

 bers of the bureau, as well as by officials of the Library of 

 Congress and of the Government departments. 



