ADMINISTKATIVE REPORT 17 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Mr. DeLancey Gill, illustrator, continued the preparation 

 of the illustrations of the bureau. A summary of the work 

 follows: 



Negatives of ethnologic and archeologic subjects 34 



Negative films from field exposures 15 



Portrait negatives of Indians 5 



Photographic prints 466 



Drawings prepared for book illustrations 41 



Illustrations prepared for engraving (Bureau of American 



Ethnology) 567 



Illustrations prepared for engraving (other Smithsonian 



Institution bureaus) 681 



Engravers' proof read 635 



Edition prints of colored plates examined at Government 



Printing Office 17,000 



On the 1st of February, 1926, the services of a photographer 

 were discontinued and the work was taken over by the 

 photographer of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation 

 with the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



LIBRARY 



The reference library has continued under the immediate 

 care of Miss Ella Leary, librarian, assisted by Mr. Thomas 

 Blackwell. During the year 560 volumes were accessioned, 

 and 200 pamphlets were received and catalogued; also 2,992 

 serials, cliiefly the publications of learned societies, were 

 received and recorded. Of these, 155 were acquired by 

 purchase, 207 by binding of periodicals, and the remainder 

 through gift and exchange. The Ubrary now contains 26,661 

 volumes, 15,712 pamphlets, and several thousand unbound 

 periodicals. During the year there were sent to the bindery 

 207 volumes. In addition to the use of its own library, 

 which is becoming more and more valuable through exchange 

 and by hmited purchase, it was found necessary to draw on 

 the Library of Congress for the loan of about 200 volumes. 

 The purchase of books and periodicals has been restricted 

 to such as relate to the bureau's researches. Although 

 maintained primarily as a reference library for the bureau 



