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staff, its value is becoming better known to students not 

 connected with the Smithsonian Institution, who make 

 frequent use of it. During the year the Ubrary was used 

 also by officers of the executive departments and the Library 

 of Congress. The library is greatly indebted to many 

 private individuals for numerous donations of pubUcations. 

 Mention may be made of a collection given by Mrs. Safford, 

 consisting of 50 books and one manuscript belonging to 

 her husband, the late Dr. W. E. Safford. 



During the year the cataloguing has been carried on as 

 new accessions were acquired and good progress was made 

 in cataloguing ethnologic and related articles in the earlier 

 serials. 



The Ubrary, among other respresentative libraries, is 

 cooperating with the Library of Congress in checking up 

 the "Union List of Serials of the United States and Canada," 

 compiled by the H. W. Wilson Co. This necessitates the 

 checking up of our entire collection of periodicals. Con- 

 siderable time has been given to this work. 



COLLECTIONS 



88232. Two plaster casts made by Mr. Egberts of an amulet sent 



to the bureau for identification by W. W. C. Dunlop, 



Codrington College, Barbados, B. W. L 

 90380. Two chert rejects, 4 potsherds, and 1 smaU arrow point 



found in a gravel pit about one-half mile west of the Grand 



River, near Prior, Olda., and presented to the bureau by 



Grant Foreman. 

 90604. Archeological and skeletal material collected by H. B. 



Collins, Jr., at various localities in Mississippi during 1925. 



(78 specimens.) 

 90652. Collection of 44 archeological specimens from graves at 



Vantage Ferry, Wash., purchased by the bureau from 



Earle 0. Roberts. 

 90813. Collection of 8 stone and shell implements found by Charles 



T. Earle on the beach at Shaw's Point, Fla., and presented 



by him to the bureau. 

 91825. Collection of about 19 lots of human skeletal material col- 

 lected in Florida by Dr. J. W. Gidley. 

 92317. Archeological specimens collected in Louisiana by Gerard 



Fowke. (108 specimens.) 



