ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT PALL 
PROPERTY 
Furniture was purchased to the amount of $196.25; the 
cost of typewriting machines was $206, and of a camera 
$10.50, making a total of $412.75 expended for furniture and 
apparatus. On the whole the furniture of the bureau is in 
good condition, but there are a few unserviceable pieces that 
should be replaced, while need of a few filing cases for current 
notes and manuscripts is felt. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
~-Quarters.—One of the rooms on the third floor of the north 
tower of the Smithsonian building, occupied by the bureau, 
was painted, and the electric lighting of three rooms im- 
proved. 
Personnel.—The only change in the personnel of the 
bureau was the appointment of Miss Ora A. Sowersby, 
stenographer and typewriter, on February 14, 1917, to 
succeed Miss Lana V. Schelski, transferred. A temporary 
laborer was employed from time to time when required. 
Clerical—The correspondence and other clerical work 
of the office, including the copying of manuscripts, has been 
conducted with the aid of Miss Florence M. Poast, clerk to 
the ethnologist in charge; Miss May 8. Clark, and Mrs. 
Frances 8S. Nichols. Miss Sowersby was assigned to the 
division of publications of the Smithsonian Institution for 
duty in connection with correspondence arising from the 
distribution of the bureau’s publications. 
Respectfully submitted. 
F. W. Hopes, 
Ethnologist-in-Charge. 
Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
