ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 15 



LIBRARY 



The reference library has continued under the care of 

 Miss Ella Leary, librarian, assisted by Mr. Thomas Black- 

 well. The library consists of 28,512 volumes, about 16,377 

 pamphlets, and several thousand unbound periodicals. 

 During the year 591 books were accessioned, of which 112 

 were acquired by purchase and 479 by gift and exchange ; 

 also 200 pamphlets and 4,100 serials, chiefly the publica- 

 tions of learned societies, were received and recorded, of 

 which only 112 were obtained by purchase, the remainder 

 being received through exchange. The catalogue was in- 

 creased by the addition of 1,400 cards. Many books were 

 loaned to other libraries in Washington. In addition to 

 the constant drafts on the library of the bureau, requisi- 

 tion was made on the Library of Congress during the year 

 for an aggregate of 200 volumes for official use, and in turn 

 the bureau library was frequently consulted by officers of 

 other Government establishments, as well as by students 

 not connected with the Smithsonian Institution. 



While many volumes are still without binding, the con- 

 dition of the library in this respect has greatly improved 

 during the last few years ; 431 volumes were bound during 

 the year. 



COLLECTIONS 



100,592. Several thousand anthropological specimens and small col- 

 lections of mammals, plants, mollusks, and minerals from various 

 localities in Alaska, secured by Henry B. Collins, jr., during 1928. 

 (3,730 specimens.) 



102.768. Small collection of archeological objects gathered by Charles 

 T. Earle at an aboriginal camp site at Shaws Point, Fla. (26 

 specimens.) 



102.769. Two textile fragments collected in the Canyon de Chelly, 

 Ariz., by Dr. W. H. Spinks. (2 specimens.) 



102,896. Collection of 61 ethnological specimens secured from the 

 Hupa Indians of California by E. G. Johnson. (61 specimens.) 



103,344. Two specimens of sheet mica collected from unidentified 

 mounds in Ohio by the late Dr. E. H. Davis and presented to the 

 bureau by Miss Betsey B. Davis. (2 specimens.) 



