ADMINISTRATIVE REPOKT 27 



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year the bulletin was held in the Printing Office awaiting 

 receipt of the necessary paj)er stock. 



Bulletin 55, Ethnohotany of the Tewa Indians, by Bar- 

 bara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco, Wilfred William Rob- 

 bins, and John Peabody Harrington. Manuscript edited 

 and the work in galley form at the close of the year. 



Bulletin 56, EtJmozoology of the Tewa Indians, by 

 Junius Henderson and John Peabody Harrington. 

 Manuscript edited and the work in page form at the close 

 of the year. 



In accordance with the act of Congress approved Au- 

 gust 23, 1912, the entire stock of publications of the bu- 

 reau, with the exception of a few copies of each available 

 work which have been retained at the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution for special purposes, was transferred to the Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office in October, 1912, for distribution 

 from the office of the superintendent of docmnents on or- 

 der from the bureau. It has been found that this plan of 

 distribution is highly successful, and, of course, much less 

 expensive to the bureau. 



The correspondence relating to publications, of which 

 15,070 were distributed during the year, was conducted 

 under the immediate supervision of Miss Helen Munroe, 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. The distribution of the 

 publications may be simmiarized as follows : 



Series : Copies. 



Report volumes and separate papers 3,895 



Bulletins 11, 040 



Contributions to North American Ethnology 15 



Introductions 7 



Miscellaneous publications 113 



15, 070 



The demand for the Handbook of American Indians 

 (Bulletin 30) continues unabated, by reason of the wide 

 scope of the work, its popular form of treatment, and its 

 iisef ulness to schools. There is an increasing demand for 

 l)ul)lications relating to Indian arts and crafts, and to 

 archeology. The activity in the establishment of organ- 



