ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXIX 



PUBLICATIONS 



The distribution of publications has continued as in formei" 

 years. The great increase in the number of Hbraries in the 

 countiy and the mult iphcat ion of demands from the public 

 generally have resulted in an almost immediate exhaustion 

 of the quota of vohmies allotted to the Bureau, few copies of 

 any of the reports remaining six months after the date 

 of issue. Part II of the Twenty-second Annual Report 

 was issued in January. During the j^ear 1,591 copies of the 

 Twent}'-first and Twenty-second Annual Reports werie sent 

 to regular recipients, and 2,000 volumes and pamphlets were 

 ti-ansmitted in response to special requests, presented largely 

 l)y Members of Congress. The proof reading of the Twenty- 

 third Annual Report and of Bulletin 28 was practically com- 

 pleted at the close of the year, and it is expected that the 

 presswork of these publications will soon be begun. The 

 Twenty-foui'th Annual Report was in the hands of the printer 

 before the close of the .year, and Bulletins 29 and 30, the latter 

 being the Handbook of American Indians, were ready to be 

 submitted to the Secretary on June 30, 1905, while the 

 manuscript of the Twenty-fifth Annual Report was com- 

 pleted, with the exception of a small number of illustrations. 



EDITORIAL WORK 



The editorial work of the year has presented features of 

 exceptional difficulty, on account of the large number of 

 papers dealing with linguistics and technical subjects. The 

 Bureau has had the services of Mr Frank Huntington for 

 the greater part of the year, and Mr J. P. Sanborn, jr, received 

 a probational appointment as editor in May. The reading 

 of the proofs of Mrs Stevenson's monograph on the Zuni 

 Indians for the Twenty-third Annual Report, a work of 

 much technical difficulty, was intrusted mainh' to Mr E. G. 

 Farrell. 



