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time to reading proof of Part 2 of the Handbook of American 

 Indians (Bulletin 30). He was assisted in the general edi- 

 torial work of the Bm-eau by Mr. Stanley Searles, detailed 

 for the purpose for about two months from the proof-reading 

 force of the Government Printing Office, and in the prepara- 

 tion for the press of the Handbook of American Indian 

 Languages, by Miss H. A. Andrews, whose work was done 

 under the personal direction of the editor, Dr. Franz Boas. 



The distribution of publications was continued as in 

 former years. Fifteen hundred copies of the Twent3^-fifth 

 Annual Report, and a like number of Bulletins 33 and 35, 

 were distributed to the regular recipients, most of whom 

 sent their own publications in exchange. 



There was greater demand for the publications of the 

 Bureau than diu'ing previous years. The gi'eat increase in 

 the number of public libraries and the multiplication of 

 demands from the pulilic generally resulted in the almost 

 immediate exhaustion of the supply (3,500 copies) allotted 

 to the Bureau. During the year the Bureau received from 

 outside sources a number of the earlier issues of its reports 

 and was thus able to respond to numerous requests from 

 Members of Congress for complete sets, except the Fu'st 

 Annual, the edition of which is entirely exhausted. About 

 1,000 copies of the Twenty-fifth Annual Report, as well as 

 numerous copies of other annuals, bulletins, and separate 

 papers, were distrilDuted in response to special requests, 

 presented largely through Members of Congress. 



LINGUISTIC MANUSCRIPTS 



The archives of the Bm^eau contain 1,659 manuscripts, 

 mainly linguistic. The card catalogue of these manuscripts, 

 begun in the preceding year and completed during the year, 

 comprises more than 14,000 titles, which give as completely 

 as possible the stock, language, dialect, collector, and 

 locality, as well as the character and the date, of the manu- 

 script. ^^^lile it was not possible in every instance to 

 supply all the information called for under these heads, the 

 catalogue is found to meet all ordinary requu'ements of 



