XLII BUREATT OB" AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



negatives (glass and film), 2,050 prints, and a number of 

 drawings were added to the collection of illustrative material, 

 and a proportionate quantity of illustrative material was used 

 in the reports. Most of the collections of the year have gone 

 directl}' to the United States National Museum; some, like 

 those of Mr Moonev, are still in use. The library has main- 

 tained a steady growth, chiefly through exchanges, parth' by 

 the purchase of current ethnologic books and early records 

 pertaining to the aborigines. The additions of the year com- 

 prise about 895 books and 160 pamphlets, raising the con- 

 tents of the library to 11,339 books and 2,500 pamphlets. 

 The number of back reports was reduced through the con- 

 stantly increasing public demands for ethnologic literature. 

 Nearly all of these documents are now out of print. During 

 the first half of the fiscal year Mr J. Julius Lund continued in 

 charge of the property as custodian. After Mr Lund's resig- 

 nation Mr Frank M. Barnett was appointed to this position. 

 Miss Jessie E. Thomas remains in immediate charge of the 

 library ; Miss Ella Leary of the distribution of documents. 



PUBLICATIONS 



At the beginning of the year Mr Herbert S. Wood had 

 charge of the editorial work; subsequently he was furloughed 

 for several months, when Dr Albert E. Jenks assumed edito- 

 rial duties in connection with his researches; in June Mr 

 Wood resumed his editorial capacity, and toward the end of 

 May Mr Elbert J. Benton was temporarily added to the corps 

 as editorial assistant. The second part of the Eighteenth 

 Report was delivered from the bindery on January 7, and 

 was immediately distributed; Bulletin 26 was delivered on 

 March 11, and, after brief holding in the hope that the Nine- 

 teenth Report might be distributed at the same time, was sent 

 out to the exchanges about the end of the year; separate 

 copies of the papers composing the Nineteenth Report were 

 delivered in March, but the binding of the volumes was 

 delayed by reason of unusual conditions in the Printing 

 Office, and the edition had not been delivered at the end of 

 the year. On January 29 the Twentieth Annual Report was 



