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W. M. Walker. Besides the seven ethnologists there are numerous 

 others who are not directly connected with the bureau, but who con- 

 tribute or have contributed from time to time to the annual reports. 

 These may be classed as collaborators and contributors. The col- 

 laborator of the bureau is Miss Frances Densmore, whose special field 

 of study is Indian music. The contributors^ are: Martha Warren 

 Beckwith, Franz Boas, Biren Bonnerjea, John G. Bourke, Ruth L. 

 Bimzel, Stewart Culin, Jeremiah Curtin, Frank H. Gushing, WilHam 

 H. Dall, Edwin Thompson Denig, Frances Densmore, J. Owen Dorsey, 

 Jesse Walter Fewkes, Alice G. Fletcher, Gerard Fowke, Thomas Gann, 

 Albert S. Gatschet, Melvin Randolph Gilmore, H. K. Haeberlin, J. P. 

 Harrington, H. W. Henshaw, J. N. B. Hemtt, W. J. Hoffman, E. S. 

 Holden, W. H. Holmes, Ales Hrdhcka, George Hunt, Albert Ernest 

 Jenks, Francis La Flesche, Clay MacCauley, W. J. McGee, Garrick 

 Mallery, Washington Matthews, Truman Michelson, C. Mindeleff, V. 

 Mindeleif, James Mooney, Earl H. Morris, M. A. Muniz, John 

 Murdoch, WilHam Edward Myer, E. W. Nelson, Elsie Clews Parsons, 

 J. C. Pilhng, J. W. Powell, Paul Radin, Stephen R. Riggs, Helen H. 

 Roberts, Walter E. Roth, C. C. Royce, Frank Russell, Ermmnie A. 

 Smith, Frank G. Speck, Elsie Viault Steedman, James Stevenson, 

 Matilda Coxe Stevenson, John R. Swanton, Gladys Tantaquidgeon, 

 James A. Teit, Cyrus Thomas, Lucien M. Turner, Leslie A. White, 

 George P. Winship, and H. C. Yarrow. 



The first annual report for the fiscal year 1879-80 was pubUshed 

 in royal octavo form, and since then one annual report has been 

 pubHshed for each fiscal year, except for the fiscal years 1919-1924, 

 for wliich only one volume was issued (forty-first annual report), and 

 they are all in royal octavo form. Until 1895 the reports were spe- 

 cially authorized by Congress, usually through concurrent resolutions, 

 but since that date they have been issued under authority of the public 

 printing law, approved January 12, 1895. At the close of the fiscal 

 year 1930 forty-sLx annual reports have appeared (the fourteenth, 

 seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twenty-second, and thirty-fifth, 

 each in two parts or volumes), in all 52 volumes. The forty-seventh 

 annual report (included in the index volume) is in the final proof form, 

 and the forty-eighth annual report (general index) is m preparation. 



The present (1931) maximum edition of the annual reports is 4,204, 

 not including a few copies, generally between 100 and 500, ordered by 

 the Superintendent of Documents for sale. Of the 4,204 copies the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology receives 3,500 copies; the remammg 

 704 copies are distributed to Government libraries, etc. The quota 

 (3,500 copies) allowed to the bureau is distributed free of charge, 

 mainly to libraries and institutions of learning, and to collaborators 

 and others engaged m anthropological research or in instruction. 

 Nearly all annual rep orts are out of print. 



a Contributors whose papers nave appeared in the Annual Reports. 



