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data is thus preserved and is available for the use of 
students. Besides the linguistic material many miscel- 
laneous manuscripts and documents have accumulated. 
A few of these are historical, but the majority are of an 
ethnologic character. These manuscripts are kept in two 
fireproof vaults, and recently have been placed under the 
custodianship of Mr J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist. 
PUBLICATIONS 
When the United States Geographical and Geological 
Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region was discontinued 
by act of Congress approved March 3, 1879, it had pub- 
lished two volumes in quarto (1 and 3) of a series of Con- 
tributions to North American Ethnology. The same act 
made an appropriation for completing and preparing for 
publication other volumes of the series. The work was 
put in charge of Major J. W. Powell, previously Director 
of the Rocky Mountain Survey, and the Bureau of Eth- 
nology was organized. The new Bureau continued the 
publication of the Contributions, and in 1880 the Di- 
rector began a series of annual reports of progress to the 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which were 
published, with accompanying scientific papers, in illus- 
trated royal octavo volumes. The printing of the volumes 
of both series was at first specially authorized by Con- 
gressional resolution, but on March 2, 1881, volumes 6 to 
10 of the Contributions were provided for by a single 
resolution. 
Under the joint resolution of August 5, 1886, the Director 
of the Bureau commenced in the following year the pub- 
hieation of a series of bulletins in octavo form, unbound, 
which was continued by authority of the concurrent reso- 
lution of July 28, 1888. The public printing act of Jan- 
uary 12, 1895, which superseded all previous acts and 
resolutions relating to public printing and binding, pro- 
vided for the continuance of the series of annual reports 
