ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXXI 
only. At that time there had been published or were in 
course of publication 8 volumes of Contributions to North 
American Ethnology, numbered 1 to 7 and 9, 24 bulletins, 
and 13 annual reports. 
From 1895 to 1900 the Bureau issued the series of 
annual reports only, but on April 7 of the latter year 
Congress passed a concurrent resolution authorizing the 
commencement of a new series of bulletins in royal 
octavo, uniform with the annual reports. Three num- 
bers of this series (25 to 27) have been issued. The pres- 
ent edition of both annual reports and bulletins is 9,682 
copies, of which the Senate receives 1,500, the House 
3,000, and the Bureau 3,500 (of which 500 are distributed 
by the Smithsonian Institution). From the remaining 
1,682 are drawn the personal copies of the members of 
Congress, those for the Library of Congress and a few 
other Government libraries, and those sold by the Super- 
intendent of Documents and distributed by him to various 
designated libraries throughout the country. 
Besides the series mentioned there have been issued 
small editions of several miscellaneous publications, 
intended chiefly or wholly for the use of collaborators 
and correspondents. These comprise three introductions 
to the study of aboriginal activities (one having been 
published previously by the Rocky Mountain Survey) ; a 
collection of Indian gesture signs; a set of proof-sheets 
of a bibliography of North American languages; a pro- 
visional list of the principal North American tribes, with 
synonyms; and two samples of style for the Handbook 
of American Indians that is now in preparation. 
There have been issued up to the present time 19 an- 
nual reports, of which 4 are in 2 parts; 27 bulletins, of 
which 24 are in octavo, unbound, and 3 in royal octavo, 
bound; 8 volumes of Contributions, of which one is in 2 
parts; 4 introductions to the study of aboriginal activities, 
and 6 miscellaneous pamphlets; making 69 volumes and 
pamphlets in all. The papers published have covered 
the entire range of aboriginal characters, activities, and 
