ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXXIII 
Regularly, without special request, to working anthro- 
pologists, public libraries, scientific societies, institu- 
tions of learning, and others who are able to contribute 
to the work of the Bureau through publications, ethnologic 
Specimens, or manuscript notes; (2) to others in response 
to special requests, frequently indorsed by members of 
Congress. 
During the year 1,380 copies each of the Nineteenth 
Annual Report and Bulletins 26 and 27 have been sent 
to regular recipients, about one-half of them in the United 
States; and 3,600 miscellaneous volumes and pamphlets 
have been sent in response to about an equal number of 
special requests, more than 200 of which have come 
through Congressmen, about 400 volumes having been 
sent in response. 
EDITORIAL WORK 
The editorial work has been in charge of Mr H.S. 
Wood, assisted during July, August, and a part of Sep- 
tember, 1902, by Dr Elbert J. Benton. This work has 
comprised the proof-reading of the Twentieth Annual 
Report, Bulletin 27, and Bulletin 25, and of the galleys 
of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Annual Reports, 
the preparation of a list of abbreviations for Bulletin 25, 
and the reading in manuscript of the Mayan and Mexican 
papers already mentioned. 
LIBRARY 
Although books and documents relating to ethnology 
were collected to a limited extent by the Geological Sur- 
veys, almost from their inception, the library of the Bureau 
did not have a separate existence until 1882, at which time 
a librarian was first appointed in the United States Geo- 
logical Survey, with which organization the Bureau was 
still domiciled. The systematic acquisition of volumes by 
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