XVIII ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
necessary to verify or correct some particulars in treatises 
otherwise ready for the printer, and, indeed, in some cases, 
partly printed. 
Collaboration is constantly invited from competent explorers 
and writers who are not and do not desire to be officially con- 
nected with the Bureau. Some valuable results have been 
obtained and utilized through special applications to individ- 
uals and through voluntary contributions induced by interest 
in the publications thus far made. The liberality of Congress, 
it is hoped, will soon allow of the publication of bulletins espe- 
cially designed to make known without delay the discoveries 
and deductions of the scholars throughout the world who may 
thus co-operate with. the Bureau. By this means an effective 
impulse will be given to their researches. 
In order to set forth the operations of the Bureau with suf- 
ficient detail, the subject will be divided, as heretofore, into 
three principal parts, the first relating to the publications 
issued, the second to the work prosecuted in the field, and the 
third to the office work, this last being to a large extent the 
preparation for publication of the results of field work, with the 
corrections and additions obtained from the literature of the 
subject and by correspondence. 
PUBLICATIONS. 
The Second and Third Annual Reports were issued and dis- 
tributed during the year. 
The Second Annual Report contained pp. i-xxxvil, 1-477, 77 
plates, 403 figures, and 2 maps. The papers accompanying 
the official statement of the Director are as follows: 
Zuni Fetiches, by Frank H. Cushing; pp. 3-45, plates I-XI, figures 1-3. 
Myths of the Iroquois, by Erminnie A. Smith; pp. 47-116, plates XII-XYV. 
Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley, by Henry W. Henshaw ; 
pp. 117-166, figures 4-35. 
Navajo Silversmiths, by Dr. Washington Matthews, U. 8. A.; pp. 167-178, plates 
XVI-XX. 
Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans, by William H. Holmes; pp. 179-305, plates 
XXI-LXXVII. 
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections obtained from the Indians of New Mexico 
and Arizona in 1879, by James Stevenson; pp. 3807-422, figures 347-697, and 1 map. 
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections obtained from the Indians of New Mexico 
in 1880, by Jamvs Stevenson; pp. 423-465, figures 698-714, and 1 map. 
