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volumes, about 11,600 pamphlets, aud several thousand unbound periodicals. 

 Although maintained primarily as a reference library for the Bureau's staff, 

 its value is becoming more and more known to students not connected with the 

 Smithsonian Institution, who make constant use of it. During the year the 

 library was used also by officers of the executive departments and the Library of 

 Congress. 



MANUSCRIPTS. 



During the first half of the fiscal year the manuscripts were under the custo- 

 dianship of Mr. J. B. Clayton, and on his indefinite furlough at the close of 

 1909 they were placed in charge of Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, as previously noted. 

 Nineteen important manuscripts were acquired during the year, of which seven 

 are devoted to Chippewa music and are accompanied with the original grapho- 

 phone records, five relate to the history of the Indians, and seven pertain to 

 Indian linguistics. This enumeration does not include the manuscript contri- 

 butions to the Handbook of American Indians and the Handbook of American 

 Indian Languages, nor the manuscripts submitted for publication by the members 

 of the Bureau's regular staff. 



REMOVAL OF OFFICES. 



Quarters in the Smithsonian building having been assigned by the Secretary 

 for the use of the Bureau, and funds having been provided by the sundry civil 

 act for the removal of the Bureau's property, the work of transfer was com- 

 menced on December 10, 1909, by removing the library from the third floor of 

 the Adams Building, 1333 F street NW., to the eastern gallery of the bird hall 

 on the main floor of the Smithsonian building. The task was made difficult 

 owing to the necessity of removing the old stacks and the books at the same 

 time, but order was fairly established in about a fortnight and the library again 

 put in service. Not only is more space for the growing library afforded by the 

 new quarters, but increased light and facilities for research make the new 

 library far superior to the old. The northern half of the gallery was made more 

 attractive by painting and by carpeting with linoleum. It is yet lacking in neces- 

 sary space, but this difficulty will be overcome when that part of the south- 

 eastern gallery still occupied by the National Museum is vacated. 



The offices and photographic laboratory of the Bureau were removed between 

 December 20 and 31, the former to the second, third, and fourth floors of the 

 north tower of the Smithsonian building and one room (that occupied by the 

 ethnologist- in-charge) on the third floor of the northeastern range; the labo- 

 ratory to one of the galleries of the old National Museum building, while the 

 stock of publications was given space on the fourth floor of the south tower. 

 Although the quarters of the Bureau are now somewhat scattered, the facilities 

 for work are far superior to those with which the Bureau in its rented offices 

 was obliged to contend, and there is less danger of loss by fire. The cost of the 

 removal, including the taking down and rebuilding of the library bookcases, 

 necessary painting of walls and woodwork, linoleum floor covering, and electric 

 wiring and fixtures, aggregated $1,000, the sum appropriated for the purpose. 



In addition to the books and manuscripts already referred to, the property of 

 the Bureau consists of a moderate amount of inexpensive office furniture, 

 chiefly desks, chairs, filing cases, and tables, as well as photographic negatives, 

 apparatus, and supplies, typewriters, phonographs, stationery, and the undis- 

 tributed stock of its publications. The removal of the Bureau and the assign- 



