42 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The general editorial work of the bureau continued in immediate charge of 

 Mr. J. G. Gurley, editor. The editing of Part 2 of Bulletin 30, Handbook of 

 American Indians, was conducted by Mr. Hodge, while the editorial supervision 

 of Bulletin 40, Handbook of American Indian Languages, was in charge of 

 Dr. Boas. At the close of the fiscal year the twenty-seventh annual report 

 was nearly ready for the bindery; more than one-third of Bulletin 40, Part 2, 

 was in type (mostly in pages) ; and Bulletin 47, a Dictionary of the Biloxi and 

 Ofo Languages, by Dorsey and Swanton, was in page form. Some progress 

 had been made in the revision of the galley proof of Bulletin 46, Byington's 

 Choctaw Dictionary, a work requiring the expenditure of considerable time 

 and labor. Much of Mr. Gurley's time during the year was given to the work 

 of editing and proof reading the twenty-seventh annual report and its accom- 

 panying paper, the monograph on the Omaha tribe, by Miss Fletcher and Mr. 

 La Flesche, above referred to. The following publications were issued during 

 the year: 



Bulletin 30. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (F. W. Hodge, 

 editor), Part 2. 



Bulletin 37. Antiquities of Central and Southeastern Missouri (Gerard 

 Fowke). 



Bulletin 40. Handbook of American Indian Languages (Franz Boas, editor), 

 Part 1. 



Bulletin 43. Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent 

 Coast of the Gulf of Mexico (J. R. Swanton). 



Bulletin 44. Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and their 

 Geographical Distribution (Cyrus Thomas and J. R. Swanton). 



Bulletin 45. Chippewa Music (Frances Densmore). 



Bulletin 50. Preliminary Report on a Visit to the Navaho National Monument, 

 Arizona (J. Walter Fewkes). 



Bulletin 51. Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace (J. 

 Walter Fewkes). 



The preparation of the illustrations for the publications of the bureau and the 

 making of photographic portraits of the members of visiting deputations of 

 Indians were in charge of Mr. De Lancey Gill, illustrator. Of the 246 negatives 

 made, 120 comprise portraits of visiting Indians. In addition 372 photographic 

 films, exposed by members of the bureau in connection with their field work, 

 were developed and printed. Photographic prints for publication and exchange 

 were made to the number of 1,469, and 22 drawings for use as illustrations were 

 prepared. Mr. Gill was assisted, as in the past, by Mr. Henry Walther. 



The library of the bureau has continued in the immediate charge of Miss 

 Ella Leary, librarian. During the year that part of the southeastern gallery 

 of the lower main hall of the Smithsonian Building which was vacated by the 

 National Museum, was assigned to the use of the bureau library, and three addi- 

 tional stacks were built, providing shelf room for about 2,500 volumes. Nearly 

 that number of books which had been stored, and consequently made inacces- 

 sible, were placed on the new shelves. The policy carried out from year to year 

 of increasing the library by exchange with other institutions has been con- 

 tinued, and special effort made to complete the collection of serial publica- 

 tions. Especially to be noted is the completion of the sets of publications of 

 the Maine Historical Society and the Archives of Pennsylvania, both rich In 



