64 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, lUU. 



resenting 17 tribes, 79 photographic exposures were made ; 92 negatives 

 of ethnologic subjects were required for reproduction as illustrations; 

 512 negatives made by the members of the staff in the field Avere 

 developed and 381 prints made therefrom; 105 photographs were 

 printed for presentation to Indians and (527 for publication, exchange, 

 and special distribution. In addition to the photographic work, 

 Avhich constitutes the major part of the illustrative material required 

 by the bureau, 54 drawings were made for reproduction. 



The series of photogi-aphs, representing 55 tribes, which had been 

 exhibited by the New York Public Library and the Public Library 

 Commission of Indiana, was borrowed in June by the Providence 

 Public Library for a similar purpose. 



LIBRARY. 



The reference library of the bureau, which consists of 19,240 books, 

 about 12,894 pamphlets, and several thousand unbound periodicals, has 

 been in continuous charge of Miss Ella Leary, librarian, assisted by 

 Mrs. Ella Slaughter. During the year 708 books were accessioned, of 

 which 143 were acquired by purchase and 137 by gift and exchange, 

 the remaining 428 being represented by volumes of serials that 

 hitherto had been neither bound nor recorded. The periodicals cur- 

 rently received numbered 629, of which only 16 were obtained by pur- 

 chase, the remainder being received through exchange. Of pamphlets, 

 150 were acquired. During the year 1,195 volumes were sent to the 

 bindery and of these 695 were bound and returned to the bureau. 



The endeavor to supply deficiencies in the sets of publications of 

 institutions of learning has continued Avithout remission. Among 

 the more important accessions of this kind during the year were 

 Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde zu Berlin, 20 volumes; 

 Instituto Geografico Argentino, Boletin, 10 volumes ; and Konigliches 

 Museum fiir Volkerkunde, Veroffentlichungen, 8 volumes. 



The librarian has prepared a monthly bulletin of accessions for the 

 use of the staff, and has furnished information and compiled biblio- 

 graphic notes for the use of correspondents. In addition to the con- 

 stant drafts on the library of the bureau requisition was made on the 

 Library of Congress during the year for an aggregate of 300 volumes 

 for official use, and in turn the bureau library was frequently con- 

 sulted by officers of other Government establishments. 



An appropriation having been made by Congress, in behalf of the 

 Institution, for installing modern steel bookstacks in the eastern 

 end of the large exhibition hall on the first floor of the Smithsonian 

 building, and provision having been made for affording the proposed 

 increased facilities to the library of the bureau, which for four and 

 a half years had been installed in the eastern galleries of the hall 

 mentioned, the books therein were removed in February to the gallery 



