50 EEPOKT OF THE ACTING SECRETARY. 



The study of the Indian delegations visiting Washington during the year was 

 continued as lieretofoie. One hundred and forty-two portrait negatives were 

 made and measurements and casts were obtained in a number of cases. 



Mr. Jolm P. Sanborn, jr., who was probationally appointed on April 6, 1905, 

 as editor and compiler, was permanently appointed October 0, but on October 

 19 he was, at his own request, indefinitely furloughed. On February 16, 1906, 

 Mr. Joseph G. Gurley was probationally appointed as editor through certifica- 

 tion by the Civil Service Commission. The Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth 

 Annual Reports and Bulletins 31 and 32 were read and prepared for the press, 

 and proof reading of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth reports, and of Bul- 

 letins 30, 31, and 32 further occupied the attention of the editor, although Mr. 

 Hodge and the various collaborators on Bulletin .30 (the Handbook of -the 

 Indians) assumed the main burden of the reading of that work. 



The illustrations \\-ork, including photography, continued in charge of Mr. 

 Delancey Gill, who was assisted, as heretofore, by Mr. H. Walther. The num- 

 ber of illustrations prepared for the reports was 852, and the whole number 

 transmitted to the printer was 1,023. 



During the year the Twenty- fifth and Twenty-sixth Annual Reports were sub- 

 mitted to the Secretary and the Twenty-fifth was transmitted to the Public 

 Printer, the Twenty-sixth being retained in the Bureau pending the completion 

 of the two next preceding volumes. Bulletin 30, submitted at the beginning 

 of the year, is in press, and Bulletin 32 is in the bindery, while Bulletin 31 

 was transmitted to the printer toward the close of the year. The distribution 

 of publications was continued as in former years. Bulletin 28 was published 

 in October, and Bulletin 29 and the Twenty-third Annual Report in December. 



The library remained in charge of Miss Ella Leary, who completed the work 

 of accessioning and cataloguing the books, pamphlets, and periodicals up to 

 date. Owing to the crowded condition of the library, about 600 publications, 

 chiefly periodicals, received by gift or through exchange, but not pertaining to 

 the woi'k of the Bureau, were transferred to the library of the National Mu- 

 seum. During the year there were received and recorded 306 volumes, 900 

 pamphlets, and the current issues of upward of 500 periodicals. One hundred 

 and fifty volumes were bound at the Government Printing Office. The library 

 now contains 12,858 bound volumes, 9,000 pamphlets, and a large number of 

 periodicals which relate to anthropology and kindred topics. 



The clerical force of the Bureau consists of five regular employees : Mr. J. B. 

 Clayton, head clerk ; Miss Emilie R. Smedes and Miss May S. Clark, stenog- 

 raphers; Miss Ella Leary, clerk and acting librarian, and Mrs. Frances S. 

 Nichols, typewriter. During the year Mr. William P. Bartel, messenger, was 

 promoted to a clerkship and subsequently transferred to the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission. 



The property of the Bureau is comprised in seven classes : Office furniture 

 and appliances; field outfits; linguistic and ethnological manuscripts and other 

 documents ; photographs, drawings, paintings, and engravings ; a working 

 library ; collections held temporarily by collal)orators for use in research, and 

 the undistributed residue of the editions of Bureau publications. 



Respectfully submitted. 



W. H. Holmes. Chief. 



Mr. Richard Rathoun, 



Acting Secretary of the Smithfsonian Institution. 



