REPORT OP THE SECRETARY. 55 



DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



The distribution of the publications has been continued under the 

 immediate charge of Miss Helen Munroe, assisted in the opening 

 months of the year by Miss Ora A. Sowersby, stenographer and type- 

 writer, and later by Miss Emma B. Powers, Miss Sowersby having 

 been transferred to the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Publications were distributed as follows : 



Copies. 



Annual reports and separates 1, 766 



Bulletins and separates 5, 460 



•Contributions to North American Ethnology (volumes and separates) ' 7 



Introductions 5 



Miscellaneous publications 106 



Total 7, 344 



As compared with the fiscal year 1917, there was a decrease of 

 4,640 in the total number of publications distributed. This was due 

 to the fact that during the fiscal year 1917 four publications were 

 sent out to the mailing list, whereas in the fiscal year 1918 only Bul- 

 letin 63 was distributed to the list. Twenty addresses have been 

 added to the mailing list during the year and 15 dropped, making a 

 net increase of 5. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Mr. De Lancey Gill, with the assistance of Mr. Albert E. Sweeney, 

 continued the preparation of the illustrations required for the pub- 

 lications of the bureau and devoted the usual attention to photo- 

 graphing visiting Indians. A summary of this work is as follows : 



Negatives of ethnologic and archeologic subjects^ 271 



Photographic prints for distribution and office use 525 



Photostat prints from books and manuscripts 300 



Mounts used 800 



Drawings and photographs prepared for publication as illustrations 517 



Illustration proofs read 400 



Portrait negatives of visiting Indians 15 



LIBRARY. 



The reference library' of the bureau continued in the immediate 

 care of Miss Ella Leary, assisted by Mr. Charles B. Newman. 



There was presented to the library by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes the 

 Codex Hopiensis, consisting of three bound volumes of colored 

 pictures of Hopi Katcinas made by a Hopi Indian in 1900. This 

 is the material on which was based the article " Hopi Katcinas " in 

 the Twenty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology. 



During the year 430 books were accessioned, of which 148 were 

 acquired by purchase, 84 by binding periodicals, and 198 by gifts and 



