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The library has been in imuiediate charge of Miss Ella Leary, who has had 

 the assistance of Mrs. Ella Slauj^hter. The accessioning and cataloguing of 

 the books, pamphlets, and periodicals reeeiA'ed during the year have been kept 

 up to date, and the cataloguing of the publications of scientific societies has 

 been connnenced. Owing to the crowded condition of the library and their 

 questionable place in an ethnological library, about -100 publications relating 

 to natural history, received through exchange, have, been transferred to the 

 National Miiseum. During the year there have been received and recorded 

 398 volumes, 500 pamphlets, and the current issues of upward of 500 period- 

 icals ; 120 volumes have been bound at the Government Printing Office. The 

 library now contains about 12,503 bound volumes, 7,000 pamphlets, and a large 

 number of periodicals bearing on ethnology and kindred topics. Purchase of 

 books for the library has been restricted to those that bear on the subject of 

 anthropology, with special reference to the American Indians, and only indis- 

 pensable works have been obtained by this means. 



CLERICAL WORK. 



The clerical force of the Biu'oau consists of four regular employees — Mr. 

 J. B. Clayton, head clerk ; Miss Eniilie R. Smedes and Miss May S. Clark, ste- 

 nographers ; and Miss Ella Leary, clerk and acting librarian. During the year 

 the compilation of the Handbook of the Indians necessitated the employment of 

 additional clerks with special training in dealing with cyclopedic material and 

 in bibliographic work. In this the services of Mrs. F. S. Nichols, Mrs. Gertrude 

 L. Rogers, and Miss T^aura W. Steever have proA'ed invaluable. 



I'ROrERTY. 



The i)roperiy of the Biu'eau is comprised in seven classes, as follow : Office 

 furniture and appliances ; field outfits ; linguistic and ethnological manuscripts 

 and other docvmients ; photographs, drawings, paintings, and engravings ; a woi'k- 

 ing library ; collections held temporarily by collaborators for use in research, 

 and undistributed residue of the editions of Bureau publications. 



The additions to the proi)erty of the Bureau for the year include a typewriter 

 and a few necessary articles of furniture. The only improvement made in the 

 offices was the changing of the electric-light wiring, which ^^•as done under the 

 direction of the District authorities at a cost of $110.55 

 Respectfully submitted. 



W. H. Holmes, 

 Chief of Bureau. 

 Mr. S. P. Langley, 



Secretary of the Sinithsoiiiau Institution. 



