54 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



the proof reading on Bulletins 33 and 35 has progressed so far that they can 

 be put on the press at an early day. 



For about three months the Bureau has had the efficient services of Mr. 

 Stanley Searles, who was courteously detailed for the purpose from the proof 

 reading force of the Government Printing Office. The editor has assisted to 

 some extent in the proof-reading of the Handbook of American Indians, Bulletin 

 30. which is in charge of Mr. F. W. Hodge. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



During the year the Twenty-sixth Annual Report and Bulletins 33, 34, 35, 

 snd 36 were forwarded to the Public Printer. Bulletins 31 and 32 were pub- 

 lished in July. Part I of the Handbook of American Indians (Bulletin 30) 

 appeared in March and the Twenty-fourth Annual Report in May. One thou- 

 sand copies of the List of Publications of the Bureau (Bulletin 36) and 500 

 copies of a special article on Indian missions were issued in June. Fifteen 

 hundred copies of the Twenty-fourth Annual Report and the same number of 

 Bulletin 30, Part I. and Bulletin 32 were sent to regular recipients. About 

 1,500 copies of Bulletin 30, Part I, and 200 copies of the Twenty-fourth Annual, 

 as well as numerous bulletins and separates, were distributed in response to 

 special requests, presented for the most part by Members of Congress. 



The distribution of publications was continued as in former years. The great 

 increase in the number of libraries in the country and the multiplication of de- 

 mands from the public generally have resulted in the almost immediate exhaus- 

 tiun of the quota of volumes (3,500) allotted to the Bureau. Few copies of any 

 of the reports remain six months after the date of issue. 



The library remains in charge of Miss Ella Leary, who was able to bring the 

 accessioning and cataloguing of books, pamphlets, and periodicals up to date. 

 In all, there have been received and recorded during the year 7G0 volumes, 1,200 

 pamphlets, and the current issues of upward of 500 periodicals, while about 500 

 volumes have been bound at the Government Printing Office. The library now 

 contains 13,657 volumes, 9,S00 pamphlets, and several thousand copies of peri- 

 odicals which relate to anthropology. The purchase of books and periodicals 

 has been restricted to such as relate to anthropology and, more especially, to 

 such as have a direct bearing on the American aborigines. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The collections of the year comprise large series of objects obtained by Dr. 

 J. Walter Fewkes, in his excavations at Casa Grande Ruins, Arizona, conducted 

 under the immediate auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, and by Mrs. M. C. 

 Stevenson in Zuni and Taos pueblos. New Mexico. 



Some of the minor collections are a cache of stone knife blades from the 

 vicinity of Tenleytown, District of Columbia, obtained through the kiudness of 

 Mr. C. C. Glover; a series of relics (fragments of pottery) from the temple of 

 Diana at Caldecote, presented by Mr. Robert C. Nightingale ; relics from the 

 shell heaps of Popes Creek, Maryland, presented by Mr. S. H. Morris, of Faulk- 

 ner, Maryland ; and a number of stone implements and unfinished soapstone 

 utensils from the ancient quarries on Connecticut avenue extended, Washington, 

 District of Columbia, collected by Mr. W. H. Gill. 



