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or political brothers among the Iroquois peoples has quite a differ- 

 ent signification, these terms being courteous forms of address of an 

 institutional nature, which bars completely the historical inferences 

 or deductions so frequently made from them. 



Mr. Hewitt was also enabled as a result of his studies to assign to 

 their proper place and function the seven wampum strings utilized 

 by the Iroquois in the Farewell Chant of the Condolence and Instal- 

 lation Convocation of the League of the Iroquois. 



As the representative of the Smithsonian Institution on the United 

 States Geographic Board and as a member of its executive committee 

 Mr. Hewitt attended 10 regular and 4 special meetings of the Board 

 and also 10 regular and 6 special meetings of the executive com- 

 mittee. On April 17, 1934, the President, by Executive order, abolished 

 the United States Geographic Board, transferring its paid personnel 

 of three members to the Interior Department, with the records and 

 other property of the Board. 



EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 



The editing of the publications of the Bureau was continued 

 through the year by Stanley Searles, editor. The following publica- 

 tions were issued during the year ended June 30, 1934: 



Forty-eighth Annual Report. Accompanying paper: General index, annual 

 reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology, vols. 1-48 (Bonner jea). v, 

 1,221 pp. 



Fiftieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, 1932-33. 7 pp. 



Publications distributed totaled 14,761. 



LIBRARY 



The reference library has continued under the care of Miss Ella 

 Leary, librarian. The library consists of 30,701 volumes, about 

 17,095 pamphlets, and several thousand unbound periodicals. Dur- 

 ing the year 310 books were accessioned, of which 34 were acquired 

 by purchase, the remainder being received through gift and ex- 

 change; also 102 pamphlets and 3,130 serials, chiefly the pubUca- 

 tions of learned societies, were received and recorded. The cata- 

 loging kept pace with the new accessions, and some progress was 

 made in cataloging ethnologic and related articles in the earlier serials, 

 3,840 cards being added to the catalog. A considerable amount of 

 reference work was done in the usual course of the library's service 

 to investigators and students, both those in the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution and others. 



