DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS
The distribution of the publications of the bureau has been continued under the charge of Miss Helen Munroe, assisted by Miss Emma B. Powers. Publications distributed were as follows:
| Annual Report volumes and separates | 6,003 |
| Bulletins and separates | 13,924 |
| Contributions to North American Ethnology | 33 |
| Miscellaneous publications | 515 |
| 20,475 |
As compared with the fiscal year ended June 30, 1930, there was a decrease of 4,393. This decrease is mainly in the distribution of bulletins and separates, and possibly is largely explained by the very large number of separates from the Handbook which were sent in the previous year to the many groups of Camp Fire Girls. No great demand from any one group was received during the past fiscal year.
Twenty-eight addresses were added to the mailing list during the year and 20 were taken off. The mailing list now stands at 1,635 in addition to the members of the staff of the bureau and other branches of the Institution who receive the publications regularly as issued.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Following is a summary of work accomplished in the illustration branch of the bureau under the supervision of De Lancey Gill, illustrator:
| Photographs and drawings retouched, lettered, and otherwise made ready for engraving | 748 |
| Drawings made, including maps, diagrams, etc. | 48 |
| Engravers’ proofs criticized | 524 |
| Printed editions of colored plates examined at Government Printing Office | 7,000 |
| Correspondence attended to (letters) | 135 |
| Photographs selected and catalogued for private publication | 310 |
| Photolaboratory work by Dr. A. J. Olmsted, National Museum, in cooperation with the Bureau of American Ethnology: | |
| Negatives | 154 |
| Prints | 335 |
| Lantern slides | 91 |
| Films developed from field exposures | 48 |
During the early part of the calendar year Miss Mae W. Tucker was detailed to this branch to assist in listing and cataloguing the great collection of Indian negatives already classified by Mr. Gill in previous years. Of the purely ethnologic subjects, including portraits, arts, and industries, the list will embrace more than 7,000 units. This work, so long delayed, has progressed most satisfactorily.