Annual Report for Bureau of Ethnology

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Summary

United States Congress orders the publication of the first Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.

Subject

  • Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
  • United States Congress

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • Goode (1895) gives a date of 1879 for the first report, but that is the date when Congress placed the Bureau of Ethnology under the charge of the Smithsonian Institution.
  • Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, D.C.: De Vinne Press, 1897, p. 395, 499, 839.
  • Goode, George Brown. An Account of the Smithsonian Institution: Its Origins, History, Objects and Achievements; Publication 987. Washington, D.C, 1895, p. 22.
  • Rhees, William Jones. The Smithsonian Institution: Documents Relative to Its Origin and History: 1835-1899, Vol. 1, 1835-1887. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901, p. 844.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

June 14, 1880

Topic

  • Inaugural Edition
  • Firsts
  • Annual Reports
  • Anthropology
  • Museums
  • Museum publications

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