The Bureau of American Ethnology was founded in 1879 and produced a series of annual reports on Ethnology and Linguistics. 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Ethnologyis a genre of cultural anthropology and| anthropological study, involving the systematic comparison of the beliefs and practices of different societies. ... Broadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ...
On February 1, 1965, the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Department of Anthropology of the Museum of Natural History were combined to form the new Smithsonian Office of Anthropology under the Museum of Natural History. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Smithsonian castle, as seen through the garden gate. ...
In 1926 she became assistant curator, in 1942 associate curator, and from 1964 to 1969 she was curator of ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
The Bureau of AmericanEthnology and Its Legacy to Southeastern Archaeology.
The Rise and Fall of the Bureau of AmericanEthnology.
In 1946 the B.A.E. established the River Basin Surveys to supervise and conduct archaeological research in areas where dams were flooding many of the centers of prehistoric cultures within the U.S. Beginning in the 1950s, the museum Department of Anthropology increasingly emphasized research, in addition to its traditional curatorial and exhibition duties.
As part of this change, the Bureau of AmericanEthnology was eliminated, and its staff and important library amalgamated with those of the museum Department of Anthropology.
Members of the department, in conjunction with those at the Bureau of AmericanEthnology, founded the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1880, which in 1888 began publishing the American Anthropologist, which was taken over in 1899 by the new American Anthropological Association and became the leading professional journal of anthropology.