ACTIVITIES OF STAFF MEMBERS IN SCIENTIFIC 

 SOCIETIES 



The Museum, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern Univer- 

 sity were cosponsors of the fifty-sixth annual meeting of the American 

 Anthropological Association, which was held in Chicago in December 

 (see page 76) . The Museum was host to the members of the associa- 

 tion on Saturday, December 28, and a number of official activities 

 were held at the Museum. The staff of the Department of Anthro- 

 pology attended the meetings and several curators read papers. 

 Roland W. Force, Curator of Oceanic Archaeology and Ethnology, 

 was chairman of the local arrangements committee. 



Dr. Donald Collier, Curator of South American Archaeology and 

 Ethnology, George I. Quimby, Curator of North American Archae- 

 ology and Ethnology, Dr. John B. Rinaldo, Assistant Curator of 

 Archaeology, Miss Elaine Bluhm, Assistant in Archaeology, Phillip 

 H. Lewis, Assistant Curator of Primitive Art, Evett D. Hester, 

 Thomas J. Dee Fellow in Anthropology, and Curator Force attended 

 the joint annual meetings in Madison, Wisconsin, of the Society for 

 American Archaeology and the Central States Branch of the Amer- 

 ican Anthropological Association. Curator Collier and Curator Force 

 presented papers, and Curator Quimby, who was elected president 

 of the Society for American Archaeology for the 1957-58 term, acted 

 as chairman of one of the sessions. 



Dr. Paul S. Martin, Chief Curator of Anthropology, Assistant 

 Curator Rinaldo, and Assistant Elaine Bluhm attended a conference 

 at the University of Southern Illinois on Mexican-Southwestern rela- 

 tionships. As the official delegate of the American Anthropological 

 Association, Assistant Curator Lewis attended, by invitation, a sym- 

 posium on the artist in tribal society held at the Royal Anthropolog- 

 ical Institute in London (he received a grant for travel from the 

 American Council of Learned Societies). Evett D. Hester was the 

 Museum's representative at the Ninth Pacific Science Congress of 

 the Pacific Science Association, which was held in Bangkok, Thai- 

 land. Curator Collier and Curator Force attended a conference on 

 preparation of an encyclopaedia of anthropology held at Edwards- 

 ville, Michigan, under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation 

 for Anthropological Research. Curator Collier was elected to a sec- 

 ond term as chairman of the Institute of Andean Research, and 

 Curator Force was invited to become a member of a twelve-man 

 standing committee on Museums and Pacific Research of the Pacific 

 Science Association. 



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