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tion of the journal Arctic and two other publication series, and of the 

 Research Committee that plans and supervises the Institute's exten- 

 sive program of Arctic research. He also continued to serve as chair- 

 man of the Directing Conunittee responsible for preparation of the 

 Arctic Institute's Arctic Bibliography, a comprehensive work which 

 abstracts and indexes the contents of publications in all fields of 

 science, and in all languages, pertainmg to the Arctic and sub- Arctic 

 regions of the world. Volume 9 of Arctic Bibliography (1,599 

 pages), containing abstracts of 7,192 scientific publications on the 

 Arctic, was published in September 1960. Of the publications ab- 

 stracted in this volmne, 3,170 had appeared in English, 2,548 in Rus- 

 sian, 790 m Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, 338 in German, and 

 346 in other languages. Volume 10, similar in size and content to 

 volume 9, is in press, and work is proceeding on volume 11. 



The project wliich Dr. Collins organized last year for the purpose 

 of translating Russian publications on the archeology, ethnology, 

 and physical anthropology of northern Eurasia made progress under 

 the editorship of Dr. Henry N. Michael of Temple University. The 

 first volume to be completed is S. I. Rudenko's "The Ancient Culture 

 of the Bering Sea Area and the Eskimo Problem," the only comprehen- 

 sive Russian work on the archeology of northeastern Siberia. It is now 

 in press and will appear as the first number in a special publication 

 series of the Arctic Institute of North America. The Advisory Com- 

 mittee, of wliich Dr. Collins is chairman, has selected material — 

 monographs and shorter papers — for five additional volumes which 

 are now being translated. The work is being carried out with the 

 support of a grant from the National Science Foundation. 



Dr. Collins prepared a paper on the interrelationships of early 

 Eskimo and pre-Eskimo cultures in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland 

 and their affinities with Temperate Zone cultures in America and Asia 

 to be published in a volume of the Special Publications series of the 

 Arctic Institute of North America, and another paper on the environ- 

 mental factors involved in the origin and development of Eskimo 

 culture in the American Arctic. 



Dr. William C. Sturtevant, ethnologist, spent July and August 1960 

 in Europe. He attended the 34th International Congress of Ameri- 

 canists in Vienna and the 6th International Congress of Anthro- 

 pological and Ethnological Sciences in Paris. The remainder of the 

 period was spent in museum research. In 11 museums of England, 

 Austria, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden Dr. Sturtevant studied 

 several hundred early specimens collected from eastern North Ameri- 

 can Indians. He located, described, and photographed many im- 

 portant specimens and collections, mostly from the northeast — there 

 are surprisingly few early southeastern specimens in Europe. To one 

 familiar with collections in the United States the number and good 



