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as a member of two Arctic Institute committees: (1) the Publications 

 Committee, which is responsible for preparation of the Institute's 

 quarterly journal Arctic and its two series, Technical Papers and 

 Special Publications, and (2) the Research Committee, wliich plans 

 the Institute's research program by passing upon grant applications, 

 acting as a scientific advisory group for military agencies engaged 

 in conduct of basic research in the Arctic and Antarctic, and planning 

 programs of Polar research which the Institute administers for Gov- 

 ernment agencies and other organizations. 



He also continued to serve as chairman of the directing committee 

 of the Arctic Bibliography, a comprehensive work prepared by the 

 Arctic Institute of North America for the Department of Defense. 

 The purpose of the bibliography is to provide a key to scientific publi- 

 cations in the principal libraries of the United States and Canada 

 relating to the Arctic and sub-Arctic areas and to low-temperature 

 conditions, and to assemble and systematize this material so that it 

 may be readily available to scientists and others concerned with prob- 

 lems of northern research and development. In continuation of tliis 

 program, Volume 8 of Arctic Bibliography (1,281 pages) was issued 

 by the Government Printing Office in September 1959. It summarizes 

 and indexes the contents of 5,622 publications in all fields of science. 

 Volume 9, containing abstracts of 7,192 publications, is in press, and 

 work is in progress on Volume 10. Covering the entire range of scien- 

 tific literature in all languages on the Arctic and subarctic regions of 

 the world, the Arctic Bibliography to date has abstracted and indexed 

 the contents of 56,278 publications relating to these areas and to low- 

 temperature conditions. 



In July 1959 Dr. Collins submitted a proposal to the National 

 Science Foundation for the Arctic Institute of North America to trans- 

 late Russian anthropological publications relating to northern 

 Eurasia. Much of the Soviet and earlier Russian anthropological 

 literature, particularly that on the archeology, ethnology, and physical 

 anthropology of Siberia, has a direct bearing on problems of American 

 anthropology. However, this Russian literature is not available to 

 the great majority of English-speaking anthropologists. English 

 translations of selected articles and monograi)lis from Russian journals 

 and series would begin to meet this long-felt need. In March 1960 

 the National Science Foundation awarded a grant to the Arctic 

 Institute for the translation project and the work began in April, 

 under the direction of Dr. Henry N. ISfichael of Temple University. 

 An advisory committee, of which Dr. Collins is chairman, selects 

 materials for translation and advises on matters pertaining to the 

 publication and distribution of the translations. The translations will 

 be printed in an inexpensive format, as a special publication series of 

 the Arctic Institute, and offered for sale at modest prices. 



