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Sociologia e Polltica for the commencement exercises held in March. 

 He spent May and June in the United States on consultation. 



Colombia. — In Colombia, Dr. Raymond E. Crist, cultural geog- 

 rapher on leave from the University of Maryland, represented the 

 Institute at the Universidad del Cauca, Popayan. For the past year 

 Dr. Crist was in Colombia only for the months of July through August, 

 returning to the United States in September. During this stay, 

 which was a continuation of an appointment made in 1949, Dr. Crist 

 and a group of Colombian scientists and graduate students made a 

 survey trip into the western section of the Department of Cauca for 

 the purpose of studying land utilization and agricultural and animal- 

 husbandry techniques. In August he accompanied Dr. A. C. White- 

 ford of Beloit University on a field trip among the Guambiano In- 

 dians, and shortly thereafter he visited the lower Eastern Cordillera 

 on a geographic survey. Dr. Crist was especially cited to the Secre- 

 tary of State by the assistant public affairs officer in Bogotd for the 

 professional and personal success of his stay in Colombia. 



Mexico. — Dr. Isabel T. Kelly, Institute representative assigned to 

 the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City, divided her 

 time between teaching and the writing of the first volume of an 

 ethnography of the Totonac Indians. This work was completed in 

 March, and since then Dr. Kelly has continued with preparation of 

 the second volume. She also carried on a research seminar for Mex- 

 ican graduate students in the writing and general preparation of 

 scientific monographs. 



The United States-sponsored Benjamin Franklin Library in Mexico 

 City exhibited some 80 photographs taken by Dr. Kelly during her 

 work among the Totonac Indians, and these photographs were later 

 borrowed by the Mexican Government for displays in Jalapa, Monter- 

 rey, Morelia, and Oaxaca. Dr. Kelly's activities have been favorably 

 publicized by a feature article released in the Mexican popular weekly 

 magazine Nosotros. 



In connection with the Washington office's attempt to demonstrate 

 the utility of anthropology for the Point IV type of economic devel- 

 opment program, Dr. Kelly prepared an analysis of possibilities for 

 public housing in the tropical coastal area of the Gulf of Mexico. This 

 was written from the point of view of the native cultures involved, 

 with which Dr. Kelly is expertly familiar, and points up the conflicts 

 and difficulties to be overcome in implanting technological ideas on 

 alien societies. During September Dr. Kelly was in the United 

 States for consultation. 



Peru. — The 1950 year opened with Dr. George A. Kubler, on leave 

 from Yale University, as the Institute's representative attached to the 

 Peruvian Instituto de Estudios Etnol6gicos in Lima. Dr. Kubler, an 



