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Reformed Church, Montreat, N. C, called attention to an extremely 

 rare pamplet which describes Chickasaw and Choctaw towns, locates 

 certain mounds, and contains notes on pigeon roosts (A Brief History 

 of the Mississippi Territory ; to Which is Prefixed a Summary View of 

 the Country between the Settlements on Cumberland River, and the 

 Territory, by Rev. James Hall, A. M., Salisbury (N. C.) : 12 mo., pp. 

 (2) 70, printed by Francis Coupee, 1801). 



The second conference on Iroquois research, which Dr. Fenton 

 organized in 1945, was again the outstanding event in Iroquois studies. 

 The conference, held October 4, 5, and 6, in cooperation with the Al- 

 legany State Park Commission at Red House, N. Y., brought together 

 anthropologists and historians interested in the Iroquois from the 

 Northeastern States, Canada, and the Middle West. Charles E. Cong- 

 don of Salamanca, N. Y., and Merle H. Deardorff of Warren, Pa., were 

 cohosts to the conference. 



Dr. Fenton gave several lectures during the year on topics related 

 to his work; on September 10 to the L. H. Morgan Chapter, New 

 York State Archaeological Association, Rochester ; October 15 to the 

 Anthropological Society of Washington; December 12 to the Arts 

 Club of Washington. 



A chapter was completed for a forthcoming report of the American 

 Folklore Society: "Research in American Folklore: Plains, Eastern 

 Woodlands, and Contact Folklore between Indians and Colonial 

 Settlers." Seneca Songs from Coldspring Longhouse was prepared 

 as program notes to an album of records which the Library of CongTes.s 

 is publishing. Work was continued on a final draft of a report for 

 the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, A Cajoiga Condolence 

 Cane with Pictographs Denominating the Founders of the Iroquois 

 League, a study which Dr. Fenton commenced several years ago at 

 the request of the Cranbrook Institute of Science. 



As a member of the Committee on International Cooperation in 

 Anthropology, National Research Council, Dr. Fenton attended two 

 meetings in Washington, and prepared a report on Anthropology 

 during the War, VII : The Arab World (American Anthropologist, 

 1947, pp. 342-343). He relinquished secretaryship of the Anthropo- 

 logical Society of Washington, becoming vice president, and continued 

 to give considerable time to the Journal of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences, as senior editor during 1947. 



Publications. — Place names and related activities of the Cornplanter 

 Senecas, V : The path to Conewango (Pennsylvania Archaeologist, vol. 

 16, pp. 42-56, April 1946). 



Twi-yendagon (Woodeater) takes the heavenly path; on the death 

 of Henry Redeye (1864?-1946), Speaker of the Coldspring Seneca 



