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The Archeological Survey Association of Southern California, spon- 

 sored by a number of museums in that area, started the investigation 

 of a number of Corps of Engineers projects in southern California. 

 The University of Washington surveyed a number of proposed reser- 

 voir basins in that State and made all the information available to 

 the Columbia-Snake Basin group at Eugene. It also did some exca- 

 vation work. 



The Keports of Progress prepared by the cooperating organizations 

 are sent to the River Basin Surveys for coordination and are then for- 

 warded to the National Park Service. All the information obtained 

 thus becomes a part of the record of the River Basin Surveys in 

 general. 



EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 



The editorial work of the Bureau continued during the year under 

 the immediate direction of the editor, M. Helen Palmer. There were 

 issued one Annual Report and one Publication of the Institute of 

 Social Anthropology, as listed below. 



Sixty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1945-46. 

 12 pp. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Puhl. No. 3. Moche, a Peruvian Coastal Com- 

 munity, by John Gillin, IGG pp., 26 pis., 8 figs., 1 map. 



The following publications were in press at the close of the fiscal 

 year: 



Bulletin 143. Handbook of South American Indians. Julian H. Steward, 

 editor. Volume 3 : The Tropical Forest Tribes. Volume 4 : The Circum-Caribbean 

 Tribes. Volume 5 : The Comparative Ethnology of the South American Indians. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 4. Cultural and Historical Geogra- 

 phy of Southwest Guatemala, by Felix Webster McBryde. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 5. Highland Communities of Central 

 Peru : A Regional Survey, by Harry Tschopik, Jr. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 6. Empire's Children : the People of 

 Tzintzuntzan, by George M. Foster. 



Institute of Social Antliropology Publ. No. 7. Cultural Geography of the Mod- 

 ern Tarascan Area, by Robert C. West. 



Institute of Social Anthropology Publ. No. 8. Sierra Popoluca Speech, by Mary 

 L. Foster and George M. Foster. 



Publications distributed totaled 7,948, as compared with 12,730 for 

 the fiscal year 1945-46. 



LIBRARY 



The Library of the Bureau has continued in charge of the librarian. 

 Miss Miriam B. Ketchum, assisted by M. L. Fiester, who was appointed 

 March 17, 1947. 



The total accessions in the library as of June 30, 1947, were 34,462. 

 There were 148 new accessions during the fiscal year, by purchase, gift, 



