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publications in all fields of science relating to the Arctic and sub- 

 Arctic areas of the world. The work on the Bibliography is being car- 

 ried out by a staff of 12 bibliographers and scientists under the direc- 

 tion of Miss Marie Tremaine. Most of the work has been done at the 

 Library of Congress but the collections of the New York Public 

 Library, Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, and some 60 

 other large libraries in the United States and Canada have also been 

 utilized. In addition to books and monographs, the Bibliography 

 lists and describes material published in more than 1,400 scientific 

 journals and serial publications in English, Russian, and other lan- 

 guages. Titles of foreign-language publications are given in the 

 original and in English, with description of the contents in English. 

 Covering all fields of science for all the Arctic and sub-Arctic, the 

 Arctic Bibliography is now recognized as the most comprehensive 

 regional bibliography ever assembled. Volume 4, of approximately 

 1,500 pages, is scheduled for publication in August 1954. Dr. Collins 

 made arrangements with the Department of the Air Force, which has 

 supported the work for the past two fiscal years, for continuation of 

 the Bibliography project in 1954-55, and for the printing of volume 5, 

 the material for which was delivered to the Govermnent Printing Of- 

 fice in June 1954. 



On June 21, Dr. Collins and three assistants, William E. Taylor, Jr., 

 Dr. J. Norman Emerson, and Eugene Ostroff, left to conduct arche- 

 ological work in Hudson Bay. The expedition is being sponsored by 

 the National Museum of Canada, the National Geographic Society, and 

 the Smithsonian Institution. The party was flown by the Royal 

 Canadian Air Force from Montreal to Coral Harbour, on Southamp- 

 ton Island, and will remain until September, investigating prehistoric 

 Eskimo sites on Southampton and Coats Islands. 



During July and August of 1953, Dr. John P, Harrington was in the 

 region of Santa Barbara, Calif., continuing his studies of the Chu- 

 mash Indians, the most advanced tribe of the State. He also made a 

 special study of place names as recorded by the Cabrillo expedition of 

 1542 and by the Portola and Anza expeditions of 1769 and 1776, re- 

 spectively. A great majority of these names were located during the 

 field study. On returning to Washington Dr. Harrington continued 

 the preparation of a detailed report on his findings. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Philip Drucker, anthro- 

 pologist, was in Washington continuing his studies of Olmec arche- 

 ological materials from southern Mexico. He also began preparations 

 for a field trip to the coast of British Columbia and southeast Alaska 

 in order to continue his study of modern intertribal Indian organiza- 

 tion. Early in September he went to British Columbia to carry on this 

 research. A grant from the Arctic Institute of North America made 

 this work possible. Toward the end of the calendar year a supple- 



