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being published by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological 

 Research. At the meeting of the Society for American Archaeology 

 in May 1952 Dr. Collins presented a paper summarizing and evaluating 

 the results of radiocarbon dating in the Arctic in the light of the arche- 

 ological evidence, and including an interpretation of the ancient 

 Denbigh Flint Complex of Alaska, its Old World connections and age, 

 and its relationships to Folsom, Yuma, and Eskimo. The paper will 

 appear in the January issue of American Antiquity. An article on 

 the progress of anthropology in 1951 was prepared for the Encyclo- 

 paedia Britannica and another on the Races of Asia for the Ency- 

 clopaedia Hebraica. He also edited Science in Alaska, a volume of 

 selected papers presented at the First Alaskan Science Conference held 

 in Washington in November 1950 under the auspices of the National 

 Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. The volume was 

 published by the Arctic Institute of North America and contains 

 papers on Alaskan anthropology, agriculture, botany, geology and 

 geography, geophysics, meteorology, public health, and zoology. Dr. 

 Collins continued to serve as chairman of the directing committee 

 supervising preparation of Arctic Bibliography, a comprehensive, an- 

 notated, and indexed bibliography of English and foreign-language 

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

 tic regions of America, Siberia, and Europe. The bibliography is 

 being assembled by the Arctic Institute of North America under con- 

 tract with the Office of Naval Research with funds from the Depart- 

 ments of the Army and the Navy, and the Defense Research Board 

 of Canada. At the end of the fiscal year material for a supplemental 

 volume of about 900 pages was completed and ready for the printer. 

 Proofreading continues on the initial six volumes of similar size now 

 at the Government Printing Office. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. John P. Harrington was 

 in Mexico engaged in studying the Maya language. On his return 

 to Washington he completed the preparation of a grammar and dic- 

 tionary of the Maya language, with the assistance of a Maya informant, 

 Domingo Canton Aguilar, whom he brought to Washington for that 

 purpose. He also completed a monograph on the numeration sys- 

 tem of the Valladolid Maya Indians of Yucatan. Another paper 

 he completed during the fiscal year was on the first vocabulary of 

 the Virginia Indians, compiled by William Strachey in 1612. The 

 original of this vocabulary is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 

 England. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year and until after Labor Day, Dr. 

 William N. Fenton was visiting professor of anthropology at the 

 University of Michigan. During his stay in Ann Arbor he examined 

 important historical papers relating to the political history of the 



