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anthropologists on a permanent basis and requested that plans be 

 made to incorporate ISA personnel directly into that organization. 

 This, of course, signaled the termination of ISA activities as such. 

 Accordingly, the Department of State was requested to notify the 

 Ministers of Foreign Relations of the cooperating countries that the 

 United States would make use of the escape clauses in its memorandum 

 agreements, bringing to a close as of June 30 the agreements that have 

 governed ISA operations during past years. Late in June 1952, the 

 IIAA asked to extend its grant to the Smithsonian Institution for 

 an additional 3 months, to give time for an orderly transfer of person- 

 nel. An additional $15,725 was included in the amended grant, which 

 was to terminate September 30, 1952. 



Operations during the period July 1, 1951, to June 30, 1952, were 

 as follows : 



Washington. — Dr. George M. Foster continued as Director of the In- 

 stitute. In September he concluded arrangements with the United 

 States Public Health Service and the IIAA whereby certain Institute 

 of Social Anthropology staff members, as indicated below, would be 

 detailed for varying periods to participate in health-program analyses. 

 He spent most of October in El Salvador as a member of the team that 

 was initiating this work, and gathered data from a country little 

 known anthropologically. During January and February 1952, he 

 visited field personnel in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico and 

 participated in the health survey in Chile. In May he went to Geneva, 

 Switzerland, as an adviser on cultural problems to the American 

 Delegation to the Fifth Assembly of the World Health Organization. 

 In June he undertook the editorship of the full USPHS-IIAA report 

 on the Latin- American health survey. 



Early in October the Smithsonian Institution brought Dr. Julio 

 Caro Baroja, director of the Museo del Pueblo Espanol in Madrid, 

 to Washington for a 3 months' stay. During this period lie and Dr. 

 Foster were engaged in the preliminary steps of writing a major mono- 

 graph on Spanish ethnography, designed to make available Hispanic 

 background data to make more intelligible the modern cultures of 

 Hispanic America. Dr. Caro's passage was taken care of by the 

 Smithsonian Institution; his stay in the United States was made 

 possible by a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthro- 

 pological Research. 



Miss Lois Northcott, administrative assistant to the Director since 

 1947, resigned to take a position with the Technical Cooperation Ad- 

 ministration in Egypt, and her place was taken by Mrs. Virginia 

 Clark, formerly with the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Brazil. — Both Dr. Donald Pierson and Dr. Kalervo Oberg contin- 

 ued their teaching activities at the Escola de Sociologia e Politica in 

 Sao Paulo. Dr. Pierson, as in f ormer years, served as dean of grad- 



