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Dr. Swanton retired at the end of the year after 44 years of service. 
In continuation of his studies of Indian languages, Dr. J. P. Harring- 
ton discovered evidence that the two South American languages 
Quechua and Aymara are related to the Hokan of western North 
America, the first time a linguistic relationship between North and 
South America has been indicated. Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr., in- 
vestigated a prehistoric Indian burial near Abilene, Tex., his studies 
indicating that the burial was made about 10,000 years ago. Dr. 
Roberts also assembled and edited a manual, “Survival on Land and 
Sea,” which was prepared for the Navy by the Ethnogeographic 
Board and the staff of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. J. H. 
Steward continued work on the Handbook of South American Indians. 
He was appointed Director of the Institute of Social Anthropology, 
an autonomous unit of the Bureau reporting to the Secretary, on 
September 1, 1943. Dr. Alfred Métraux, of the Bureau staff, was ap- 
pointed Assistant Director of the above Institute on September 18, 
1948. Dr. H. B. Collins, Jr., served as Assistant Director of the 
Ethnogeographic Board, conducting researches connected with 
regional and other information requested by the Army, Navy, and 
war agencies. Dr. W. N. Fenton served as research associate of the 
Board and participated in a survey of area and language teaching 
in the Army Specialized Training Program and the Civil Affairs 
Training Schools in American universities and colleges. Dr. H. G. 
Barnett, who joined the Bureau staff in December 1943, served as 
executive secretary of a committee formed under the sponsorship of 
the Ethnogeographic Board for the purpose of assembling data upon 
the existing state of our scientific knowledge of the Pacific island area. 
Miss Frances Densmore, a collaborator of the Bureau completed a 
manuscript on “Omaha Music.” The Bureau published its Annual 
Report and six Bulletins during the year. 
International Exchanges.—The International Exchange Service 
acts as the official agency of the United States Government for the 
interchange of governmental and scientific publications between this 
country and all other countries. The total number of packages of 
such material handled during the fiscal year was 407,764, weighing 
243,180 pounds. Shipments to foreign countries continued to be 
greatly curtailed by war conditions. All countries in the Western 
Hemisphere received shipments as usual, but in the Eastern Hemi- 
sphere, the only countries to which shipments could be made were 
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Portugal, the U. S. S. R., Union 
of South Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand. In normal 
times 93 sets of United States official publications are sent abroad 
through the Exchange Service. At present, however, only 58 sets 
can be sent, the other 35 sets being held until after the war. 
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