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Dr. Roberts also worked on his final report on the excavations at 
the Lindenmeier Folsom Man site in northern Colorado, a project 
completed shortly before the outbreak of the war, and also wrote a 
number of articles for publication in scientific journals. On March.16, 
1944, Dr. Roberts was appointed a member of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution’s Committee on Personnel Utilization and from that date until 
the close of the fiscal year devoted considerable time to the activities 
of that committee. 
During such periods as the Chief was absent from Washington, 
Dr. Roberts served as Acting Chief of the Bureau. 
On September 1, 1943, Dr. Julian H. Steward, anthropologist, was 
appointed Director of the Institute of Social Anthropology, an autono- 
mous unit of the Bureau, reporting directly to the Secretary. His 
work as editor of the Handbook of South American Indians also con- 
tinued concurrently. <A brief statement on these two projects will be 
found later on in this report. 
At the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Alfred Métraux, ethnologist, 
was teaching in Mexico City, through an arrangement with the Na- 
tional University of Mexico. He returned to duty on August 1, 1943, 
and assisted Dr. Julian H. Steward in the preparation of the Hand- 
book of South American Indians. Dr. Métraux was appointed Assist- 
ant Director of the Institute of Social Anthropology on September 18, 
1948. He completed four papers for the Handbook, and also gathered 
bibliographical material for several other contributions and assembled 
notes for the articles of the Handbook’s fifth volume. 
During the fiscal year Dr. Henry B. Collins, Jr., ethnologist, con- 
tinued his work as Assistant Director of the Ethnogeographic Board. 
As in the previous year, the activities of the Board for which he was 
responsible concerned research in connection with regional and other 
information requested by the Army, Navy, and other war agencies. 
He represented the Smithsonian Institution and the Ethnogeographic 
Board as a technical adviser to the Emergency Rescue Equipment Sec- 
tion of the Navy and wrote the Arctic section for the booklet “Survival 
on Land and Sea.” Some 750,000 copies of this official Navy survival 
manual have been distributed to the fleet and shore stations. 
Dr. Collins contributed the sections on geography, history, and 
anthropology for an article on the Aleutian Islands, which will be 
published as one of the series of War Background Studies of the Smith- 
sonian Institution. 
During such time as was available, Dr. Collins continued his re- 
searches on the Eskimo and the southeastern Indians. 
Dr. William N. Fenton, ethnologist, continued to serve as research 
associate of the Ethnogeographic Board. With the assistance of 
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