54 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1944 
Miss Mae W. Tucker, he has maintained for the Ethnogeographic 
Board the world file of area and language specialists, which has 
grown to include more than 10,000 entries for all continents and island 
areas. This file has been extensively used by the military and other 
war agencies in their search for specialized personnel. From this 
file a series of five studies were prepared, together with maps and in- 
dexes, showing domestic sources of photographs on strategic areas 
of interest particularly to the Navy Department. At the request 
of the Army Specialized Training Division, the Ethnogeographic 
Board commenced a survey of area and language teaching in the Army 
Specialized Training Program and the Civil Affairs Training Schools 
in 25 American universities and colleges. Dr. Fenton participated 
in the survey, visiting 13 institutions between December 19438 and 
March 1944, and since that time has been occupied in writing up ob- 
servations and preparing reports for the proper offices. 
In addition to this work, Dr. Fenton continued his studies on the 
League of the Iroquois, translating a number of texts collected by 
J.N. B. Hewitt and A. A. Goldenweiser. Dr. Fenton’s publications for 
the year were: “The Last Passenger Pigeon Hunts of the Corn- 
planter Senecas” (with M. H. Deardorff), and “The Requickening 
Address of the Iroquois Condolence Council” (of J. N. B. Hewitt), in 
the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences; and an obituary, 
“Simeon Gibson: Iroquois Informant, 1889-1943,” in the American 
Anthropologist; also several book reviews and notes in scientific and 
literary journals. 
Since joining the staff in December 1943, Dr. Homer G. Barnett, an- 
thropologist, has 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 knowl- 
edge of the Pacific Island area. The committee includes representa- 
tives of the geological, geographic, linguistic, political science, and 
anthropological disciplines. As executive secretary Dr. Barnett 
has served chiefly as organizer and coordinator of the committee’s ac- 
tions. Since some of the committee members are located outside of 
Washington, considerable correspondence has been necessary as well 
as meetings both in Washington and New York. 
When not engaged in the above activities, Dr. Barnett has worked 
on the organization of field notes on various Salishan and Northwest 
Coast tribes, having in project a series of publications stressing cul- _ 
tural change among the Yurok, the Tsimshian, the Yakima, and the - 
Makah. He has just completed one manuscript dealing with the 
Indian Shaker cult of the northwestern United States. 
