58 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
of darkness, light, and low temperature on man, animals, and plants; 
Eskimos; expeditions, especially Russian; fishes and fisheries; frost- 
bite; geology; hypothermia; ice and ice conditions; insects; meteorol- 
ogy; physiology, human and animal; Siberian native peoples; snow; 
transportation. These and some 230 other topics are listed alpha- 
betically in the index and, as necessary, also under the name of the 
particular locality or major geographical region to which they per- 
tain. Heretofore the Arctic Bibliography has been supported almost 
entirely by the Department of Defense. During the past year addi- 
tiona] generous support has been provided by the National Science 
Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National 
Geographic Society. 
Dr. Collins also made plans for a Russian translation project 
whereby the Arctic Institute, with the support of the National Science 
Foundation, would make available to American anthropologists 
translations of Russian publications on the archeology, ethnology, 
and physical anthropology of Siberia. 
Dr. William C. Sturtevant, ethnologist, spent the first part of the 
fiscal year in Washington at work on various projects related to his 
Seminole and Seneca research. He also prepared for publication a 
paper on the economic uses of Zamia, a cycad with a large under- 
ground stem from which starch has been extracted for centuries by 
various Indian and other inhabitants of the West Indies and Florida. 
Another paper brought to completion reconsiders, with negative re- 
sults, the ethnological evidence for contacts between Indians of the 
southeastern United States and the West Indies (previously widely 
considered to have been quite significant for the history of the culture 
of the southeastern tribes). Brief papers were completed on the his- 
tory of the classification of eastern Siouan languages (published in 
American Anthropologist), on the authorship of J. W. Powell’s 
famous classification of North American Indian languages published 
by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1892, and on two new tech- 
niques for ethnographic fieldwork. Dr. Sturtevant’s pamphlet 
“Anthropology as a Career,” issued by the Institution in July 1958, 
proved so useful to students and their advisers throughout the country 
that a second printing was required in May 1959. 
In mid-February Dr. Sturtevant left for Florida to begin 6 months’ 
fieldwork among the Seminole Indians, with the support of a grant 
from the National Science Foundation. This was a continuation of 
the fieldwork Dr. Sturtevant conducted among these people before 
joining the Smithsonian staff. Besides filling in gaps in informa- 
tion obtained during previous trips, Dr. Sturtevant has concentrated 
on studying Seminole knowledge and uses of plants, both wild and 
cultivated. These Indians are the only ones in the eastern United 
