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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  194 
  3 
  

  

  by 
  the 
  Ethnogeographic 
  Board 
  from 
  the 
  armed 
  services 
  and 
  other 
  

   war 
  agencies. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  his 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  strategic 
  file 
  

   of 
  personnel 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  familiar 
  with 
  foreign 
  countries. 
  

   Growing 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  Koster 
  of 
  Personnel, 
  World 
  Travel, 
  and 
  Special 
  

   Knowledge 
  Available 
  to 
  War 
  Agencies 
  at 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institu- 
  

   tion, 
  as 
  first 
  compiled 
  by 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  War 
  Committee 
  early 
  

   in 
  1942, 
  the 
  present 
  World 
  File 
  of 
  Regional 
  Specialists 
  at 
  the 
  Eth- 
  

   nogeographic 
  Board 
  now 
  includes 
  over 
  2,500 
  names 
  of 
  individuals, 
  

   their 
  travel 
  and 
  special 
  knowledge. 
  Cross-indexed 
  by 
  name, 
  as 
  well 
  

   as 
  by 
  country, 
  this 
  index 
  has 
  enabled 
  the 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  to 
  

   locate 
  promptly 
  any 
  person 
  in 
  response 
  to 
  requests 
  from 
  the 
  armed 
  

   forces 
  for 
  authorities 
  who 
  might 
  possess 
  unusual 
  information, 
  photo- 
  

   graphs, 
  maps, 
  and 
  knowledge 
  of 
  languages 
  of 
  a 
  given 
  area. 
  Certain 
  

   officers 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  civilian 
  specialists 
  have 
  returned 
  repeatedly 
  to 
  the 
  

   Smithsonian 
  building 
  to 
  consult 
  this 
  file. 
  In 
  recognition 
  of 
  this 
  

   work, 
  in 
  February 
  Dr. 
  Fenton 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  research 
  associate 
  of 
  

   the 
  Ethnogeographic 
  Board. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  request 
  of 
  the 
  War 
  Department, 
  Office 
  of 
  Chief 
  of 
  Engi- 
  

   neers, 
  to 
  the 
  Institution, 
  Dr. 
  Fenton 
  delivered 
  a 
  lecture 
  on 
  "The 
  

   Nature 
  and 
  Diversity 
  of 
  Human 
  Culture" 
  to 
  a 
  class 
  in 
  Psychology 
  

   of 
  Administration. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Fenton 
  has 
  continued 
  membership 
  on 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  War 
  

   Committee, 
  acting 
  as 
  its 
  secretary. 
  

  

  Work 
  on 
  the 
  Indian 
  place 
  names 
  of 
  western 
  New 
  York 
  and 
  west- 
  

   ern 
  Pennsylvania 
  has 
  continued 
  by 
  correspondence 
  with 
  Messrs. 
  M. 
  

   H. 
  Deardorff, 
  Warren, 
  Pa., 
  and 
  Chas. 
  E. 
  Congdon, 
  of 
  Salamanca, 
  

   N. 
  Y. 
  At 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year, 
  another 
  correspondent, 
  Dr. 
  

   Elizabeth 
  L. 
  Moore, 
  of 
  Meredith 
  College, 
  had 
  about 
  completed 
  the 
  

   translation 
  of 
  J. 
  F. 
  Lafitau's 
  Moeurs 
  des 
  Sauvages 
  Ameriquains 
  (2 
  

   vols., 
  Paris, 
  1724) 
  , 
  a 
  project 
  reported 
  last 
  year. 
  

  

  Publications 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  include: 
  Songs 
  from 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  Long- 
  

   house: 
  Program 
  Notes 
  for 
  an 
  Album 
  of 
  American 
  Indian 
  Music 
  

   from 
  the 
  Eastern 
  Woodlands, 
  published 
  jointly 
  by 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Institution 
  and 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress 
  as 
  vol. 
  6 
  of 
  Folk 
  Music 
  of 
  

   the 
  United 
  States 
  (Archive 
  of 
  American 
  Folk 
  Song) 
  ; 
  Contacts 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  Iroquois 
  Herbalism 
  and 
  Colonial 
  Medicine, 
  in 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Report 
  for 
  1941 
  ; 
  Last 
  Seneca 
  Pigeon 
  Hunts, 
  in 
  Warren 
  County 
  Penn- 
  

   sylvania 
  Almanac, 
  1943; 
  and 
  Fish 
  Drives 
  among 
  the 
  Cornplanter 
  

   Seneca, 
  in 
  Pennsylvania 
  Archaeologist 
  ; 
  also 
  several 
  book 
  reviews 
  in 
  

   professional 
  and 
  other 
  journals. 
  At 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year, 
  the 
  

   paper 
  entitled 
  "The 
  Last 
  Passenger 
  Pigeon 
  Hunts 
  of 
  the 
  Cornplanter 
  

   Senecas," 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  prepared 
  with 
  M. 
  H. 
  Deardorff 
  for 
  the 
  

   Anthropological 
  Papers 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau, 
  had 
  been 
  accepted 
  for 
  pub- 
  

   lication 
  in 
  the 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Washington 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences. 
  

  

  