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96-28 at the Allegany State Park, N. Y. Discussions were devoted 
to ethnology, linguistics, and archeology with reference to the Lower 
Great Lakes area. The proceedings of the conference, written by Dr. 
Fenton, were distributed to the 20 persons in attendance and to others 
interested. Dr. Fenton attended a similar conference on the pre- 
history of eastern New York and New England, held February 22, 
1946, at the New York State Museum, Albany. 
“Area Studies in American Universities” reclaimed D. Fenton’s 
attention, when the Commission on Implications of Armed Services 
Educational Programs, of the American Council on Education, re- 
quested him to prepare a report for publication on the Ethnogeo- 
graphic Board’s Survey of the Foreign Area and Language Train- 
ing Programs of the ASTP and the Civil Affairs Training Schools 
during 1943-44. The manuscript for the final report, totaling some 
180 pages, was virtually completed at the close of the fiscal year. 
Completion of this report coincided with the end of the Ethnogeo- 
graphic Board and discharged a final obligation to that wartime 
activity. 
The following publications by Dr. Fenton appeared during the year: 
Place names and related activities of the Cornplanter Senecas (Pennsyl- 
vania Archaeologist) : 
III. Burnt-house at Cornplanter Grant, vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 88-96. 
IV. Cornplanter Peak to Warren, vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 108-118. 
V. The Path to Conewango, vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 42-56. 
(With J. N. B. Hewitt) Some mnemonic pictographs relating to the Iroquois 
Condolence Council (Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 
vol. 35, No. 10, October 15, 1945, pp. 301-315). 
An Iroquois Condolence Council for installing Cayuga chiefs in 1945 (Journal 
of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. 36, No. 4, April 15, 1946, pp. 
110-127). 
Dr. Philip Drucker, anthropologist, resumed his duties at the Bu- 
reau of American Ethnology on December 17, 1945, after release to in- 
active duty by the Navy. He departed almost immediately for Mexico 
to assemble equipment, set up camp, and make preparations for exca- 
vating a site in southeastern Veracruz, San Lorenzo, that had been 
selected by Dr. M. W. Stirling, Chief of the Bureau, for this season’s 
work by the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution 
cooperative expedition. On Dr. Stirling’s arrival, in the latter part 
of January, Dr. Drucker remained as his assistant. Intensive exca- 
vations were carried out in various mounds and other features of the 
site, and numerous stone monuments, including altars, statues, and 
tremendous monolithic heads of “Olmec” or “La Venta” type were 
found. While Dr. Stirling occupied himself with a study of the 
