PD ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
data available on any comparable area in Latin America. One large . 
monograph on the Tarascan area has already been published, and three 
more will follow in 1947. Six student papers of from 100 to 200 
manuscript pages are also being prepared for publication in Spanish 
by the Escuela. 
Peru.—Dr. F. Webster McBryde, cultural geographer, was assigned 
in September 1945 to take charge of the Institute work in Peru. 
Harry Tschopik, Jr., continued his work in Peru throughout the year. 
The accomplishments can be shown best by a résumé of the work since 
it began early in 1944. At this time, Peru had no institution devoted 
essentially to social science teaching and research, and its geographical 
society was requesting advice from the United States about its pro- 
posed reorganization. The cooperation of the Institute has helped 
the Ministry of Education of Peru to establish a well-financed national 
center of social science, the Instituto de Estudios Etnolégicos. The 
Instituto, dedicated to teaching, research, and publication, is a most 
important development, because for the first time Peru can obtain 
scientific information on her native peoples, who are the predominant 
element in her contemporary population. The staff of the Peruvian 
oflice of the Institute of Social Anthropology has given lectures at the 
Universities of Cuzco and Trujillo, and courses in geography and an- 
thropology are planned for the Instituto, thus enabling Peruvian stu- 
dents to obtain training in United States techniques of social science. 
Dr. McBryde has helped in the reorganization of the geographical 
society and has advised on changes in the geography curriculum in 
San Marcos University in Lima. 
The Institute staff has carried out extensive research among Peru- 
vian coastal and central highland communities. The latter project, 
done in cooperation with three Peruvian scientists, involved 36 man- 
months and included 30 different communities. The data will be 
published in both Spanish and English in several monographs, two of 
which already are in press. They not only represent significant con- 
tributions to knowledge on heretofore little-known groups, but also 
will be very useful to Peruvian authorities interested in such practical 
problems as that of obtaining laborers for the high Andean mines 
and that of colonizing sparsely populated areas of eastern Peru, a 
matter of prime importance to the agricultural experimental stations. 
At the request of the Peruvian-Bolivian educational commission, a 
survey will be made of the settlement patterns of the altiplano to 
provide a basis for the establishment of rural schools. 
The importance of these research results has been acknowledged and 
stressed by the Minister of Education in a speech before the Peruvian 
Congress. 
