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Utilization Committee and as a part of this work prepared a manu- 

 script for a handbook "Smithsonian Institution — Information for 

 Employees." In addition he was the general department represent- 

 ative on the Efficiency Eating Review Board for the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and attended the United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion's Fourth Annual Institute of Efficiency Rating Boards of Review 

 in June 1945. 



On September 22, 1944, Dr. Roberts was appointed Assistant Chief, 

 and during absences of the Chief served as Acting Chief of the Bureau. 



Dr. Henry B. Collins, Jr., ethnologist, continued his work in con- 

 nection with the Ethnogeographic Board. As in the previous year, 

 he handled requests for information on geographical and other sub- 

 jects which came to the Board from the Army, Navy, and other war 

 agencies. When Dr. Wm. Duncan Strong resigned as Director in July, 

 Dr. Collins was made Acting Director, and at the first Board meeting 

 thereafter, in December, he was appointed Director. 



At the invitation of the sponsoring committee, Dr. Collins attended 

 a meeting held in Montreal in September for the purpose of organizing 

 the Arctic Institute of North America. The purpose of the Institute 

 is to initiate, encourage, and support scientific research in Alaska, 

 Canada, and Greenland, on the premise that studies in many fields of 

 science will be required as the basis for efficient planning for the de- 

 velopment of the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of North America. 

 As one of the governors of the Arctic Institute, Dr. Collins attended 

 several meetings in Montreal, at which plans for the operations of 

 the organization were formulated. 



During such time as was available, Dr. Collins continued his re- 

 searches on the archeology of the Eskimo and related problems. 



Dr. William N. Fenton, ethnologist, for the fourth successive year 

 continued to devote a large part of the year to activities arising from 

 the war effort. As research associate for the Ethnogeographic Board, 

 six reports on Area Studies in American Universities were completed 

 and issued in mimeograph form; others are in manuscript. These 

 reports cover a survey of Army training programs undertaken in 1944, 

 and again considerable time was spent in travel to the universities while 

 observing the programs and interviewing teachers and trainees. The 

 reception that greeted reports already distributed indicates that they 

 are not without some usefulness. 



Scientific activities, although still of necessity somewhat curtailed, 

 picked up toward the end of the year. Dr. Fenton was reelected 

 secretary of the Anthropological Society of Washington, and was 

 appointed to the Board of Editors of the Journal of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, to serve for 3 years. Field researches on the 

 Iroquois were resumed. Through a grant from the Viking Fund of 



