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ence on Indian Life, for which he prepared a paper. He served as 
President of the Anthropological Society of Washington. 
Dr. Fenton published several papers on anthropological subjects in 
various journals during the year. 
The research activities of Dr. Gordon R. Willey, anthropologist, 
during the year were confined principally to study of data and mate- 
rials previously obtained in the field. They included the final prepa- 
ration of a monograph, “Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast,” a 
culmination of studies begun by the Bureau of American Ethnology 
as early as 1923, with Dr. Willey engaged on the project since 1940. 
The war and other duties interrupted the completion of the manuscript, 
but it is now in process of publication by the Smithsonian. Hight 
other manuscripts by Dr. Willey are in press or awaiting publication, 
and four additional manuscripts are in preparation: ‘‘Ancon-Supe: 
Formative Period Sites of Central Pert’ (with J. M. Corbett and 
L. M. O’Neale); “Huari, an Important Site in the Central Peruvian 
Highlands” (with D. Collier and J. H. Rowe); “Prehistoric Settle- 
ment Patterns in the Virt Valley, Pert,” and ‘‘Archaeological Explora- 
tions in the Parita Zone, Panama.” 
Dr. Willey served in a consultative capacity for the period of final 
editing of volumes 5 and 6 of the Handbook of South American Indi- 
ans (Bureau Bulletin 143) and also assisted with certain administrative 
matters concerned with the Smithsonian River Basin Surveys. 
Dr. Willey participated in a series of round-table discussions under 
the leadership of Dr. A. L. Kroeber during the months October 
through February. These meetings, held at Columbia University, 
New York, were concerned with general discussions of anthropological 
method and theory. Throughout the year he served as assistant 
editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies of the Library of 
Congress Hispanic Foundation. He also served as assistant editor of 
the journal American Antiquity, with reference to the South American 
area. 
From March through May Dr. Willey served as Smithsonian repre- 
sentative at several committee meetings of the State Department 
Committee for Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, and at an open 
meeting of the Caribbean Commission. 
SPECIAL RESEARCHES 
Miss Frances Densmore, collaborator of the Bureau, submitted to 
the Bureau a manuscript entitled ‘(Musical Customs of the Indians of 
the Parana Delta and La Plata Littoral and the Gran Chaco.” 
INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 
The Institute of Social Anthropology was created in 1943 as an 
autonomous unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology to carry out 
