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Mato Grosso. On both of these trips he was accompanied by students 
from the Escola Livre. 
Colombia.—Dr. John H. Rowe returned to the United States from 
Popay4n, Colombia, in September to accept a permanent position at 
the University of California. Dr. Raymond E. Crist, professor of 
geography at the University of Maryland, was employed in February 
1949 on a temporary basis to replace Dr. Rowe. In the short time 
Dr. Crist has been in Popay4n he has given courses and lectures in the 
Universidad del Cauca, dealing with Iberian culture and its dissemina- 
tion in the New World, and with geographic methods and theories. 
He has made several short field trips to small communities near 
Popaydn, and has been host to the American Ambassador, Willard L. 
Beaulac, who, with his private party, flew from Bogota for the express 
purpose of becoming acquainted with the work of the Institute in 
Popayan. 
Mézico.—Dr. Isabel Kelly, social anthropologist, continued to repre- 
sent the Institute at the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico 
City, giving anthropology courses and guiding independent research 
of students. A part of the spring of 1949 again was spent in the 
Totonac area, where final field notes on this group were taken, prepara- 
tory to writing a monograph describing the results of three seasons of 
work. Dr. Stanley Newman, linguist, resigned from the Institute 
in February 1949, to accept a position at the University of New 
Mexico. Up to this time be continued his teaching schedule at the 
Escuela. His research included investigations of the Otomi and 
Nahuatl Indian languages, and participation in the literacy campaign 
of the Mexican Government. A significant paper on the Otomi 
language was completed, and a major monograph on Nahuatl was 
undertaken. 
Pert.—Dr. Allan Holmberg resigned from the Institute in August 
1948 to accept a permanent position at Cornell University. He was 
immediately replaced by Dr. George Kubler, of Yale University, who 
arrived in Lima early in September. Dr. Kubler continued teaching 
projects in the Instituto de Estudios Etnolégicos, and also gave a 
course in the University of San Marcos. He devoted much atten- 
tion to the social history of the colonial period in Pert, with particular 
emphasis on demography, and shifts in populations during this period. 
This work will to a considerable extent close the gap between the 
data of archeological studies in the Virti Valley in north Pert, made 
by Smithsonian and other scientists, and the contemporary studies 
made by Dr. Holmberg and teachers and students of the Instituto 
de Estudios Etnolégicos, thus completing one of the longest sequences 
of culture history known from any part of the world. Dr. Kubler 
made a brief trip in March 1949 to Bogota and Popay4n, to investigate 
