LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
INSTITUTE OF SocIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 
Washington 25, D. C., June 21, 1945. 
Str: I have the honor to transmit herewith a 
manuscript entitled “Cultural and Historical Geogra- 
phy of Southwest Guatemala,” by Felix Webster 
McBryde, and to recommend that it be published as 
Publication Number 4 of the Institute of Social 
Anthropology, which has been established by the 
Smithsonian Institution as an autonomous unit of the 
Bureau of American Ethnology to carry out coopera- 
tive work in social anthropology with the American 
Republics as part of the program of the Inter- 
departmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural 
Cooperation. 
Very respectfully yours, 
Jutran H. Strewarp, Director. 
Dr. ALEXANDER WETMORE, 
Secretary of the Sinithsonian Institution. 
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