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The bibliographical references furnished by the Board cover a 

 wide range of regions and topics. Both general and specific references 

 were supplied for such diverse regions as Nunivak, the Aleutians, 

 Honduras, Gambia, Formosa, Spitzbergen, Burma, Sokotra, Mauri- 

 tius, Albania, Italian Somaliland, Dutch Timor, Nicobar, Gough, 

 Celebes, and Tripoli. Most requests were for geographical titles, but 

 a few involved specific programs, for example: Sources on the 

 Aleutians for instruction of Army engineers ; sources on Albania to 

 aid in planning a child-care program ; list of basic sources for estab- 

 lishing a foreign-area library at an Army Staff College. 



Common requests were for books with regional maps, such as a 

 map of Copenhagen showing the location of art galleries and mu- 

 seums, or large-scale maps of Germany which marked county and 

 city boundaries. The Board did more than wait passively for requests. 

 For example, Dr. Collins compiled a list of publications containing 

 large-scale maps of the Netherlands New Guinea, New Britain, and 

 other South Pacific islands, and presented this list to the liaison of- 

 ficers. This was also done whenever a book with unusually good maps 

 or pictures of some little-known region was encountered. Many 

 agencies asked for books with illustrations. Not all were limited to 

 topography and beaches, as demonstrated by requests for good pictures 

 of the Ainus of Japan and for illustrations of common insect para- 

 sites. Some requests were for both regional and discipline bibliog- 

 raphies, for example, on Siamese botany, on race, on African 

 agriculture, and on the Conns genus of poisonous mollusks. Others 

 wanted linguistic references on the Lingua Geral of Brazil, on 

 Tibetan dialects, on Eskimo vocabularies, on Pidgin English, or on 

 the distribution of. languages in Europe. 



In a few instances the inquiries were for rather specialized bibliog- 

 raphies. Some of these include : Publications with information on 

 the financial organization of Japanese companies exploiting the man- 

 dated islands ; bibliography on rocks and rock coloration for camou- 

 flage in the South Pacific ; references on the food, clothing, and 

 culture patterns of North Africa, particularly Tunisia, for making 

 relief pictorial maps ; books with information on Greenland's hos- 

 pital facilities, educational facilities, police systems, and religious 

 organizations ; titles for data on acculturation through medicine men 

 in Central America. 



The Board was able to supply references for a large number of 

 these varied topics from its files, or from its constant perusal of 



