A3. THE SECRETARY OF THE CONFERENCE BOARD OF ASSOCIATED 

 RESEARCH COUNCILS 



COPY 



American Council of Learned Societies 



Member of the 



International Union of Academies 



Executive Offices 



1 2 19 Sixteenth Street, N.IV. 



Washington 6, D. C. 



November 8, 1944 



Dear Dr. Strong: 



At a meeting of the sponsors of the Ethnogeographic Board, held in Wash- 

 ington on October 19, 1944, I was requested to convey to you their grateful 

 appreciation of the extraordinarily valuable services that you have rendered 

 as Director of the Washington office. 



The sponsors feel that you were successful to a degree that they had feared 

 might not be possible in organizing and making available for public service in 

 time of great need the scholarly and scientific resources of the country. 



The enthusiasm and energy with which you have devoted yourself to the 

 organization of the work and to its direction during the period when the 

 services of the Board were most in demand and mo^t urgently needed cannot 

 be too highly estimated. 



We wish to assure you of our gratitude, and of the gratitude of organized 

 scholarship and science in this country so far as we are qualified to represent it. 



Very sincerely yours, 



Waldo G. Leland 



Secretary of the Conference Board 



of Associated Research Councils 



Dr. William Duncan Strong, 

 Department of Anthropology, 

 Columbia University 

 New York 27, New York 



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