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showed Dr. Collins the materials from a stratified cave near Basel, 

 where Tardenoisian was found overlying the older Sauveterrien, and 

 Dr. R. Wyss showed him materials, now in process of publication, from 

 early Mesolithic sites in the vicinity of Scliotz, Canton Luzern. Drs. 

 E. Vogt and Joseph Speck made available the extensive Mesolithic and 

 Neolithic study materials in the Schweizer Landesmuseum, Zurich, 

 and Museum f iir Urgeschichte, Zug. Other Swiss museums in which 

 similar collections were studied were the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, 

 Fribourg; Museum Schwab in Biel; Ileimatmuseum, Rorschach; 

 Musee d'Art et d'Histoire de Geneve; Historisches Museum, St. 

 Gallen; Historisches Museum, Baden; Gletschergarten Museum, 

 Luzern; Musee Archeologique et Historique, Lausanne; and Heimat- 

 museum, Schotz. The extensive Mesolithic collections from Scandi- 

 navia in the National Museum, Copenhagen, were examined during 

 the time Dr. Collins was there as a delegate to the o2d Session of the 

 International Congress of Americanists. At the Museum of Far East 

 Antiquities in Stockholm, through the kindness of Drs. Karlgren and 

 Sommerstrom, he was able to study the rich collection of tjrtiijicts 

 from Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in Inner Mongolia obtained by 

 the late Dr. Folke IVergman, arclieologist of the KSven Hedin Expedi- 

 tion. The firsthand knowledge of the Mesolithic materials from 

 Eurasia gained from the museum survey will make possible a more 

 precise evaluation of the relationship betAveen the Old World Meso- 

 lithic and the early Eskimo and pre-Eskimo cultures of the American 

 Arctic. The results will be incorporated in reports describing and 

 interpreting tlie Arctic materials, including those excavated on South- 

 ampton Island in 1954 and 1955. 



Preliminary reports on the early Dorset materials from Southamp- 

 ton Island have been published in the Annual Report of the National 

 Museum of Canada and in Anthropological Papers of the University 

 of Alaska. A popular article on the work was published in the Na- 

 tional Geographic Magazine for November 1956, and a general article 

 on the same subject appeared in the Smithsonian iimiual Report for 

 1956. An article on Eskimo archeology was prepared for the next 

 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Dr. Collins continued to 

 serve as chairman of the directing committee of Arctic Bibliography^ 

 an annotated and indexed bibliography of Arctic publications in all 

 fields of science, wliich is being prepared for the Department of De- 

 fense by the Arctic Institute of North America. Volume 7 of tlie 

 Bibliograj)hy was issued by the Government Printing OfHce in June 

 1956, and the material for volume 8 will be turned over to the printer 

 in July. 



Dr. William C. Sturtevant, ethnologist, divided his time principally 

 between continuing his studies of the Florida Seminole (begun before 

 joining the Bureau) and initiating new studies among the Seneca. 



