4 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



of darkness, light, and low temperature on man, animals, and plants; 

 Eskimos; expeditions, especially Russian; fishes and fisheries; frost- 

 bite ; geology ; hypothermia ; ice and ice conditions ; insects ; meteorol- 

 ogy ; physiology, human and animal ; Siberian native peoples ; snow ; 

 transportation. These and some 230 other topics are listed alpha- 

 betically in the index and, as necessary, also under the name of the 

 particular locality or major geographical region to which they per- 

 tain. Heretofore the Arctic Bibliography has been supported almost 

 entirely by the Department of Defense. During the past year addi- 

 tional generous support has been provided by the National Science 

 Foundation, the JN'ational Institutes of Health, and the National 

 Geographic Society. 



Dr. Collins also made plans for a Russian translation project 

 whereby the Arctic Institute, with the support of the National Science 

 Foundation, would make available to American anthropologists 

 translations of Russian publications on the archeology, ethnology, 

 and physical anthropology of Siberia. 



Dr. William C. Sturtevant, ethnologist, spent the first part of the 

 fiscal year in Washington at work on various projects related to his 

 Seminole and Seneca research. He also prepared for publication a 

 paper on the economic uses of Zamia, a cycad with a large under- 

 ground stem from which starch has been extracted for centuries by 

 various Indian and other inhabitants of the West Indies and Florida. 

 Another paper brought to completion reconsiders, with negative re- 

 sults, the ethnological evidence for contacts between Indians of the 

 southeastern United States and the West Indies (previously widely 

 considered to have been quite significant for the history of the culture 

 of the southeastern tribes). Brief papers were completed on the his- 

 tory of the classification of eastern Siouan languages (published in 

 American Anthropologist)^ on the authorship of J. W. Powell's 

 famous classification of North American Indian languages published 

 by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1892, and on two new tech- 

 niques for ethnographic fieldwork. Dr. Sturtevant's pamphlet 

 "Anthropology as a Career," issued by the Institution in July 1958, 

 proved so useful to students and their advisers throughout the country 

 that a second printing was required in May 1959. 



In mid-February Dr. Sturtevant left for Florida to begin 6 months' 

 fieldwork among the Seminole Indians, with the support of a grant 

 from the National Science Foundation. This was a continuation of 

 the fieldwork Dr. Sturtevant conducted among these people before 

 joining the Smithsonian staff. Besides filling in gaps in informa- 

 tion obtained during previous trips, Dr. Sturtevant has concentrated 

 on studying Seminole knowledge and uses of plants, both wild and 

 cultivated. These Indians are the only ones in the eastern United 



