SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 3 



various regional art styles, ancient and modern, in Alaska, Canada, 

 and Greenland. He also prepared an article on the relationships of 

 the earliest Eskimo cultures to recently discovered pre-Eskimo cul- 

 tures in the western Arctic for a volume on early man in the western 

 Arctic to be published by the University of Alaska. 



Dr. Collins continued to serve as a member of the Board of Gov- 

 ernors of the Arctic Institute of North America and as a member 

 of its publications committee responsible for the quarterly journal 

 Arctic and the two other Arctic Institute series, Technical Papers 

 and Special Publications. He also continued to serve as chairman 

 of the directing committee which plans and supervises preparation 

 of the Arctic Bibliography^ a comprehensive reference work which 

 abstracts and indexes the contents of publications in all fields of sci- 

 ence, and in all languages, relating to the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions 

 of the world. This Arctic Institute project, for which Dr. Collins 

 has been primarily responsible since its inception in 1947, is being 

 supported by grants and allotments from the Department of Defense, 

 National Institutes of Health, Atomic Energy Commission, and De- 

 fense Eesearch Board of Canada. The Library of Congress provides 

 office space, and most of the work of compilation and editing is done 

 there under the direction of Miss Marie Tremaine. In addition to 

 \}m unsurpassed collections of the Library of Congress, those of the 

 Smithsonian Library and 80 other large libraries in the United States 

 and Canada, as well as of polar research institutes in England, France, 

 and Norway, are being utilized in the preparation of the bibliography. 

 Volume 10 was issued by the Government Printing Office in December 

 1961, and volume 11 is ready for the printer. Volume 10 ( 1,520 pages) 

 abstracts and indexes the contents of 6,570 scientific publications on 

 Arctic and sub-Arctic areas and on low temperature conditions ; added 

 to the abstracts appearing in the previous nine volumes, this makes a 

 total of 62,848 such publications abstracted to date. In volume 10, 

 for the first time, Eussian language material exceeds that in English, 

 reflecting expanded research activities of Soviet scientists in their 

 Arctic territories; the volume contains abstracts, all in English, of 

 3,075 Russian publications, of 2,503 publications in English, 513 Scan- 

 dinavian, 212 German, and 267 in other languages. Subjects that 

 have received special emphasis in this volume are geology, geophysics, 

 mineral resources, meteorology, fisheries, oceanography, transporta- 

 tion, construction, economic and social conditions, anthropology and 

 acculturation of Eskimos and native Siberian peoples, acclimatization, 

 military and public health, diseases, and the environmental effects of 

 darkness, humidity, light, and low temperature on animals, man, and 

 plants. 



Dr. William C. Sturtevant, ethnologist, continued his research re- 



