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to serve as a member of the Institute's publications committee and as 

 chairman of the directing committee which is responsible for prepara- 

 tion of the Arctic Bibliography^ a reference work which summarizes 

 and indexes the contents of scientific publications in all fields, and in 

 all languages, pertaining to the Arctic and subarctic regions of the 

 world. The material for Volume 11 of the bibliography, edited by 

 Marie Tremaine, was delivered to the Government Printing Office in 

 October 1962. Approximately 1,500 pages in size, it will contain 

 abstracts in English of 6,607 publications, of which 2,990 are of books, 

 monographs, and papers published in Russian, 2,638 in English, and 

 979 in Scandinavian, German, French, and other languages. Ameri- 

 can scientists and others interested in following the course of scientific 

 research and economic and social developments in the northern parts 

 of the Soviet Union find the bibliography a valuable source of informa- 

 tion, including as it does English abstracts of Soviet publications on 

 such widely varied subjects as acclimatization, acculturation, adminis- 

 tration and government, aerial mapping and reconnaissance, agri- 

 culture, archeology, botany and zoology, construction, economic condi- 

 tions, education, electric power, fishes and fisheries, forestry, geology 

 and geophysics, hydrology, ice navigation, maps and mapping, 

 meteorology, mineral resources, mines and mining, oceanography, pale- 

 ontology, public health and medicine, petroleum, petrology, railroads, 

 transportation, wildlife conservation and management, etc. Abstracts 

 of anthropological publications have formed a substantial part of the 

 Arctic Bibliography from the beginning of the project. An attempt 

 has been made, with considerable success, to summarize and index the 

 contents of every paper that has been written on the Eskimos of 

 Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland; the Tlingit, Haida, and 

 Tsimshian Indians of the ISTorthwest Coast ; the northern Athapaskans 

 and Algonkians ; and the native peoples of northern Eurasia. 



The Arctic Institute's Eussian translation project — Anthropology 

 of the North: Translations from Eussian Sources — which Dr. CoUms 

 organized in 1960, continued its operations under a renewed grant 

 from the National Science Foundation and the editorship of Dr. Henry 

 N. Michael. The third volume of the series, an English translation of 

 the late M. G. Levin's definitive work on the anthropology of north- 

 eastern Asia (Ethnic Origins of the Peoples of Northeastern Asia), 

 was published by the University of Toronto Press in May 1963. Addi- 

 tional translations of Eussian publications on Arctic anthropology 

 are in the course of preparation. 



Dr. William C. Sturtevant attended the 35th International Congress 

 of Americanists (Mexico City, August 19-25), the joint annual meet- 

 ings of the American Indian Ethnohistoric Conference and the Con- 

 ference on Iroquois Eesearch (Albany, October 12-14) , the 61st annual 



