2 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Dr. Collins continued to serve as a member of the board of gover- 

 nors of the Arctic Institute of North America, as a member of its 

 publications committee and as chairman of the committees directing 

 two of the Arctic Institute's projects — a Eussian translation program 

 and the Arctic Bibliography, The latter is a comprehensive reference 

 work which abstracts and indexes in English the contents of publica- 

 tions in all languages and in all fields of science pertaining to the 

 Arctic and subarctic regions of the world. This work, which is sup- 

 ported by a number of military and civilian agencies of the United 

 States and Canada, began operating in 1947, and to date has published 

 11 large volumes containing abstracts of 69,455 scientific publications 

 on the Arctic. The other Arctic Institute project being carried out 

 imder Dr. Collins' direction. Anthropology of the North : Translations 

 from Russian Sources^ continued its operations under a renewed grant 

 from the National Science Foundation. The latest volume in the 

 translation series. Studies in Siberian Shamanism^ edited by Dr. 

 Henry N. Michael, was published by the University of Toronto Press 

 in December 1963. 



Dr. Robert L. Stephenson was transferred on September 29, 1963, 

 from chief of the Missouri Basin Project, River Basin Surveys, Lin- 

 coln, Nebr., to the regular staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 as assistant director of the River Basin Surveys. He has devoted 

 his time to familiarizing himself with the activities of the Washington 

 headquarters of the River Basin Surveys, to the general supervision of 

 that unit, and to sorting materials and writing his reports on past 

 field researches. In November he attended the Southeastern Archeo- 

 logical Conference in Macon, Ga. He spent the period November 29 

 to December 5 in Lincoln, Nebr., consulting with representatives of 

 the National Park Service and State cooperative agencies on research 

 plans for the River Basin Surveys for the coming year. On February 

 12-13 he participated in the annual meeting of the Committee for the 

 Recovery of Archeological Remains, in Washington, D.C., and de- 

 tailed the program of systematic researches of the River Basin Sur- 

 veys. During May 7-9 he attended the annual meeting of the Society 

 for American Archeology at Chapel Hill, N.C. On May 10 he was 

 the featured speaker at the semiannual meeting of the Maryland 

 Archeological Society in Washington, D.C., and presented an illus- 

 trated lecture on the "Archeology of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard 

 Area." 



During the early part of the fiscal year. Dr. William C. Sturtevant, 

 ethnologist, was engaged in completing his paper on "Studies in 

 Ethnoscience" (still in press at the end of the year) and in preparing 

 for a year's field work in Burma. In July he flew to Gainesville, Fla., 

 to work with Dr. Irving Rouse, of Yale University, and Dr. Charles 



