SIXTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 5 



Dr. Steward took an active part in the creation of the Inter- Ameri- 

 can Society of Anthropology and Geography, the purpose of which 

 is the development of cooperative anthropological and geographic re- 

 search. Dr. Eaiph L. Beals was appointed to take over the work of 

 organizing and developing the society. The society has approxi- 

 mately 700 members throughout the Americas, and the first issue of its 

 quarterly journal, Acta Americana, was in press at the close of the 

 fiscal year. 



Plans were developed for cooperative Institutes of Social Anthro- 

 pology to assist in training students and in carrying on field work 

 in the other American republics. 



Dr. Steward served as a member of committees concerned with co- 

 operative work in the field of inter-American relations and was a 

 member of the Board of Governors of the National Indian Institute 

 of the United States. He also represented the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion at the inauguration of Dr. Everett Needham Case as president of 

 Colgate University. 



Dr. Alfred Metraux, ethnologist, continued his work as assistant to 

 Dr. Julian H. Steward in preparing the Handbook of South American 

 Indians. In addition to editing materials furnished by other contribu- 

 tors. Dr. Metraux completed a large amount of manuscript material 

 of his own for use in the Handbook. Through an arrangement with 

 the National University of Mexico, Dr. Metraux went to Mexico City 

 to teach from March until the end of the fiscal year. During the year 

 Dr. Metraux's paper entitled "The Native Tribes of Eastern Bolivia 

 and Western Matto Grosso" was issued as Bulletin 134 of the Bureau. 



During the fiscal year Dr. Henry B. Collins, Jr., ethnologist, was 

 engaged in work relating to the war, for the most part in connection 

 with the Ethnogeographic Board. Early in July 1942 Dr. Collins 

 was detailed by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and by 

 the Chief of the Bureau to assist in handling requests for regional 

 and other information received by the Ethnogeographic Board from 

 the armed services and other war agencies. On February 28, 1943, 

 he was elected Assistant Director of the Board and in this capacity 

 continued in charge of research relating to the above-mentioned re- 

 quests. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. William N. Fenton, as- 

 sociate anthropologist, was engaged, at the request of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Historical Commission, in a brief field trip among the Seneca 

 Indians on the Cornplanter Grant in northwestern Pennsylvania, 

 The object of this work was to collect Indian geographic names and 

 traditions on hunting and fishing along the Allegheny River. 



Following his return to Washington, Dr. Fenton devoted most 

 of his time during the remainder of the year to projects received 



