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by the Ethnogeographic Board from the armed services and other 

 war agencies. One of the results of his work has been a strategic file 

 of personnel in the United States familiar with foreign countries. 

 Growing out of the Eoster of Personnel, World Travel, and Special 

 Knowledge Available to War Agencies at the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, as first compiled by the Smithsonian War Committee early 

 in 1942, the present World File of Kegional Specialists at the Eth- 

 nogeographic Board now includes over 2,500 names of individuals, 

 their travel and special knowledge. Cross-indexed by name, as well 

 as by country, this index has enabled the Director of the Board to 

 locate promptly any person in response to requests from the armed 

 forces for authorities who might possess unusual information, photo- 

 graphs, maps, and knowledge of languages of a given area. Certain 

 officers as well as civilian specialists have returned repeatedly to the 

 Smithsonian building to consult this file. In recognition of this 

 work, in February Dr. Fenton was elected a research associate of 

 the Ethnogeographic Board. 



At the request of the War Department, Office of Chief of Engi- 

 neers, to the Institution, Dr. Fenton delivered a lecture on "The 

 Nature and Diversity of Human Culture" to a class in Psychology 

 of Administration. 



Dr. Fenton has continued membership on the Smithsonian War 

 Committee, acting as its secretary. 



Work on the Indian place names of western New York and west- 

 ern Pennsylvania has continued by correspondence with Messrs. M. 

 H. Deardorff, Warren, Pa., and Chas. E. Congdon, of Salamanca, 

 N. Y. At the end of the fiscal year, another correspondent. Dr. 

 Elizabeth L. Moore, of Meredith College, had about completed the 

 translation of J. F. Lafitau's Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains (2 

 vols., Paris, 1724) , a project reported last year. 



Publications for the year include : Songs from the Iroquois Long- 

 house: Program Notes for an Album of American Indian Music 

 from the Eastern Woodlands, published jointly by the Smithsonian 

 Institution and the Library of Congress as vol. 6 of Folk Music of 

 the United States (Archive of American Folk Song) ; Contacts be- 

 tween Iroquois Herbalism and Colonial Medicine, in Smithsonian 

 Report for 1941 ; Last Seneca Pigeon Hunts, in Warren County Penn- 

 sylvania Almanac, 1943; and Fish Drives among the Cornplanter 

 Seneca, in Pennsylvania Archaeologist; also several book reviews in 

 professional and other journals. At the close of the fiscal year, the 

 paper entitled "The Last Passenger Pigeon Hunts of the Cornplanter 

 Senecas," which had been prepared with M. H. Deardorff for the 

 Anthropological Papers of the Bureau, had been accepted for pub- 

 lication in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 



