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Dr. Koberts also worked on his final report on the excavations at 

 the Lindenmeier Folsom Man site in northern Colorado, a project 

 completed shortly before the outbreak of the war, and also wrote a 

 number of articles for publication in scientific journals. On March 16, 

 1944, Dr. Eoberts was appointed a member of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution's Committee on Personnel Utilization and from that date until 

 the close of the fiscal year devoted considerable time to the activities 

 of that committee. 



During such periods as the Chief was absent from Washington, 

 Dr. Koberts served as Acting Chief of the Bureau. 



On September 1, 1943, Dr. Julian H. Steward, anthropologist, was 

 appointed Director of the Institute of Social Anthropology, an autono- 

 mous unit of the Bureau, reporting directly to the Secretary. His 

 work as editor of the Handbook of South American Indians also con- 

 tinued concurrently. A brief statement on these two projects will be 

 found later on in this report. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Alfred Metraux, ethnologist, 

 was teaching in Mexico City, through an arrangement with the Na- 

 tional University of Mexico. He returned to duty on August 1, 1943, 

 and assisted Dr. Julian H. Steward in the preparation of the Hand- 

 book of South American Indians. Dr. Metraux was appointed Assist- 

 ant Director of the Institute of Social Anthropology on September 18, 

 1943. He completed four papers for the Handbook, and also gathered 

 bibliographical material for several other contributions and assembled 

 notes for the articles of the Handbook's fifth volume. 



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

 tinued his work as Assistant Director of the Ethnogeographic Board. 

 As in the previous year, the activities of the Board for which he was 

 responsible concerned research in connection with regional and other 

 information requested by the Army, Navy, and other war agencies. 

 He represented the Smithsonian Institution and the Ethnogeographic 

 Board as a technical adviser to the Emergency Kescue Equipment Sec- 

 tion of the Navy and wrote the Arctic section for the booklet "Survival 

 on Land and Sea." Some 750,000 copies of this official Navy survival 

 manual have been distributed to the fleet and shore stations. 



Dr. Collins contributed the sections on geography, history, and 

 anthropology for an article on the Aleutian Islands, which will be 

 published as one of the series of War Background Studies of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



During such time as was available, Dr. Collins continued his re- 

 searches on the Eskimo and the southeastern Indians. 



Dr. William N. Fenton, ethnologist, continued to serve as research 

 associate of the Ethnogeographic Board. With the assistance of 



