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Miss Mae W. Tucker, he has maintained for the Ethnogeographic 

 Board the world file of area and language specialists, which has 

 grown to include more than 10,000 entries for all continents and island 

 areas. This file has been extensively used by the military and other 

 war agencies in their search for specialized personnel. From this 

 file a series of five studies were prepared, together with maps and in- 

 dexes, showing domestic sources of photographs on strategic areas 

 of interest particularly to the Navy Department. At the request 

 of the Army Specialized Training Division, the Ethnogeographic 

 Board commenced a survey of area and language teaching in the Army 

 Specialized Training Program and the Civil Affairs Training Schools 

 in 25 American universities and colleges. Dr. Fenton participated 

 in the survey, visiting 13 institutions between December 1943 and 

 March 1944, and since that time has been occupied in writing up ob- 

 servations and preparing reports for the proper offices. 



In addition to this work. Dr. Fenton continued his studies on the 

 League of the Iroquois, translating a number of texts collected by 

 J. N. B. Hewitt and A. A. Goldenweiser. Dr. Fenton's publications for 

 the year were: "The Last Passenger Pigeon Hunts of the Corn- 

 planter Senecas" {loith M. H. Deardorff), and "The Kequickening 

 Address of the Iroquois Condolence Council" {of J. N. B. Hewitt), in 

 the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences ; and an obituary, 

 "Simeon Gibson: Iroquois Informant, 1889-1943," in the American 

 Anthropologist; also several book reviews and notes in scientific and 

 literary journals. 



Since joining the staff in December 1943, Dr. Homer G. Barnett, an- 

 thropologist, has served as executive secretary of a committee formed 

 under the sponsorship of the Ethnogeographic Board for the purpose 

 of assembling data upon the existing state of our scientific knowl- 

 edge of the Pacific Island area. The committee includes representa- 

 tives of the geological, geographic, linguistic, political science, and 

 anthropological disciplines. As executive secretary Dr. Barnett 

 has served chiefly as organizer and coordinator of the committee's ac- 

 tions. Since some of the committee members are located outside of 

 Washington, considerable correspondence has been necessary as well 

 as meetings both in Washington and New York. 



When not engaged in the above activities. Dr. Barnett has worked 

 on the organization of field notes on various Salishan and Northwest 

 Coast tribes, having in project a series of publications stressing cul- 

 tural change among the Yurok, the Tsimshian, the Yakima, and the 

 Makah. He has just completed one manuscript dealing with the 

 Indian Shaker cult of the northwestern United States. 



