4 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Dr. Henry B. Collins, ethnologist, continued his investigations in 

 Eskimo anthropology. During the winter he completed the number- 

 ing and cataloging of his collection of some 7,000 archeological speci- 

 mens excavated at Cape Prince of Wales and other prehistoric Eskimo 

 village sites around Bering Strait. 



At the February meeting of the Board of Governors of the Arctic 

 Institute of North America, Dr. Collins was elected vice chairman of 

 the Institute. His article, The Origin and Antiquity of the Eskimo, 

 tracing the Old World affiliations of the Eskimo culture and race type, 

 will appear as one of the chapters of a general book on the Arctic to be 

 published by the Arctic Institute. 



In May Dr. Collins was appointed Chairman of the Directing Com- 

 mittee for the Arctic Bibliography and Koster, two separate projects 

 which the Arctic Institute of North America is carrying out under 

 contract for the Office of Naval Kesearch of the Navy Department. 

 In these projects the Arctic Institute is receiving active cooperation 

 and assistance from the Library of Congress and the National Ke- 

 search Council. Officials of the latter organizations, and representa- 

 tives of the Navy, Army, and Board of Governors of the Arctic Insti- 

 tute comprise the directing committee, which serves as a policy and 

 advisory body with the responsibility of organizing and supervising 

 the work on the two projects. The bibliography project will be con- 

 ducted by four experienced bibliographers, with clerical assistants, 

 working in the principal libraries in the United States and Canada. 

 It will have as its objective the compilation of an annotated, fully 

 indexed bibliography covering the descriptive, geographical, and 

 other scientific literature on the Arctic from the earliest historical 

 writings to those of the present time. It is estimated that the bibli- 

 ography project will require at least 3 years for completion. The 

 Roster of Arctic Specialists, a 2-year project, is to be conducted by a 

 staff of three workers, headed by a former official of the National 

 Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. The roster will be 

 patterned after the National Roster and the World Roster of Area 

 and Language Specialists compiled by the Ethnogeographic Board 

 during the war. Its purpose will be to assemble a comprehensive 

 record of the experience and specialized knowledge of scientists, ex- 

 plorers, writers, and Arctic residents who possess first-hand informa- 

 tion of value concerning the Arctic and sub- Arctic regions. 



Dr. Collins wrote the article Anthropology for the 1947 Encyclo- 

 paedia Britannica Book of the Year. He also served as anthro- 

 pological consultant for the Encyclopedia Arctica, which is being edited 

 by Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson for the Navy Department. In this 

 capacity he organized the anthropological sections of the Encyclo- 

 pedia and contributed several articles on archeological subjects. 



