SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 3 



in Alaska and northern Canada were financed in large part by the 

 office of Naval Eesearch and the Canadian Government. 



Dr. Collins continued to serve as chairman of the Directing Com- 

 mittee for the Arctic Institute's Bibliography and Koster projects. 

 This committee selected personnel and put into operation these two 

 projects — the preparation of a comprehensive annotated and indexed 

 bibliography on the Arctic, and a roster of Arctic specialists. The 

 projects are supported by funds from the Office of Naval Eesearch, 

 the Army, and the Defense Eesearch Board of Canada. The bibliog- 

 raphy project, with four expert bibliographers and three assistants, 

 is under way at the Library of Congress; the roster project, with a 

 director and assistant, has been given office space in the building of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



At the invitation of the Canadian Government, Dr. Collins left 

 Washington late in June to conduct archeological work for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and the National Museum of Canada in the northern 

 part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. 



At the beginning of the year Dr. William N. Fenton was on leave 

 while teaching in the summer session of Northwestern University 

 (June 23 to August 23), where he was invited to occupy the post of 

 professor in the department of anthropology during that quarter. 

 "While in the Chicago area, he was able to spend considerable time 

 examining rare books and manuscripts in the Ayer Collection of the 

 Newberry Library and to study ethnological collections from the 

 Iroquois Indians in the Milwaukee Public Museum and in the Chicago 

 Natural History Museum. Ee turning. Dr. Fenton spent the first 2 

 weeks of September at field work among the Seneca Indians of Alle- 

 gany Eeservation in western New York. 



Teaching a course in primitive political institutions suggested a 

 plan for undertaking a comprehensive political history of the League 

 of the Iroquois which would attempt to test the findings of ethnology 

 in the historian's traditional materials. The documentary materials 

 on the Six Nations comprising the Iroquois League for the Federal 

 Period alone and for the succeeding first decade of the nineteenth 

 century exist in several large collections of papers which have not 

 been used extensively by historians of Federal and Indian political 

 relations. First, the papers of Samuel Kirkland (1741-1808) contain 

 interesting sidelights on the political activities of the Six Nations, 

 covering missionary activities among the Oneida, Tuscarora, and 

 Seneca tribes ; the correspondence of an agent of the American Eevo- 

 lution; and the gradual civilization pf the native Indians. Exami- 

 nation of the Kirkland papers at Hamilton College was begun in 

 September with the help of M. H. Deardorff of Warren, Pa., and 

 Charles E. Congdon, an alumnus. The project is indebted to Dr. 

 Arthur C. Parker of Naples, N. Y., for the loan of a Seneca Census of 



