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ence on Indian Life, for which he prepared a paper. He served as 

 President of the Anthropological Society of Washington. 



Dr. Fenton published several papers on anthropological subjects in 

 various journals during the year. 



The research activities of Dr. Gordon R. Willey, anthropologist, 

 during the year were confined principally to study of data and mate- 

 rials previously obtained in the field. They included the final prepa- 

 ration of a monograph, "Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast,'' a 

 culmination of studies begun by the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 as early as 1923, with Dr. Willey engaged on the project since 1940. 

 The war and other duties interrupted the completion of the manuscript, 

 but it is now in process of publication by the Smithsonian. Eight 

 other manuscripts by Dr. Willey are in press or awaiting publication, 

 and four additional manuscripts are in preparation: "Ancon-Supe: 

 Formative Period Sites of Central Peril" (with J. M. Corbett aud 

 L. M. O'Neale) ; "Huari, an Important Site in the Central Peruvian 

 Highlands" (with D. CoUier and J. H. Eowe); "Prehistoric Settle- 

 ment Patterns in the Virii Valley, Peril," and "Archaeological Explora- 

 tions in the Parita Zone, Panamd." 



Dr. Willey served in a consultative capacity for the period of final 

 editing of volumes 5 and 6 of the Handbook of South American Indi- 

 ans (Bureau Bulletin 143) and also assisted with certain administrative 

 matters concerned with the Smithsonian Eiver Basin Surveys. 



Dr. Willey participated in a series of round-table discussions under 

 the leadership of Dr. A. L. Kroeber during the months October 

 through February. These meetings, held at Columbia University, 

 New York, were concerned with general discussions of anthropological 

 method and theory. Throughout the year he served as assistant 

 editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies of the Library of 

 Congress Hispanic Foundation. He also served as assistant editor of 

 the journal American Antiquity, with reference to the South American 

 area. 



From March through May Dr. Willey served as Smithsonian repre- 

 sentative at several committee meetings of the State Department 

 Committee for Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, and at an open 

 meeting of the Caribbean Commission. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES 



Miss Frances Densmore, collaborator of the Bureau, submitted to 

 the Bureau a manuscript entitled "Musical Customs of the Indians of 

 the Parang, Delta and La Plata Littoral and the Gran Chaco." 



INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 



The Institute of Social Anthropology was created in 1943 as an 

 autonomous unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology to carry out 



