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Mato Grosso. On both of these trips he was accompanied by students 

 from the Escola Livre. 



Colombia. — Dr. John H. Kowe returned to the United States from 

 Popay^n, Colombia, in September to accept a permanent position at 

 the University of California. Dr. Kaymond E. Crist, professor of 

 geography at the University of Maryland, was employed in February 

 1949 on a temporary basis to replace Dr. Rowe. In the short time 

 Dr. Crist has been in Popay^n he has given courses and lectures in the 

 Universidad del Cauca, dealing with Iberian cultm-e and its dissemina- 

 tion in the New World, and with geographic methods and theories. 

 He has made several short field trips to small communities near 

 Popaydn, and has been host to the American Ambassador, Willard L. 

 Beaulac, who, with his private party, flew from Bogota for the express 

 purpose of becoming acquainted with the work of the Institute in 

 Popaydn. 



Mexico, — Dr. Isabel Kelly, social anthropologist, continued to repre- 

 sent the Institute at the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico 

 City, giving anthropology courses and guiding independent research 

 of students. A part of the spring of 1949 again was spent in the 

 Totonac area, where final field notes on this group were taken, prepara- 

 tory to writing a monograph describing the results of three seasons of 

 work. Dr. Stanley Newman, linguist, resigned from the Institute 

 in February 1949, to accept a position at the University of New 

 Mexico. Up to this time be continued his teaching schedule at the 

 Escuela. His research included investigations of the Otomi and 

 Nahuatl Indian languages, and participation in the literacy campaign 

 of the Mexican Government. A significant paper on the Otomi 

 language was completed, and a major monograph on Nahuatl was 

 undertaken. 



Peru. — Dr. Allan Holmberg resigned from the Institute in August 

 1948 to accept a permanent position at Cornell University. He was 

 immediately replaced by Dr. George Kubler, of Yale University, who 

 arrived in Lima early in September. Dr. Kubler continued teaching 

 projects in the Instituto de Estudios Etnol6gicos, and also gave a 

 course in the University of San Marcos. He devoted much atten- 

 tion to the social history of the colonial period in Peru, with particular 

 emphasis on demography, and shifts in populations during this period. 

 This work will to a considerable extent close the gap between the 

 data of archeological studies in the Virii Valley in north Peril, made 

 by Smithsonian and other scientists, and the contemporary studies 

 made by Dr. Holmberg and teachers and students of the Instituto 

 de Estudios Etnoldgicos, thus completing one of the longest sequences 

 of culture history known from any part of the world. Dr. Kubler 

 made a brief trip in March 1949 to Bogotd and Popaydn, to investigate 



