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pology auspices since Dr. Stanley Newman left three years ago. Two 

 courses were given, one on general linguistics and the other on mor- 

 phology and syntax. 



Peru. — Ozzie G. Simmons continued his teaching activities at the 

 Instituto de Estudios Etnologicos in Lima. Field studies, in which 

 several Peruvian students participated, were initiated in the non- 

 Indian village of Lunahuana, in the upper Canete Valley, south of 

 Lima. This work, when completed in 1951, will still further broaden 

 our knowledge of contemporary Peruvian rural culture, which already 

 includes the villages of Moche (Gillin), Sicaya (Tschopik, Muelle, 

 and Escobar) , and Viru (Holmberg and Muelle) . During April Mr. 

 Simmons carried out his part of the health-center investigations, 

 studying the Lima center in Kimac barrio, and the center in Chim- 

 bote, on the north coast of Peru. 



Washington. — ^Dr. Gordon K. Willey served as Acting Director of 

 the Institute until September, at which time he went to Harvard Uni- 

 versity as Bowditch Professor of Mexican and Central American 

 Archeology and Ethnology. 



Dr. George M. Foster returned in September from a year's field 

 trip to Spain to resume duties as Director of the Institute. While in 

 Spain, Dr. Foster worked with Dr. Julio Caro Baroja, director of the 

 Museo del Pueblo Espanol in Madrid, making a general survey, based 

 on printed sources and field studies, of Spanish ethnography. Dr. 

 Foster's part of the work was oriented toward the historical and theo- 

 retical problems involved in the carrying of Spanish culture to the 

 New World, and its assimilation with native American culture. This 

 work was planned to give added depth and background to the 

 continuing studies of Institute and cooperating Latin American 

 personnel. 



Dr. Foster made a month's trip in March to Guatemala, Colombia, 

 and Peru, for the purpose of consulting with Institute field personnel, 

 and appraising the new Guatemalan project as well as the newly 

 opened Bogota office. Consultations were also held with heads of the 

 participating national institutions in all three countries. Dr. Foster 

 spent much of the month of June in assembling the health center's 

 report. 



EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 



There were issued one Annual Report and two Bulletins (one a 

 volume of the Handbook of South American Indians), and two Pub- 

 lications of the Institute of Social Anthropology, as listed below: 



Sixty-seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1949-50. 

 11+25 pp. 1951. 



Bulletin 143. Handbook of South American Indians. Julian H. Steward, 

 editor. Volume 6, Physical anthropology, linguistics, and cultural geography 

 of South Ajnerican Indians, xiii+715 pp., 47 pis., 3 figs., 18 maps. 1950. 



