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to its prewar basis, and for supplies and materials required in operations now that these are becoming available. The addition to the appropriations mentioned earlier is essential to this.

International Exchange Service: By the end of the war nearly 4,000 boxes of publications for distribution abroad were on hand, with more held at the source. The Institution began shipments during the summer and fall to France, Belgium, Holland, the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland and Italy, in part through assistance of the Office of War Information.

The first Deficiency bill carried $47,000 to place the Exchange Service on its prewar basis as regard personnel and other funds. This money is now available and the work is being reorganized as rapidly as practicable. The Institution has notified the government departments and other American establishments that it can now accept their consignments. Consignments of books and other publications issued abroad during the war have begun to arrive.

Ethnogeographic Board: The sponsors of this wartime agency, operated at the Institution to furnish data for war use, have agreed that its work will cease, with fighting at an end, as soon as the history of its activities has been completed, and after its records and reports of a permanent nature are in proper shape. The Board is now under the supervision of Dr. Henry B. Collins, Jr., of the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Arctic Institute: Through Dr. Collins the Institution is cooperating in the work of the recently organized Arctic Institute which is to encourage scientific work in Alaska, Canada and Greenland. The headquarters office is located in Montreal.

A.W.