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be examined immediately before they are covered and lost. Certain paleontological deposits also are included. Funds are to be transferred to the Institution from the Department of the Interior to finance this work, and the Institution has entered into a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service concerning it. The work now projected will be in part in the Missouri Basin, but will extend also to the Etowah and Savannah Rivers in Georgia, the Warrior River in Alabama, the Neches, Trinity and Brazos Rivers in Texas, and the Arkansas River and its tributaries in Arkansas and Oklahoma. 

Dr. M. W. Stifling, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, is in Mexico for his eighth season under a cooperative arrangement with the National Geographic Society, for archeological studies of the earliest of the great civilizations known in that country, the Olmec. He will be in extreme southwest Veracruz where he has located a set of mounds that has been wholly unknown. 

Four volumes of the Handbook of South American Indians, prepared under the editorship of Dr. Julian Steward, are now in press, and the fifth and final one is in the final stages of editing. This work has been sponsored by the Interdepartmental Committee on Cultural and Scientific Cooperation of the State Department. 

Institute of Social Anthropology: This is an autonomous unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology, financed by funds transferred from the State Department, that sends Smithsonian scientists to other American Republics to train local students in social science research through teaching in the laboratory and field. The work is carried on in cooperation with local institutions in the country concerned. At present we are operating in Mexico, Peru, and Brazil, with one scholarship in Columbia. 

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