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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   1274

Canal Zone Biological Area. Mr. Tom Clark, Fiscal Officer for the Institution, went to the Canal Zone in October to confer with the resident manager of the Canal Zone Biological Area relative to handling of accounts, and also to check on the method of inventory now that this unit is formally under governmental procedures. Scientific work at the laboratory is now on a pre-war basis but much repair and renovation is necessary to correct deterioration in structures during the war period.

Institute of Social Anthropology. The Institute of Social Anthropology, organized for instruction and field work in modern social studies, is operating in México in cooperation with the Escuela Nacional de Anthropología, of Mexico City, in Perú with the Instituto de Estudios Etnológicos of Lima, and in Brazil with the Escola Livre de Sociologia de Politica of São Paulo.

Astrophysical Observatory. In the Astrophysical Observatory work on the elements in radiation that cause deterioration in textiles was continued under contract with the office of the Quartermaster General. The studies begun at Camp Lee, Virginia, were continued, and a sea level station was established at Miami, Florida. Similar installations were made at our observatory at Montezuma, Chile, a dry, high-altitude locality.

Bureau of American Ethnology. In the Bureau of American Ethnology the Chief, Dr. Matthew W. Stirling, is now in Panamá organizing archeological explorations in the western part of the Republic. Here he will search for indications of pre-Colombian contact between the two great Indian civilizations of the New World, the one in southern México and Central America, and the other in northwestern

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