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THE report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ending June 30, 1942, includes the financial report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents, together with a summary of the year's activities and reports on the United States National Museum, the National Gallery of Arts, the National Collection of Fine Arts, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the International Exchange Service, the National Zoological Park, the Astro-physical Observatory, the Division of Radiation and Organisms and on the Library. A War Committee has been appointed to facilitate the assistance of the war effort by the Institution, and in addition to preparing a detailed roster of the scientific staff, an index has been compiled of published and unpublished photographs taken by the scientific members of the Institution in all parts of the world for ready consultation by war agencies. Together with the National Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, the Institution has participated actively in setting up the Ethno-geographic Board. Under the editorship of Dr. Julian H. Steward of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Institution has undertaken the publication of a handbook on the Indians of South America.
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Smithsonian Institution. Nature 151, 583–584 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151583c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151583c0