58 STAT.] PERU-ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH- Mar . 9, 1944 519 Aug. 4 , 1944 2 Should the enclosed draft memorandum agreement prove accept- able to Your Excellency's Government, I shall be glad, on being informed to that effect, to propose initial projects, involving the detail of personnel of the Smithsonian Institution, to be undertaken pursu- ant to the terms of the proposed memorandum agreement. I avail myself of this occasion to extend to Your Excellency the renewed assurance of my highest consideration. JEFFERSON PATTERSON Enclosure: Memorandum agreement. His Excellency Doctor ALFREDO SOLF Y MURO, Minister for ForeignAffairs, Lima, Peru. MEMORANDUM AGREEMENT As a part of its program for cooperation with the other American republics, the Government of the United States through the Insti- tute of Social Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Government of Peru through such agencies as it may designate, agree to cooperate for the following purposes: 1. To provide university and field training for students in anthro- pology and geography that will serve to equip the trainees for teach- ing and research positions in Peru when a need for teachers so trained is acknowledged to exist by the cooperating agencies of the two Governments. 2. To assist in coordinating the efforts of collaborating scientists of Peru and the United States in carrying out long-range social science studies in selected areas to be chosen by joint agreement between the cooperating agencies of the two Governments. 3. In connection with field work, to solicit the cooperation of insti- tutions not mentioned herein, when the necessity for specialized research is indicated. 4. To provide a headquarters for field research in anthropology and geography where students from the American Republics can obtain guidance and training in field work after the war. 5. To further scientific investigations in anthropology and geog- raphy as the occasion may arise. 6. To publish research findings under such auspices and in such forms and languages as in the opinion of the cooperating agencies of the two Governments may render them the most useful. Whereas the obligations to be assumed by the Government of the United States through the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution would involve primarily the detail of qual- ified scientists to Peru from time to time to assist the cooperating Peruvian agencies, the manner in which the two Governments would
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