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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [58 STAT. March 9 and August4,1944 Agreement between the United States of America and Peru regarding [E. A. S.43] anthropological research and investigation. Effected by exchange of notes signed at Lima March 9 and August 4, 1944. The American Embassy to the PeruvianMinistry for ForeignAffairs EMBASSY OF THE UNrrED STATES OF AMERICA No. 1719 Lima, March 9, 1944. EXCELLENCY: I have the honor, at the instance of my Government and as a sequel to a communication of January 28, 1944, received in the Embassy from Dr. Luis E. Valcarcel, Director of the National Museum of Lima expressing the interest of that organization in obtaining the services of scientists of the Smithsonian Institution qualified in the field of anthropology, to state that the Institute of Social Anthropol- ogy of the Smithsonian Institute is now prepared to cooperate with the appropriate Peruvian authorities in the conduct of anthropological research and investigation at Lima, Cuzco, and elsewhere under the general program of the Interdepartmental Committee on Coopera- tion with the American Republics. The purposes of the project in Peru would include the provision of university and field training for students in anthropology and geography, assistance in coordinating the efforts of collaborating scientists of Peru and the United States in carrying out long-range social science studies in selected areas, the provision of headquarters for field research where students from the American republics could obtain guidance and training in field work after the war, and the publication of research findings, et cetera. In order to facilitate this proposed collaboration, should it be found acceptable to Your Excellency's Government, there is transmitted a draft informal memorandum agreement for the consideration of the appropriate Peruvian authorities. In the event that the pro- posal is considered acceptable, Your Excellency's reply to that effect would complete the agreement. It will not be necessary that the memorandum be signed. It will be noted that the draft constitutes a proposal whereby the Governments of the two countries would agree to cooperate through the appropriate agencies for the accomplishment of certain broad objectives, on the understanding that whereas the obligations to be assumed by the Government of the United States would involve pri- marily the detail of qualified scientists to Peru from time to time, the manner in which the various phases of the cooperation would be carried out would be made the subject of separate projects to be approved by both Governments in advance of their execution.

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