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National Museum of Canada and the other for Anthropological Papers 

 of the University of Alaska. "Archaeological Research in the Ameri- 

 can Arctic," a general article describing the current status of Arctic 

 archeology, was published in Arctic Research, Special Publication 

 No. 2 of the Arctic Institute of North America. Dr. Collins continued 

 to serve as a member of the Board of Governors of the Arctic Institute 

 of North America and of its committee on research. As chairman of 

 the Directing Committee of Arctic Bibliography, he continued to 

 supervise the preparation of this work, a comprehensive annotated 

 bibliography which lists and summarizes the contents of publications 

 in all fields of science relating to the Arctic and sub- Arctic regions of 

 the world. Volume 6 of the Bibliography, 1,208 pages, was issued 

 by the Government Printing Office in April 1956, and material for 

 volume 7, of approximately the same size, was turned over to the 

 printer in June. Funds for the preparation of an eighth volume were 

 obtained from the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, 

 and the Defense Research Board of Canada. As a member of the 

 Permanent Council and the Organizing Committee of the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Dr. 

 Collins participated in the work of planning for the fifth session of 

 the Congress to be held in Philadelphia, September 1-9, 1956. At the 

 close of the fiscal year Dr. Collins was in Europe, making a survey of 

 Mesolithic materials in museums for their possible bearing on the 

 Eskimo problem. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Philip Drucker was in 

 Mexico finishing up his fieldwork at La Venta, studying the material 

 collected there and comparing it with the collections in the Museo 

 Nacional at Mexico City. It was through Dr. Drucker's intercession 

 that the U. S. National Museum received a collection of 187 polished 

 jadeite and other stone objects from La Venta as a loan from the 

 Museo Nacional of Mexico. Upon his return to Washington in Sep- 

 tember he completed the writing of his share of the final report on the 

 La Venta excavations, and also completed and submitted for publica- 

 tion his manuscript on the Native Brotherhood Societies of Alaska 

 and British Columbia. On December 9, 1955, Dr. Drucker resigned 

 from the Bureau. 



RIVER BASIN SURVEYS 

 (Prepared by Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Director, from data submitted by staff members) 



Throughout the year River Basin Surveys continued its program 

 for salvage archeology in areas to be flooded or otherwise destroyed 

 by the construction of large dams. As in previous years, the work 

 was carried on in cooperation with the National Park Service and 

 the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior, the 

 Corps of Engineers of the Department of the Army, and a number of 



