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Society excavated in the Council Grove Eeservoir on the Grand 

 (Neosho) Eiver. The University of Arizona continued its investiga- 

 tions in the Painted Rock area on the Gila River. The Museum of 

 Northern Arizona continued its studies in the Glen Canyon Reservoir 

 area on the Colorado River, as did the University of Utah in the same 

 area and in the Flaming Gorge and Plumfield Reservoir Basins. 

 The Museum of New Mexico worked in the Navajo Reservoir area 

 along the San Juan River. The College of the Sequoias conducted 

 investigations in the Terminus Reservoir area on the Kaweah River 

 in California. Idaho State College worked in the Bruce's Eddy area 

 on the North Fork of the Clearwater River. Washington State Col- 

 lege continued its excavations in the Lower Monumental and Ice 

 Harbor areas along the Columbia River and the University of Wash- 

 ington worked on the Priest Rapids- Wanapum Project in the Middle 

 Columbia River district. The University of Oregon investigated 

 sites in the John Day Reservoir Basin on the John Day River. Several 

 institutions volunteered to carry on survey work without an agreement 

 with the National Park Service. They include gi'oups in Pennsylvania, 

 New York State, Ohio, Indiana, southern California, and West 

 Virginia. In the latter State the West Virginia Geological Survey 

 did reconnaissance work in the Summerville Reservoir area on the 

 Gauley River. 



ARCHIVES 



The Bureau archives continued under the custody of Mrs. Margaret 

 C. Blaker, archivist. In May 1961 Mrs. Blaker visited the Haverford 

 College Library, Haverford, Pa., where she examined pictorial and 

 manuscript material in the Quaker Collection concerning American 

 Indians, and in June, visited the library of Hampton Institute, Hamp- 

 ton, Va., and examined an extensive collection of field and studio 

 photographs relating to Indians who were students at Hampton in 

 the period 1880-1900. On July 10, 1960, Mrs. Caroline R. Cohen 

 was appointed as junior anthropologist and was assigned to assist in 

 the archives. 



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS 



The papers of Dr. Frans M. Olbrechts, relating to his studies of the 

 Cherokee Indians of North Carolina in 1926-31 when he was a col- 

 laborator of the Bureau, were transmitted to the Bureau archives 

 by Dr. Olbrechts' widow, Mrs. Margriet Olbrechts of Wezembeek- 

 Oppem, Belgium, through Dr. A. E. Meeussen, Koninklijk Museum, 

 Tervuren, Belgium. Dr. Olbrechts died at Aix-la-Chapelle, March 

 24, 1958. The subject matter of the papers consists of the following 

 categories : Vocabularies, grammar, texts, disease-name papers, Wilnoti 

 formula papers, botany, myths, and miscellaneous ethnographic notes. 



