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tion, the Corps of Engineers, the Geological Survey, and numerous 

 State and local institutions. The party leaders were assisted in many 

 ways by the field persomiel of all the cooperating agencies, and the 

 relationship was excellent in all areas. The National Park Service 

 contmued to serve as liaison between the various agencies, both in 

 Washington and in the field. The Park Service also prepared the 

 budget estimates and justifications for the fimds needed to support the 

 salvage program. 



General direction and supervision of the program were continued 

 by the mam office in Washington. Work in the Missouri Basin was 

 directed by the field headquarters and laboratory at Lincoln, Nebr. 

 The projects in southern Virginia and Georgia were supervised by 

 the Washington office. 



Washington Oflce. — Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., continued the 

 direction of the main headquarters of the River Basin Surveys in 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology throughout the year. Harold A. 

 Huscher and Carl F. Miller, archeologists, were based at that office. 

 Mr. Huscher had just returned from the Walter F. George Dam and 

 Lock area on the Chattahoochee River below Columbus, Ga., at the 

 begiiming of the fiscal year. He remained in the office during the 

 summer and fall months, working on the accumulating records and 

 collections from the 4 preceding years. Jn November he attended 

 the Southeastern Archeological Conference and the Conference on 

 Historic Site Archeology at Moimd State Park, Moundville, Ala., 

 reading a report on the "Archaic of the Walter F. George Reservoir 

 Area." On November 10 and 11, he attended the Eastern States 

 Archeological Conference at Athens, Ga., reading a paper on "Generic 

 Western Names Identifiable in the Southeast." On November 22-24, 

 he participated m the 20th Annual Plains Conference at Lincoln, 

 Nebr., where he discussed "Southern Athapaskan Names in Early 

 Spanish Records." Early in February he returned to Georgia and 

 completed emergency excavations at a site just south of the City of 

 Columbus. In May he attended the joint meeting of the Society for 

 American Archeology and the American Association of Physical 

 Anthropologists at Boulder, Colo., reading a paper on "Intermontane 

 Athapaskan Continuities." At the close of the fiscal year he was work- 

 ing on liis materials from the Walter F. George Reservoir area. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. Miller was in charge of an 

 excavating party at the Tuttle Creek Reservoir area in northern 

 Kansas. The results of his activities there are covered in the follow- 

 ing section on the Missouri Basin. On September 10 he left for 

 the Smith Mountain and Leesville Reservoir area in southern Vir- 

 ginia and carried on excavations there until November 18, when 

 weather conditions made it advisable to terminate digging until spring. 



