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the Visiting Scientist Program of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 

 and lectured to student groups at Sutton and Sidney, Nebr. 



Dr. Stephenson attended the 191/^ Plains Conference in Pierre, 

 S. Dak., in July and served as a panel member in a symposium on "The 

 Salvage Program So Far." At the 20th Plains Conference in Lincoln 

 on Thanksgiving weekend he served as local arrangements chairman 

 and as chairman of a symposium on "Plains Chronology." During 

 the period of December 12-21 he attended the "Management Develop- 

 ment Program for Field Managers" of the U.S. Department of Agri- 

 culture Graduate School, held on the Voorhis Campus of California 

 State Polyteclmic College in San Dimas, Calif. He attended the 73d 

 annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in Lincoln on 

 April 27 and the annual meeting of the Society for American Arche- 

 ology in Boulder, Colo., on IMay 1-3. "Wliile at Boulder he participated 

 in the meeting of the Committee for the Recovery of Archeological 

 Eemains and reported on the year's activities of the Missouri Basin 

 Project and on the prospects for the coming year. He wrote several 

 book reviews for scientific journals, gave talks to various local civic 

 organizations on the work of the River Basin Surveys, and represented 

 the Smithsonian Institution at special occasions at the invitation of 

 local civic organizations. He served throughout the second half of 

 the year on the organizing committee for the INQUA meetings to be 

 held in Boulder, Colo., in September 1965, and was named as one of 

 the field conference organizers for a preconference field trip through 

 the Plains area. 



Lionel A. Brown, archeologist, when not in charge of field parties, 

 devoted most of his time to analyzing specimen materials he had 

 recovered during the past year and to materials recovered by others 

 in the Missouri Basin in previous years. He completed a major 

 draft of a manuscript entitled "Archeology of the Lower Yellowtail 

 Reservoir, Montana," which describes the work and material recovered 

 from the several sites that he excavated and tested in that area during 

 the summer of 1963. He completed a major draft of a preliminary 

 manuscript entitled "Archeological Investigations in the Pony Creek 

 Watershed, Iowa," which describes the work and reports the analyses 

 of materials he recovered from that area of southwestern Iowa in 

 the spring of 1962. This manuscript vnll be combined with the report 

 of the work currently being done in that area to form an overall pub- 

 lication on the Pony Creek researches. In the early spring he studied 

 the specimens and field records from the Gillette site (39ST23) in 

 the Oahe Reservoir, excavated by Donald D. Hartle of the I^Iissouri 

 Basin Project in 1957, and nearly completed the major draft of a 

 manuscript covering those investigations. 



