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V. Hayden." He attended the 17th annual meeting of the Mississippi 

 Valley Historical Association and took part in the historic sites com- 

 mittee meeting of that group. He addressed the Kansas City Ar- 

 cheological Society on "Historical Archeology in the Missouri Basin" 

 on May 7, and on May 19 he gave an illustrated talk on "Historic 

 Buildings of Nebraska" at the Nebraska State Historical Society in 

 Lincoln. At the end of the year he was again in the field conducting 

 investigations of historic sites in the Big Bend Reservoir. 



Table 1. — Specimens processed, July 1, 1962-June 30,1963 



As of June 30, 1963, the Missouri Basin Project had cataloged 

 1,391,219 specimens from 2,410 numbered sites and 60 collections not 

 assigned site numbers. 



Specimens restored : Five pottery vessels and six vessel sections. 



Specimens donated to the Missouri Basin Project for comparative use: 

 By the W, H. Over Museum, University of South Dakota, courtesy of Dr. Wesley 

 R. Hurt— 75 pot rim sherds collected from 39GR1 (Scalp Creek site), 39WW7 

 (Swan Creek site), and 39WW303. These sherds respresent eight pottery wares, 

 namely: Akaska, Le Beau, Randall, Rygh, Scalp, Steamboat, Swan Creek, and 

 Talking Grow. 



Table 2. — Record material processed, July 1, 1962-June SO, 196S 



MISSOURI BASIN PROJECT 



Reflex copies of records 8,967 



Photographic negatives made 3, 128 



Photographic prints made 13, 712 



Photographic prints mounted and filed 7, 660 



Transparencies mounted in glass 66 



Kodachrome pictures taken in lab 72 



Cartographic tracings and drawings 38 



Illustrations 27 



Lettering of plates 12 



Profiles drawn 92 



Plate layouts made for manuscripts 18 



