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Keservoir basin which is within the boundaries of the Fort Benning 

 Reservation. Various local clubs and groups of citizens, both in Ala- 

 bama and Georgia, the Georgia Historical Commission, and the Uni- 

 versity of Georgia assisted the leader of the River Basin Surveys 

 party while he was working along the Chattahoochee River. In the 

 Missouri Basin Project engineers and personnel from the Corps of 

 Engineers were very helpful in carrying out activities in that area. 

 Furthermore, the Corps of Engineers and the Missouri Basin Project 

 of the River Basin Surveys cooperated in the preparation of small 

 informative pamphlets telling about various reservoirs along the 

 Missouri River. The pamphlets were published by the Corps of Eng- 

 ineers and are being distributed to visitors at various reservoir 

 installations. 



General direction and supervision of the program were continued 

 by the main office in Washington. The field headquarters and labora- 

 tory at Lincoln, Nebr., was in direct charge of the work in the Mis- 

 souri Basin. The activities along the Chattahoochee River and in 

 southern Virginia were supervised by the Washington office. 



Washington office. — The main headquarters of the River Basin 

 Surveys in the Bureau of American Etlmology continued mider the 

 direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., throughout the year. Carl 

 F. Miller and Harold A. Huscher, archeologists, were based at that 

 office. Mr. Miller spent a major portion of the year in the Washing- 

 ton office working on materials and data he had collected during pre- 

 vious seasons in the field. He also corrected the final page proofs for 

 his report on the investigations made at the James H. Kerr Reservoir 

 on the Roanoke River in southern Virginia. He made a number of 

 talks before schools and civic organizations in the metropolitan area 

 of Washington and spoke before the Archeological Society of Dela- 

 ware at Wilmington. In October he attended the sessions of the East- 

 ern States Archeological Federation at Williamsburg, Va. He 

 identified numerous artifacts from the southeastern archeological area 

 for collectors who either sent them to the office or brought them in 

 person and furnished information for replies to letters inquiring about 

 archeological problems. On April 3 at Rocky Mount, Va., he began an 

 archeological reconnaissance of the Smith Mountain Project of the 

 Appalachian Power Co. He completed that assignment and returned 

 to Washington on May 11. He then prepared a report on the results 

 of his survey, recommending a series of excavations for the two reser- 

 voir areas included in the project. On June 11 he left Washington 

 for Lincoln, Nebr., to take charge of one of the Missouri Basin field 

 parties. His activities during the remainder of the fiscal year are 

 covered in the Missouri Basin portion of this report. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. Huscher was in the Washing- 



