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of the National Park Service to consider various problems pertaining 

 to salvage operations in the Missouri Basin. 



During late December and early January Dr. Roberts represented 

 the Bureau at the meetings of the American Anthropological Associ- 

 ation in Mexico City. He also visited various museums and archeo- 

 logical sites in the surrounding area. Late m January after his 

 return to Washington he participated in the meetings of the Commit- 

 tee for the Recovery of Archeological Remains held at the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior. He presented a summary of the results of the 

 activities of the River Basin Surveys during the preceding year and 

 joined in the discussions pertaining to future plans for the Inter- 

 Agency Archeological Salvage Program. 



In April Dr. Roberts went to Lincoln to inspect the operations of 

 the Missouri Basin project office and met with representatives of 

 Region Two of the National Park Service to consider the fiscal situ- 

 ation and fieldwork to be carried on during the 1960 summer season. 

 Dr. Roberts assisted in the preparation of budgets and plans for the 

 various River Basin Surveys parties which were to be leaving Lincoln 

 early in June. 



At the request of the National Park Service, Dr. Roberts was au- 

 thorized to serve as a member of an advisory group for the Wetherill 

 Mesa excavations at Mesa Verde National Park. He went to Mesa 

 Verde late in May and with other members of the gi-oup inspected 

 the work under way at two largo cliff ruins and in the project labo- 

 ratory. The group spent one day discussing various problems pertain- 

 ing to the project and made a number of recommendations with respect 

 to the continuance of the investigations. 



Dr. Roberts did the technical editing of a series of four reports on 

 archeological excavations in three reservoir areas. They will appear 

 as River Basin Surveys Papers Nos. 21-24 in Bulletin 179 of the 

 Bureau of American Etlinology. 



Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthropologist, continued his Eskimo studies 

 and other Arctic activities. He prepared an article on the native 

 peoples of the Arctic for a forthcoming edition of the Encyclo'paedia 

 Britannica^ and his paper on Eskimo art appeared in the first issue 

 of Dartmouth College's new journal devoted to Polar research. In 

 another paper, published in Current Anthropology, he discussed recent 

 archeological discoveries in Alaska and Siberia and assessed the roles 

 of local culture growth, diffusion, trade, population movements, tradi- 

 tion, and geographical patterning as causative factors involved in the 

 development and continuity of prehistoric Eskimo cultm-e in the 

 Bering Strait area. 



Dr. Collins was elected to the Board of Governors of the Arctic 

 Institute of North America for a 3-year term. He continued to serve 



