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County, Alabama." He completed the analysis of specimen materials 

 and prepared fmal drafts of two manuscripts reporting sites he had 

 excavated in the 1958 and 1959 seasons: "The Good Soldier Creek 

 Site (39LM238), Lyman County, South Dakota" and "Two Sites in 

 the Fort Thompson Area, Big Bend Reservoir, South Dakota." The 

 former deals with a stratified site of Plains Woodland occupation 

 overlain by a Mississippian component. The latter reports the in- 

 vestigations at a burial mound site of Plains Woodland context and 

 at a multicomponent village site. In November he attended the 17th 

 Plains Conference for Archeology in Lincoln, and in April he pre- 

 sented a paper, "Burial Patterns in Mounds of the Big Bend Area, 

 Central South Dakota," at the Seventieth Annual IMeeting of the 

 Nebraska Academy of Sciences in Lincoln. This paper was published 

 in abstract in the Proceedings of the Academy. In March he was 

 elected to full membership in the Society of the Sigma Xi and was 

 initiated in May. At the end of the year he was again in the field in 

 charge of a crew excavating burial mounds in the Oahe Reservoir area. 

 G. Hubert Smith, archeologist, was on duty at the Lincoln ofRce most 

 of the year. In July he participated in the 16i/2th Plains Conference 

 in Pierre, and in November he attended the 17th Plains Conference 

 for Archeology in Lincoln, serving as a discussant in a panel forum 

 on "Plains Ethnohistory." He visited the State Historical Society of 

 North Dakota in Bismarck during the period November 9-14 for the 

 purpose of examining and borrowing field notes and specimens per- 

 taining to the large technical manuscript he is preparing on the com- 

 bined researches at the site of Fort Berthold and I^ike-a-Fishhook 

 Village (32ML2). The work on this report on four seasons of in- 

 vestigation by three separate State and Federal agencies at this site 

 occupied Mr. Smith the major part of the year. It was about two- 

 thirds completed by June 30, 1960. On April 2, he was lent to the 

 National Park Service at Colonial National Historical Park, York- 

 town, Va., where he conducted excavations at the site of an early ISth- 

 century dwelling and completed a comprehensive technical report of 

 the results. In April he contributed a paper, in absentia, on "His- 

 torical Archeology in Missouri Basin Reservoir Areas; Current In- 

 vestigations" for the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences. It was published in abstract in the Proceedings 

 of the Academy and was accepted for publication m its entirety in the 

 Plains Anthropologist. As previously mentioned, he collaborated 

 with Caldwell and McNutt in the preparation of a popular booklet 

 on "Fort Randall Resei-voir." He wrote a review of "The Indian 

 Journals of Lewis Henry Morgan — 1859-1862," edited by Leslie A. 

 White, which was accepted for publication in NehrasJca TIktory. In 

 March he was elected to full membei-ship in the Society of the Sigma 

 Xi, and initiated, in absentia, in May. He returned to his duties in 



