526 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



National Park Service. The money for the Smithsonian Institution's 

 activities has been transferred each year by the National Park 

 Service. 



The amounts appropriated for the salvage program were increased 

 each year until 1951. There was a progressive reduction in 1952 

 and 1953 with a sharp curtailment for 1954 and 1955. As a result 

 of the decrease during the two latter years, the program was impeded 

 to such an extent that it was not possible to carry on even a bare min- 

 imum of what the situation required. There was some increase for 

 1956 but the addition was still inadequate. A grant from tlie Idaho 

 Power Company for work along the Snake River helped the program 

 considerably. In 1957 the situation was much improved and con- 

 tinued so through 1958. For the Missouri Basin there was a sharp 

 drop again in 1959 and 1960 but projects in other areas fared better. 

 This affected the Smithsonian River Basin Surveys more than co- 

 operating institutions, however. Specific appropriations for investi- 

 gations at the Glen Canyon and Navajo projects in the Upper Colo- 

 rado Basin and for work in several Georgia reservoir areas went to 

 cooperating institutions. The peak years in the program were 1951, 

 1952, 1957, and 1958. In 1951 and 1952 there were 17 parties from 

 the River Basin Surveys operating in all parts of the country, while 

 21 parties from cooperating institutions were busily engaged in field 

 research. In 1955 the comparable figures were 4 for the River Basin 

 Surveys and 7 for cooperating agencies. During 1956 there were 8 

 River Basin Surveys parties and 4 cooperating ones. The River 

 Basin Surveys had 21 field parties in 1957 and the cooperating insti- 

 tutions 22. The Smithsonian sent out 17 parties in 1958 and there 

 were 37 cooperating projects. The year 1959 saw 8 River Basin 

 Surveys parties at work, while the cooperating institutions had 40. 

 In 1960 the figures to July 1 were Smithsonian 8 and cooperators 41. 



During the first 3 years of the program many State and local 

 institutions, colleges, museums, and historical societies assumed re- 

 sponsibility for specific imits of various projects in their own region. 

 The entire cost of such assistance was borne by the cooperating in- 

 stitutions. Subsequently, however, there was a change in policy and 

 a number of local institutions signed memoranda of agreement with 

 the National Park Sei'vice whereby they Mere furnished funds to 

 supplement their own in the excavation of sites chosen in accordance 

 with recommendations by the Smithsonian Institution. Such agree- 

 ments proved beneficial and enabled the cooperating groups to ac- 

 complish much more than would otherwise have been possible. There 

 have been 38 cooperating organizations in all and they have accounted 

 for 18 percent of the work accomplished. In addition, the National 

 Park Service in ,recent years has written a number of personal service 

 contracts for specific investigations of a limited nature. 



