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the proposed Edgemont Reservoir on the Cheyenne River. From 

 there they went to Fort ColHns, Colo., where the Horsetooth Reser- 

 voir is under construction, and examined paleontological and archeo- 

 logical specimens uncovered in the process of the work. Returning 

 to Washington early in November, Dr. Roberts went to Richmond, 

 Va., and gave the principal address before the annual meeting of the 

 Eastern States Archeological Federation. The subject of his talk 

 was the progress and results of the River Basin program. 



Late in November and early in December Dr. Roberts was again in 

 Lincoln, Nebr., where he assisted in making plans for reorganizing 

 the laboratory and field headquarters. While there he took part in 

 the Seventh Conference for Plains Ai'cheology and presided over one 

 of the symposia dealing with the problems of Plains archeology. 



In February and March Dr. Roberts visited the Departments of 

 Anthi-opology at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City; the Univer- 

 sity of Washington, Seattle; the University of Oregon, Eugene; and 

 the University of California, Berkeley. He discussed the plans for 

 field work during the coming season and made arrangements for 

 student help and field assistants for the River Basin Surveys parties. 

 While at Eugene he also inspected the field headquarters and labora- 

 tory for the Columbia Basin project and assisted Joel L. Shiner, the 

 acting field director, in making plans for the summer season. En route 

 back to Washington, Dr. Roberts visited the Department of Anthro- 

 pology at the University of Denver, where he talked with Arnold M. 

 Withers about the cooperation of that institution in the program in 

 Colorado. From there he proceeded to Lincoln to plan for the sum- 

 mer's work in that area. At that time he also spoke on the River 

 Basin program before the annual meeting of the Nebraska State 

 Press Association at Omaha. 



In May Dr. Roberts visited the Fort Gibson Reservoir in Oldahoma 

 and discussed plans for additional projects with the District Engineer 

 at Tulsa. At Norman, Okla., he examined materials which had been 

 salvaged from sites at the Fort Gibson Reservoir by a field party from 

 the University of Oklahoma and also attended sessions of the annual 

 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From Oklahoma 

 Dr. Roberts went to Texas, visiting the Garza-Little Elm, Lavon, 

 and Bel ton Reservoir projects. He also spent several days at the 

 Whitney Reservoir where one of the River Basin Surveys parties 

 under Robert L. Stephenson was excavating a series of Indian sites. 

 From the Whitney Reservoir he went to Austin to inspect the field 

 headquarters and laboratory located at the University of Texas. 



During the period July 1 through October 24, 1949, Dr. John P. 

 Harrington continued the study of the grammar of the Abnaki lan- 

 guage at Old Town, Maine. The Abnaki language is the only one of 



