62 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1953 



several days were spent in examining and studying collections coming 

 in from the various field parties. At that time Dr. Roberts assisted 

 Mr. Brown in preparing plans for the termination of the various field 

 parties and for the fall and winter work at the laboratory in Lincoln. 



Dr. Roberts returned to the field oflSce at Lincoln in September 

 following the accidental death of Mr. Brown, and for a period of 2 

 weeks took charge of the operations there, supervising the termination 

 of the field projects and the return of personnel and equipment to 

 the field headquarters. At that time he also reviewed and edited a 

 number of preliminary reports on reconnaissance surveys, and ap- 

 proved them for mimeographing and distribution. 



In December Dr. Roberts went to St. Louis to attend the annual 

 meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 and gave the retiring address as chairman of Section H, speaking on 

 the subject "Progress in the Inter- Agency Archeological and Anthro- 

 pological Salvage Program in the United States." In May he at- 

 tended the meetings of the Society for American Archeology at 

 Urbana, 111., taking part in a number of discussions pertaining to the 

 work in the Plains area. Later in the month he went to Lincoln, 

 Nebr., to take part in a meeting of the Missouri Basin Inter- Agency 

 Field Committee. In January he completed a manuscript, "Earliest 

 Men in America, Their Arrival and Spread in Late Pleistocene and 

 Post Pleistocene Times," for the International Commission for a 

 Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind. During the year Dr. 

 Roberts received an alumni award from the University of Denver for 

 distinguished service in the field of American archeology. 



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

 and other Arctic activities. He continued to serve as a member of 

 the National Research Council's Committee on International Relations 

 in Anthropology and was appointed a member of the Permanent 

 Council of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethno- 

 logical Sciences, to participate in planning for the next session of the 

 Congress, to be held in Philadelphia in 1954. 



As a member of the Board of Governors of the Arctic Institute of 

 North America Dr. Collins attended several meetings of the Board 

 and of the executive committee held in Montreal, Ottawa, and Wash- 

 ington. As chairman of the directing committee of the Arctic Bib- 

 liography, he continued to supervise the operation of this project and 

 made arrangements with the Department of the Air Force for support 

 of the work during the present and coming fiscal years and for the 

 publication of the material assembled in 1952 and 1953. The Arctic 

 Bibliography is being prepared for the Department of Defense by the 

 Arctic Institute under contract with the Office of Naval Research. It 

 describes, and indexes by topic and region, the contents of 24,000 

 publications in all fields of science relating to the Arctic and sub- 



