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Several students were employed as members of the various field 

 parties for the Surveys beginning in June 1947. Robert L. Hall and 

 Warren L. Wittry left Lincoln on June 2 with the Coopei- party for 

 the Fort Kandall Eeservoir in South Dakota, and at the end of the 

 fiscal year were occupied in the survey of that area. John L. Essex, 

 Gordon F. JMcKenzie, and Leo L. Stewart left Lincoln on June 9 as 

 members of the Kivett party to make a reconnaissance of the GaiTison 

 Reservoir area in North Dakota. Mr. Essex had previously assisted 

 Mr. Kivett in the work at the Harlan County Reservoir, Nebr., in 

 November 1946. H. G. Pierce joined the Bliss party and left Lincoln 

 on June 10 to assist in the survey at the Glendo Reservoir in Wyoming. 

 He was still with the party at the end of the fiscal year. John C. 

 Donohoe was employed on June 27 to assist the paleontologist, Dr. 

 Theodore E. White. 



Georgia. — Intensive survey of the Allatoona Reservoir area on the 

 Etowah River in Georgia was carried on during the period Novem- 

 ber 12, 1946, to April 1, 1947. This survey was made by Joseph R. 

 Caldwell, of the Division of Archeology, United States National Mu- 

 seum, who was detailed to the River Basin Surveys for that purpose. 

 Caldwell located 20G archeological sites representing a record of thou- 

 sands of years of diverse human cultures. Liformation obtained from 

 this survey has added materially to the aboriginal history of that part 

 of Georgia. Full knowledge, however, cannot be gained without ex- 

 cavation of some of the sites and the testing of others. In view of 

 this the preliminary report, prepared by Mr. Caldwell and distributed 

 to the National Park Service and the Corps of Engineers, recom- 

 mends the excavation of 10 sites and the testing of 33 others. A re- 

 quest for further funds for this purpose has been made by the National 

 Park Service to the Corps of Engineers, but at the end of the fiscal 

 year no response had been received to the request. The specimens col- 

 lected from the sites examined during the course of this survey were 

 transferred to the National Museum on April 17, 1947. 



Yirginia-N ortli Carolina. — The archeological reconnaissance of the 

 Buggs Island project on the Roanoke River was carried on during the 

 period of February 14 to May 1, 1947. This work was under the super- 

 vision of Carl F. Miller of the River Basin Surveys staff. During the 

 course of the investigations, 94 archeological sites were located, 2 of 

 which are extremely important as they appear to represent an eastern 

 phase of the so-called Folsom culture which flourished in the western 

 plains during the closing days of the last Ice Age. Other sites are pre- 

 Colonial and some date from the early Colonial period. The latter 

 are significant as they contain material characteristic of the late seven- 

 teenth-century contact with European culture and their investigation 

 would throw considerable light on this little-known era. Excavation 

 of 14 sites including the 2 eastern Folsom examples and the testing of 



