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Cooperating institutions. — The Kiver Basin Surveys have been for- 

 tunate in receiving wholehearted cooperation from local institutions 

 in many portions of the country. Not only has space for field offices 

 and laboratories been provided together with the assistance and advice 

 of members of the various staffs, as at the University of Nebraska, the 

 University of Texas, the University of California, and the University 

 of Oregon, but in a number of cases units in the survey program have 

 been taken over and are being worked by universities and local organ- 

 izations. This active cooperation has relieved the River Basin Sur- 

 veys of a considerable burden and has made for more rapid progress 

 throughout the country as a whole. 



In Peimsylvania the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Com- 

 mission helped with the program. The University of Kentucky as- 

 sumed responsibility for investigations at the Wolf Creek and Dewey 

 Eeservoir projects in that State. The Alabama Museum of Natural 

 History conducted surveys along the lower Chattahoochee River Basin 

 in Alabama in areas wdiich will be inundated. The Ohio State Mu- 

 seum at Columbus investigated Corps of Engineers projects in that 

 State. The University of Missouri, in cooperation with the Missouri 

 Resources Museum and the Missouri Archeological Society, started 

 surveys and excavations in that portion of the Bull Shoals Reservoir, 

 on the White River, which lies in Missouri and at several Corps of 

 Engineers projects on the Osage River. The Department of An- 

 thropology of the University of Chicago and the Illinois State Mu- 

 seum at Springfield agreed to cooperate in a survey of the Illinois 

 River Basin where 17 Corps of Engineers projects are proposed. The 

 University of Oklahoma examined and reported on two reservoirs, 

 one of which, the Wister, will inundate extensive and important 

 archeological material. The University of Nebraska cooperated both 

 in the search for and the excavation of paleontological material and 

 in archeological reconnaissance. The Nebraska State Historical So- 

 ciety assisted in the survey work and also did some digging in sites 

 which will be destroyed by construction work. The South Dakota 

 Historical Society did some survey work and also some excavation. 

 The University of North Dakota and the North Dakota Historical 

 Society cooperated in making a survey at the Heart Butte Reservoir 

 and in testing a number of sites in that area. The University of Colo- 

 rado assumed responsibility for a survey of eight reservoir basins in 

 the Colorado-Big Thompson project and for more intensive investi- 

 gation at the Wray Reservoir in eastern Colorado. The University 

 of Denver planned surveys of a number of reservoirs in the Blue 

 River-South Platte project and of two in the Arkansas River Basin 

 south of Pueblo. Western State College took over the examination 

 of a group of reservoirs along the Gunnison River in western Colorado. 



