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hole Reservoir area in Crook County, Wyo. Returning to Lincoln, 

 Wheeler spent the autumn and winter months analyzing field data 

 and preparing a number of reports. He published a paper, "A Note 

 on the 'McKean Lanceolate Point' " in the Plains Archeological Con- 

 ference News Letter, volume 4, No. 4, based on materials from sites 

 in the Keyhole Reservoir area. He presented a report on the Keyhole 

 investigations before the Ninth Conference for Plains Archeology in 

 April. Before starting for the field in June he completed two manu- 

 scripts : "Excavations and Survey in the Boysen Reservoir Area, Cen- 

 tral Wyoming" and "Plains Ceramic Analysis : A check-list of Fea- 

 tures and Descriptive Terms." From the middle of June until the 

 end of the year Mr. Wheeler was in charge of a survey and excavation 



v party at the Jamestown Reservoir in North Dakota. 



Dr. Theodore E. White, geologist, spent the period from July 1 



y to 8 exploring the Oligocene and Miocene deposits in the Canyon 

 Ferry Reservoir area in Montana. From July 10 to 21 he was at the 

 Tiber Reservoir in the same State studying the Colorado group of the 

 Upper Cretaceous. From July 22 to August 13 he examined the ex- 

 posures of the Paleocene Fort Union formation on the south side of 

 the Missouri River in the Garrison Reservoir in North Dakota. The 

 period from August 15 to September 8 was spent exploring the sedi- 

 ments of the Montana group of the Upper Cretaceous near the dam in 

 the Oahe Reservoir area. He then moved on to the Fort Randall 

 Reservoir and spent September 8 to 16 in the area near the dam. That 

 completed Dr. White's field investigations for the 1951 season. His 

 activities during the winter months have already been discussed in con- 

 nection with the section on the Washington office. From May 15 to 21, 

 1952, he made a preliminary survey of the Tuttle Creek and Lovewell 

 Reservoirs in the Kansas River drainage, the Narrows, Trenton and 

 Ashton Reservoirs in the Platte drainage, and Gavins Point on the 

 Missouri River. From June 2 to 25 Dr. White examined the Cre- 

 taceous sediments in the Keyhole Reservoir and then moved on to the 

 Canyon Ferry Reservoir for further explorations in that area. 



Oklahoma.— -No field work was done in Oklahoma during the last 

 fiscal year. The technical report on the excavations of the previous 

 year at the Tenkiller Ferry Reservoir on the Illinois River, 15 miles 

 south of Tahlequah, was completed by Donald J. Lehmer. The report, 

 "The Turkey Bluff Focus of the Fulton Aspect," was published in 

 American Antiquity, volume 17, No. 4, April 1952. No further work 

 will be done in Oklahoma by the River Basin Surveys of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution since it falls within one of the areas where the 

 investigations will be under the direction and supervision of the 

 National Park Service after July 1, 1952. 



Texas. — The River Basin Surveys in Texas continued to operate 

 from the headquarters at Austin. The office, which was closed tempo- 



