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Thule as previously assumed. Also in preparation was an article 
evaluating recent archeological discoveries in Alaska and northeast 
Siberia and their bearing on pre-Eskimo and Eskimo culture se- 
quences and relationships in the Bering Strait area. 
In December Dr. Collins attended a 2-day conference on polar re- 
search held at Hanover, N.H., under the auspices of Dartmouth Col- 
lege and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Polar Re- 
search. The conference discussed the probable future course of polar 
research in this country and the advisability of establishing a research 
institute to coordinate and administer scientific research in the Arc- 
tic and Antarctic. 
In June Dr. Collins went to Burke County, Ga., to examine an old 
Indian village site near Waynesboro where Dr. Roland Steiner in the 
1890’s had collected an unusually large number of flint implements, 
now in the U.S. National Museum. The implements, numbering some 
16,000, were of particular interest because most of them were deeply 
patinated and were types which are now recognized as belonging to the 
Archaic period ; one of the types, an unusual form of asymmetric knife 
or scraper, was identical with a specialized form characteristic of 
the prehistoric Dorset culture of the eastern Canadian Arctic. 
Through the cooperation of Raymond De Laigle, clerk of court of 
Burke County, and his brothers, Ray and Roy De Laigle, it was pos- 
sible to locate the site from county records. It was found to be very 
much as described by Steiner 70 years ago and still prolific in stone 
artifacts and rejectage. A sizable collection of flint implements and 
flakes from this and other sites around Waynesboro was brought 
back for study. 
Dr. Collins continued to serve as a member of the research commit- 
tee of the Arctic Institute of North America, which evaluates appli- 
cations for research grants, and of the publications committee, which 
exercises supervision of the Arctic Institute’s quarterly journal Arctic, 
its Technical Papers, and its series of Special Publications. As chair- 
man of the directing committee, Dr. Collins also devoted considerable 
time to the planning, supervision, and financing of the Arctic Bibli- 
ography, which is prepared by the Arctic Institute for and with the 
support of the Department of Defense. This comprehensive ref- 
erence work abstracts and indexes the contents of publications in all 
languages and in all fields of science relating to the Arctic and sub- 
arctic regions of the world. Volume 8, containing abstracts of 5,623 
publications in 1,281 pages, was scheduled for publication by the 
Government Printing Office early in July 1959, and work on volume 
9 is underway. Subject fields receiving special emphasis in volume 
8 include body systems, human and other; botany; construction; 
disease ; ecology ; economic and social conditions; environmental effects 
