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excavations being carried on by a River Basin Surveys party in the 
Dardanelle Reservoir area. En route back to Lincoln a stop was 
made at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and a number 
of collections of archeological material in the museum there were ex- 
amined. After spending several additional days at Lincoln studying 
the operations of the office and laboratory, Dr. Roberts returned to 
Washington and was in the office at the close of the year. During the 
fall and winter months Dr. Roberts reviewed and suggested changes 
in the manuscripts of several detailed, technical reports on the results 
of excavations at sites in the Missouri Basin and other areas. 
Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthropologist, continued his Eskimo studies 
and other Arctic activities. He prepared an article on Eskimo art 
for the Enciclopedia Universale Deli’Arte, a 14-volume work to be 
published in Italian and English by the Istituto per la Collabora- 
zione Culturale, Rome. His paper “Present Status of the Dorset 
Problem,” which he presented at the 32d International Congress of 
Americanists in Copenhagen, was published in the Proceedings of the 
Congress. 
In May Dr. Collins participated in an international conference on 
Arctic anthropology held at the Danish National Museum in Copen- 
hagen. Also attending were five anthropologists from the United 
States, one from Canada, four each from Denmark and the 
U.S.S.R., and two each from Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The 
purpose of the meeting was to discuss plans for closer international 
cooperation in Arctic anthropology. Following the conference Dr. 
Collins visited a large Mesolithic site, Kongemosen, representing the 
formative stage of the Ertebélle culture, and two other Mesolithic 
sites at Eriksholm and Langtved, near Holbaek. 
Dr. Collins continued to serve on the publications and research 
committees of the Arctic Institute of North America, as well as on 
the committee which plans the research program of the Arctic Re- 
search Laboratory at Point Barrow, operated by the Office of Naval 
Research. He also continued as chairman of the Directing Commit- 
tee which plans and supervises the work of the Arctic Bibliography, 
a comprehensive annotated and indexed bibliography of publications 
in all fields of science relating to the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions 
of America and Eurasia. The work is being prepared by the Arctic 
Institute of North America for the Department of Defense. Volume 
8 of the Bibliography, which abstracts and indexes the contents of 
5,623 publications in English, Russian, German, and the Scandinavian 
and 17 other languages, was delivered to the Government Printing 
Office in June. This makes a total of 49,087 publications that have 
been abstracted thus far in Arctic Bibliography. 
