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Dardanelle Reservation in Arkansas. The materials collected by the 
excavating parties in the Missouri River Basin, as well as the one in 
Arkansas and those from the Toronto Reservoir area on the Verdigris 
River in Kansas, which were obtained the previous year, were proc- 
essed at the Lincoln laboratory. During the first two months of the 
fiscal year, Dr. James H. Howard, who supervised the project at the 
Kansas Reservoir, worked in the Lincoln office studying the speci- 
mens which he had recovered and preparing his report. 
Washington office—The main headquarters of the River Basin 
Surveys at the Bureau of American Ethnology continued under the 
direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. Carl F. Miller, archeolo- 
gist, was detailed to the regular Bureau staff for the period from 
July 1 to December 29, in order to continue excavations at Russell 
Cave, Alabama, and to work up the material obtained from the cave. 
On December 30 he returned to the River Basin Surveys staff and 
from then until April 22 devoted his time to the completion of his 
report on previous excavations at the James H. Kerr (Buggs Island) 
Reservoir on the Roanoke River in southern Virginia. During the 
winter months he spoke before several local societies, completed an 
article on the Russell Cave work for the National Geographic Maga- 
zine and gave a lecture on the cave before the National Geographic 
Society in Washington. On April 22 he proceeded to South Carolina 
where he conducted excavations in the Hartwell Reservoir area. 
While engaged in those investigations he spoke before several local 
Rotary and Lions Clubs, several groups of Boy Scouts, and a Naval 
Research group at Clemson College. On May 23 he participated in 
a conference held at the University of Georgia at Athens, at which 
time representatives of the National Park Service, the University of 
Georgia, and the River Basin Surveys discussed future work for the 
Hartwell Reservoir area. Mr. Miller returned to Washington on 
June 26 and on June 29 was again transferred to the Bureau of 
American Ethnology to resume the activities at Russell Cave. The 
latter work, which is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian 
Institution and the National Geographic Society, was to continue 
through the early months of the following fiscal year. 
William M. Bass III, temporary physical anthropologist, was on 
duty in Washington at the beginning of the year. He devoted the 
month of July and the first week in August to a study of human 
skeletal material from various sites in the Missouri Basin and pre- 
pared reports on his findings. On August 9 he left Washington for 
Pierre, S. Dak., and spent the ensuing 3 weeks assisting in the removal 
of Indian burials at the Sully site in the Oahe Reservoir area. Mr. 
Bass returned to Washington August 29 and resigned from the Sur- 
veys in order to resume his studies toward an advanced degree. On 
