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working in the Lovewell Reservoir area on White Rock Creek in 

 Kansas, and to parties working in the vicinity of Pierre, S. Dak. He 

 attended and participated in the sessions of the Fifth International 

 Congress for Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held at 

 Philadelphia, Pa., in September. During the fall and winter months 

 he reviewed and revised a number of manuscript reports on the results 

 of investigations in several areas. In November he visited the field 

 office and laboratory of the River Basin Surveys at Lincoln, Nebr., 

 and presided over one of the sessions of the 14th Conference for 

 Plains Archeology. At the end of April Dr. Roberts went to Lincoln 

 to assist in preparing plans for the coming field season and to take part 

 in a meeting of the Missouri Basin Inter- Agency Committee, which 

 convened there on May 1. From Lincoln he went to Madison, Wis., to 

 attend the annual meeting of the Society of American Archeology and 

 to discuss problems concerning the Inter- Agency Salvage Program 

 with archeologists present there. He returned to Lincoln later in 

 May to confer with members of the field staff on the program for sum- 

 mer fieldwork and attended sessions of the annual meeting of the 

 American Association of Museums being held there. Early in June 

 he visited a field party that was excavating sites in the Toronto 

 Reservoir area on the Verdigris River in southeastern Kansas. At 

 the close of the fiscal year Dr. Roberts was in the office in Washington. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthro- 

 pologist, was in Europe studying museum collections of Mesolithic 

 materials for their possible bearing on the Eskimo problem. The 

 study was supported by a grant from the American Philosophical 

 Society. The need for such a study arose from the fact that recent 

 excavations at early Eskimo and pre-Eskimo sites in Alaska, Canada, 

 and Greenland have revealed a number of implement types similar to 

 those of the Mesolithic and early Neolithic cultures of Eurasia, lending 

 weight to previous indications that Eskimo culture was basically of 

 Mesolithic origin. Prominent among the Arctic sites exhibiting Meso- 

 lithic affinities is the early Dorset culture site T 1, on Southampton 

 Island, Hudson Bay, where Dr. Collins excavated in 1954 and 1955. 



In London Dr. Collins examined the extensive collection of Meso- 

 lithic implements from Europe, Africa, India, and Ceylon in storage 

 at the British Museum (Great Russell Street) as well as the African 

 materials in the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensing- 

 ton. At Cambridge he discussed Mesolithic problems with Dr. J. G. D. 

 Clark and examined the collections, mainly from the early Mesolithic 

 site of Star Carr, in the University Museum. The Tardenoisian and 

 Azilian collections in the Musee de l'Homme, Paris, were made avail- 

 able through the courtesy of the Director, Dr. Henri V. Vallois. At 

 the Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, Dr. Hans-Georg Bandi 



