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Table 1. — Specimens processed July 1, 1956, through June SO, 1957 



Reservoir 



Number 



of 



sites 



Catalog 

 numbers 

 assigned 



Number of 



specimens 



processed 



Big Bend 



Coral ville 



Dardanelle 



Fort Randall 



Gavins Point 



Lovewell 



Oahe 



Toronto 



Sites not in reservoirs 



Collections not assigned site numbers 



114 



9 



51 



5 



3 



8 



20 



35 



5 



3,336 



878 



1, 191 



157 



10 



2,198 



9,303 



536 



81 



250 

 4 



17, 690 

 23 



17, 713 



24, 602 



3,088 



1,384 



2,004 



11 



5,689 



140, 630 



862 



679 



178, 949 

 57 



179, 006 



As of June 30, 1957, the Missouri Basin Project had cataloged 

 749,244 specimens from 1,725 numbered sites and 50 collections not 

 assigned site numbers. 



Additional specimen transfers were made, all to the United States 

 National Museum, as follows: Human skeletal remains from 3 sites 

 in the Oahe Reservoir area ; bird bone from 23 sites in 5 reservoirs ; 

 fish bone from 9 sites in 3 reservoirs ; and unworked shell from 2 sites 

 in 2 reservoirs. 



Table 2. — Record materials processed 



Reflex copies of records 11, 879 



Photographic negatives made 1, 984 



Photographic prints made 7, 945 



Photographic prints mounted and filed . 3, 990 



Plate layouts made for manuscripts 10 



Transparencies mounted in glass 959 



Cartographic tracings and revisions 70 



During October 25-27 the annual meetings of the Mountain-Plain 

 Historical Association were held in Lincoln and the Missouri Basin 

 Project staff served as one of the local host organizations. As a pro- 

 gramed part of the meetings the group was invited to tour the facili- 

 ties at the Project laboratory. During the Thanksgiving weekend 

 members of the staff participated in the 14th Plains Conference for 

 Archeology, held in Lincoln. On April 27 members of the staff par- 

 ticipated in the annual meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sci- 

 ences. May 2, as a programed part of the meetings of the Missouri 

 Basin Inter- Agency Committee being held in Lincoln, the group was 

 given a conducted tour of the Missouri Basin Project facilities. 



