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quarters of the River Basin Surveys continued under the direction of 
Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. Carl F. Miller, Joseph R. Caldwell, 
and Ralph S. Solecki, archeologists, were based on that office, although 
Caldwell and Solecki did not work full time for the Surveys. 
Richard P. Wheeler was appointed archeologist on the staff on 
August 27, and from that date until May 16 functioned under the 
direction of the Washington office, although all his work was done in 
the field. On May 16 he was transferred to the Missouri Basin 
and from then until the close of the year was based on the Lincoln 
headquarters. 
Mr. Miller spent most of the year in the office preparing reports 
based upon material gathered in the field during the previous year, 
and assisting the Director in reviewing the literature pertaining to 
archeological manifestations occurring in areas where additional reser- 
voir projects are proposed. His ‘‘Appraisal of the Archeological 
Resources of the Clark Hill Reservoir Area, South Carolina and Geor- 
gia’? was completed and mimeographed for distribution in December. 
Another article, ‘‘Early Cultural Manifestations Exposed by the 
Archeological Survey of the Buggs Island Reservoir in Southern 
Virginia and Northern North Carolina,” was published in the Journal 
of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. 38, No. 2, December 
1948. A paper based on information obtained during the survey of 
the Clark Hill Reservoir, ‘The Lake Spring Site, Columbia County, 
Georgia,” was to appear in American Antiquity, vol. 15, No. 1, July 
1949. Several others have been accepted for publication elsewhere. 
Mr. Miller made two trips to Clarksville, Va., in the late winter and 
early spring, the first for the purpose of investigating unauthorized 
pot-hunting activities in the Buggs Island Reservoir area, and the 
second to speak before the Archeological Society of Virginia on the 
problems of the Buggs Island archeological program. He also went 
to Richmond, Va., where he spent 2 days at the Valentine Museum 
examining manuscripts and other documentary materials pertaining 
to early explorations and surveys in Virginia, northern North Carolina, 
and eastern West Virginia in an effort to obtain further data bearing 
on the aboriginal history of the Buggs Island area. 
In July and early August Mr. Caldwell collaborated with Mr. Miller 
in working over the materials collected during the Clark Hill Reservoir 
survey. During that period he prepared a paper, “The Rembert 
Mounds, Elbert County, Georgia,’”’ based on new information obtained 
at Clark Hill. Another article, ‘‘Palachacolas Town, Hampton 
County, South Carolina,” was printed in the Journal of the Washington 
Academy of Sciences, vol. 38, No. 10, October 15, 1948. On August 
19 Mr. Caldwell joined Dr. Robert E. Bell, of the University of Okla- 
homa, at Wagoner, Okla., and began the excavation of a large mound 
