SECRETARY’S REPORT 71 
During February Richard P. Wheeler conferred with the District 
Engineer at Chicago about the flood-control program for the Illinois 
River Basin, discussed archeological problems involved with Dr. John 
C. McGregor, associate professor of anthropology at the University of 
Illinois, and with Dr. Kenneth G. Orr, assistant professor of anthro- 
pology at the University of Chicago. March 10 to 18, Wheeler 
checked the survey files of the Department of Anthropology and 
worked in the Harper Library, at the University of Chicago. Leaving 
Chicago he proceeded to Springfield, Ill., where he conferred with 
Dr. Thorne Deuel, Director of the Illinois State Museum. From 
March 21 to 25 he made a reconnaissance of the Fondulac and Farm- 
dale Reservoir basins, the dams then being built, on Farm Creek, in 
Tazewell County, Ill. No archeological sites were found in those 
areas, and no further work was recommended. 
In April Wheeler prepared a preliminary report, ‘Archeological 
Resources of the Proposed or Considered Reservoirs in the Illinois 
River Basin, Central and Northern Illinois,’”’ which embodied a 
synopsis of present knowledge of the archeology of this region and 
provided a list of known sites (based on the site list prepared for the 
River Basin Surveys in September 1947 by Dr. J. C. McGregor) in 
10 of the 15 proposed reservoirs in the Illinois River Basin for which 
maps are available. 
On May 16 Wheeler was transferred to the Missouri Basin, and his 
activities from then until the end of the year are included in that 
portion of the report. 
Iowa.—Work in Iowa was confined for the most part to surveys of 
two reservoir basins and the area immediately adjacent to the dam 
site of a third where preliminary construction activities were already 
under way. 
Richard P. Wheeler spent the period December 6 to 10 at the Red 
Rock Reservoir project, on the Des Moines River, and December 13 
to 15 at the Rathbun Reservoir on the Chariton River. During the 
progress of the work he consulted with Dr. Charles R. Keyes, Director 
of the Archeological Survey of Iowa, about the character and extent 
of the archeological remains in the two areas. In his reports prepared 
at the conclusion of his field investigations, Wheeler records 15 mound 
and occupation sites in the Red Rock basin, 4 of which will be involved 
in the dam construction, and 6 in the Rathbun area. More intensive 
studies under more favorable field conditions were recommended for 
both reservoirs. 
Between January 24 and February 3, Wheeler made a preliminary 
reconnaissance of the Coralville Reservoir, on the Iowa River, in 
Johnson and Jowa Counties, Iowa. Eight mound sites and one 
occupation site were located. Ten other sites, recorded prior to the 
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