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excavations at Medicine Creek and, after his return to the Lincoln 
headquarters on August 24, assisted in the cleaning and cataloging of 
the last consignment of specimens from the project. From September 
12 until October 20 he supervised and aided in the processing of some 
7,000 specimens recovered from Medicine Creek sites by the Nebraska 
State Historical Society. As a part of that task all suitable shell, 
bone, and vegetal material was listed and prepared for submission to 
specialists for identification. Throughout the winter and spring 
months he worked with Mr. Kivett in the analysis of the Medicine 
Creek materials and wrote sections on worked bone, shell, and pottery 
for inclusion in the final technical report. He also assisted in the 
selection of specimens and the arrangement of photographic plates 
for the final report. At the end of the fiscal year he was engaged in 
making an analysis of the house remains in the Medicine Creek area. 
J. M. Shippee, field and laboratory assistant, returned to Lincoln 
with the Hughes party on October 1 and from then until November 8 
supervised the dismantling of the laboratory and its reinstallation in 
new quarters. Mr. Shippee then accompanied Mr. Cooper to the 
Fort Randall Reservoir, where he assisted in the excavation of a burial 
mound located on the site of the dam spillway. He returned to 
Lincoln in late November and spent the remainder of the year in the 
restoration of pottery and other specimens and in the cleaning and 
mounting, for exhibition purposes, of a juvenile skeleton which had 
been removed intact from an ossuary at the Harlan County Reservoir. 
He prepared a paper, ‘‘SSome Problems of the Nebo Hill Complex,” 
which was read before the Anthropological Section of the Nebraska 
Academy of Sciences on May 7. At the close of the year he was 
preparing and assembling equipment for the various parties starting 
for the field. 
Richard P. Wheeler, archeologist, was transferred to the Missouri 
Basin in May and on May 27 left Lincoln to make a series of prelim- 
inary surveys at reservoir projects in South Dakota, North Dakota, 
Montana, and Wyoming. By the end of the year he had visited eight 
reservoir areas. On June 30 he was at Fort Washakie, Wyo., where 
he obtained permission from the Business Council of the Shoshones 
and Arapahos to make preliminary surveys of the proposed Soral 
Creek and Raft Lake reservoir basins, which are located in the Wind 
River Indian Reservation, immediately after the start of the new year. 
Dr. Theodore E. White, paleontologist, confined his activities, with 
one minor exception, to work on the Missouri Basin problems through- 
out the fiscal year. 
From July 1 to 12 the lower Eocene deposits in the Boysen Reservoir 
area on the Big Horn River north of Shoshoni, Fremont County, 
Wyo., were prospected for fossils. Five fossiliferous “‘pockets,’’ which 
