SECRETARY'S REPORT 61 
Texas 1, and Washington 1. Preliminary appraisals with recommen- 
dations for further work, supplemented by some technical reports, 
have been completed for all the areas surveyed. Limited editions of 
61 have been mimeographed for distribution to the cooperating 
agencies. The others were in varying stages of being processed at the 
end of the year. These mimeographed pamphlets have not been 
made available to the general public because they are not complete 
archeological reports and are intended to be used only for reference 
purposes by the Surveys staff while the program is going forward. 
Reports for general distribution will be issued after the archeological 
and paleontological work in each unit has been completed. 
General direction and supervision of the work in Georgia, West 
Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado (outside 
of the Missouri Basin), and some of the California projects were from 
the main office in Washington. Direction of the program in the 
Missouri Basin was from a field headquarters and laboratory at 
Lincoln, Nebr., while the activities in the Columbia-Snake Basin were 
under the supervision of a field office located at Eugene, Oreg. 
The assistance and whole-hearted cooperation given to River Basin 
Surveys staff men in the field by representatives of the National Park 
Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Corps of Engineers con- 
tributed in no small degree to the success of much of the work. At 
some of the projects temporary office space and storage facilities were 
provided, at others transportation was furnished, and in a few cases 
labor was made available to help in emergency excavations where 
material had to be recovered immediately. The National Park Service 
not only obtained the funds necessary for carrying on the program 
as a whole, but also served as the liaison between the Smithsonian In- 
stitution and the other governmental agencies to the benefit of all 
concerned. 
Washington office ——The main office of the River Basin Surveys was 
under the direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., throughout the 
fiscal year. Carl F. Miller, archeologist, continued to operate from 
this office, while Joseph R. Caldwell joined the staff as archeologist 
on December 14, 1947, by transfer from the United States National 
Museum, and Ralph S. Solecki was appointed in the same capacity 
on March 2, 1948. 
Mr. Miller spent the months from the beginning of the fiscal year 
until January in completing a “Comprehensive Report on the Archeo- 
logical Aspects of the Buggs Island Reservoir, Virginia and North 
Carolina.” He left Washington on January 10, 1948, in company with 
Mr. Caldwell, for Augusta, Ga., where they conferred with the Resi- 
dent Engineer of the Clark Hill project on the Savannah River. 
From Augusta they proceeded to Lincolnton, Ga., where they estab- 
lished headquarters, January 13, and proceeded to make a survey of 
