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in laboratory work and the preparation of supplementary reports 
on the Glendo, Boysen, and Canyon Ferry projects. He also wrote 
a “Summary Report on the Archeology of the Wyoming-Montana 
River Basin Surveys of 1947—with Comments on Smokey Hill and 
Republican River Sub-basins in Kansas and Nebraska.” Mr. Bliss 
presented two papers at the Fifth Conference for Plains Archeology 
in November. One of these summarized the results of the archeologi- 
cal surveys in Wyoming and Montana and the other discussed the 
subject of Early Man in the northwest Plains. Mr. Bliss also attended 
the joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and 
the Society for American Archeology at Albuquerque, N. Mex., in 
December, and presented a paper dealing with archeological problems 
in the western Plains. 
As previously stated, Paul L. Cooper was in charge of a survey party 
which at the beginning of the fiscal year was operating in the Fort 
Randall Reservoir area in South Dakota. On July 12 and 13 Mr. 
Cooper attended a field conference of workers in upper Missouri River 
archeology at Bismarck, N. Dak., and from there he accompanied Dr. 
Waldo R. Wedel, field director of the River Basin Surveys, and Dr. 
Jesse D. Jennings, National Park Service archeologist, on an inspec- 
tion trip to a site which was being excavated by the University of 
North Dakota near Fort Yates, N. Dak. From there he returned to 
Lincoln and until August 4 worked on a preliminary report on the 
archeological resources of the Fort Randall Reservoir. On August 6, 
after conferring for 2 days with personnel of the Corps of Engineers 
in Omaha and with the Director of the University of South Dakota 
Museum at Vermillion, Mr. Cooper returned to the Fort Randall field 
unit which had been under the direction of Mr. Bauxar during his 
absence. From then until October 28 he remained with the field party 
and participated in the investigations already discussed in connection 
with Mr. Bauxar’s activities. He then returned to Lincoln to take 
charge of the field headquarters upon the departure of Dr. Wedel for 
Washington. 
Mr. Cooper continued this supervision, which was both technical 
and administrative, throughout the fall and winter months during the 
periods when Dr. Wedel was in Washington. He made several trips 
to Omaha and Denver for the purpose of consulting with officials of 
the National Park Service, the Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of 
Reclamation. As time permitted, the data collected during the field 
season were summarized preparatory to the writing of technical re- 
ports, and preliminary reports were prepared on certain phases of the 
field work. He also participated in the Fifth Conference for Plains 
Archeology, presenting a paper summarizing the field work and dis- 
cussing pottery types found in certain districts in the Plains area. In 
May Mr. Cooper represented the Missouri Basin project of the River 
