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in the Columbia Basin reservoirs, including sites of major and minor 
importance, and a total of 80 in those in California. 
Dr. Philip Drucker, detailed from the regular staff of the Bureau 
to serve as field director, was in charge of activities in this area. Dur- 
ing the period from July 1 to September 30 he made field headquarters 
at Eugene, Oreg., utilizing office space made available to the Surveys 
by the Department of Anthropology of the University of Oregon. He 
divided his time about equally between the Eugene office, where he 
planned the survey work and carried out the routine necessary for its 
operation, and the field, where he at times accompanied the survey par- 
ties, and checked on the results of their investigations. At the end of 
September he departed for Washington, D. C., having closed the field 
headquarters for the winter. In Washington he prepared the reports 
previously mentioned on the basis of the data collected by the field 
parties, in addition to his activities as a member of the staff of the Bu- 
reau of American Ethnology. 
On May 13 he left Washington for the Pacific Coast, stopping en 
route at Milwaukee, Wis., for the purpose of conferring with the 
Committee for the Recovery of Archeological Remains which met 
in that city on the 14th and of participating in a symposium on the 
River Basin Surveys program. He arrived at Portland, Oreg., where 
he conferred with the officials of the Columbia Basin Recreational 
Survey Office concerning the status of various reservation projects 
of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers in the 
Columbia Basin. On May 18 he arrived in Eugene, Oreg., where he 
completed arrangements for office and laboratory space at the De- 
partment of Anthropology of the University of Oregon. From May 
20 to 28 he conferred with officials of the Region Four Office of the 
National Park Service at San Francisco on plans for the field season, 
and also with representatives of the departments of anthropology at 
the University of California, Berkeley, University of California at 
Los Angeles, and the University of Washington. As the result of 
these conferences, arrangements were made for two cooperative pro- 
grams of research. The Department of Anthropology of the Univer- 
sity of Washington arranged to put a party in the field under the direc- 
tion of a member of the River Basin Surveys staff, to make an intensive 
survey and preliminary testing of the Potholes (O’Sullivan) Reservoir 
area in eastern Washington. The corresponding department at the 
University of California arranged to undertake investigations during 
the latter part of the summer in reservoirs in the upper San Joaquin 
drainage that had previously been examined by the survey. 
During the month of June Dr. Drucker was occupied with planning 
the itineraries of survey field parties and obtaining the necessary per- 
sonnel and equipment for them. On June 28 the parties were as- 
sembled, given the necessary instructions, and sent into the field. At 
