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excavations being carried on by a Eiver Basin Surveys party in the 

 Dardanelle Reservoir area. En route back to Lincoln a stop was 

 made at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and a number 

 of collections of archeological material in the museum there were ex- 

 amined. After spending several additional days at Lincoln studying 

 the operations of the office and laboratory, Dr. Roberts returned to 

 Washington and was in the office at the close of the year. During the 

 fall and winter months Dr. Roberts reviewed and suggested changes 

 in the manuscripts of several detailed, technical reports on the results 

 of excavations at sites in the Missouri Basin and other areas. 



Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthropologist, continued his Eskimo studies 

 and other Arctic activities. He prepared an article on Eskimo art 

 for the Enciclopedia Universale DelVArte^ a 14-volume work to be 

 published in Italian and English by the Istituto per la CoUabora- 

 zione Culturale, Rome. His paper "Present Status of the Dorset 

 Problem," which he presented at the 32d International Congress of 

 Americanists in Copenhagen, was published in the Proceedings of the 

 Congress. 



In May Dr. Collins participated in an international conference on 

 Arctic anthropology held at the Danish I^ational Museum in Copen- 

 hagen. Also attending were five anthropologists from the United 

 States, one from Canada, four each from Denmark and the 

 U. S. S. R., and two each from Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The 

 purpose of the meeting was to discuss plans for closer international 

 cooperation in Arctic anthropology. Following the conference Dr. 

 Collins visited a large Mesolithic site, Kongemosen, representing the 

 formative stage of the Ertebolle culture, and two other Mesolithic 

 sites at Eriksholm and Langtved, near Holbaek. 



Dr. Collins continued to serve on the publications and research 

 committees of the Arctic Institute of North America, as well as on 

 the committee which plans the research program of the Arctic Re- 

 search Laboratory at Point Barrow, operated by the Office of Naval 

 Research. He also continued as chairman of the Directing Commit- 

 tee which plans and supervises the work of the Arctic Bibliography^ 

 a comprehensive annotated and indexed bibliography of publications 

 in all fields of science relating to the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions 

 of America and Eurasia. The work is being prepared by the Arctic 

 Institute of North America for the Department of Defense. Volume 

 8 of the Bibliography, which abstracts and indexes the contents of 

 5,623 publications in English, Russian, German, and the Scandinavian 

 and 17 other languages, was delivered to the Government Printing 

 Office in June. This makes a total of 49,087 publications that have 

 been abstracted thus far in Arctic Bibliography, 



