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Dardanelle Reservation in Arkansas. The materials collected by the 

 excavating parties in the Missouri River Basin, as well as the one in 

 Arkansas and those from the Toronto Reservoir area on the Verdigris 

 River in Kansas, which were obtained the previous year, were proc- 

 essed at the Lincoln laboratory. During the first two months of the 

 fiscal year. Dr. James H. Howard, who supervised the project at the 

 Kansas Reservoir, worked in the Lincoln office studying the speci- 

 mens which he had recovered and preparing his report. 



Washington office. — The main headquarters of the River Basin 

 Surveys at the Bureau of American Ethnology continued under the 

 direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. Carl F. Miller, archeolo- 

 gist, was detailed to the regular Bureau staff for the period from 

 July 1 to December 29, in order to continue excavations at Russell 

 Cave, Alabama, and to work up the material obtained from the cave. 

 On December 30 he returned to the River Basin Surveys staff and 

 from then until April 22 devoted his time to the completion of his 

 report on previous excavations at the James H. Kerr (Buggs Island) 

 Reservoir on the Roanoke River in southern Virginia. During the 

 winter months he spoke before several local societies, completed an 

 article on the Russell Cave work for the IsTational Geographic Maga- 

 zine and gave a lecture on the cave before the National Geographic 

 Society in Washington. On April 22 he proceeded to South Carolina 

 where he conducted excavations in the Hartwell Reservoir area. 

 While engaged in those investigations he spoke before several local 

 Rotary and Lions Clubs, several groups of Boy Scouts, and a Naval 

 Research group at Clemson College. On May 23 he participated in 

 a conference held at the University of Georgia at Athens, at which 

 time representatives of the National Park Service, the University of 

 Georgia, and the River Basin Surveys discussed future work for the 

 Hartwell Reservoir area. Mr. Miller returned to Washington on 

 June 26 and on June 29 was again transferred to the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology to resume the activities at Russell Cave. The 

 latter work, which is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian 

 Institution and the National Geographic Society, was to continue 

 through the early months of the following fiscal year. 



William M. Bass III, temporary physical anthropologist, was on 

 duty in Washington at the beginning of the year. He devoted the 

 month of July and the first week in August to a study of human 

 skeletal material from various sites in the Missouri Basin and pre- 

 pared reports on his findings. On August 9 he left Washington for 

 Pierre, S. Dak., and spent the ensuing 3 weeks assisting in the removal 

 of Indian burials at the Sully site in the Oahe Reservoir area. Mr. 

 Bass returned to Washington August 29 and resigned from the Sur- 

 veys in order to resume his studies toward an advanced degree. On 



