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in the area. During the early part of November he went to Austin, 

 Tex., where he attended the Second International Congress of His- 

 torians which was being held at the University of Texas. He served 

 as one of the commentators at the session on Pre-Hispanic peoples in 

 the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Following his 

 return to Washington he took part in the sessions of the American 

 Anthropological Association, and toward the end of the month went 

 to Lincoln, Nebr., to discuss various problems in Plains archeology 

 with members of the Missouri Basin project staff and to attend the 

 sessions of the Annual Plains Conference for Archeology. During 

 December Dr. Roberts was a member of a panel at one of the sessions 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where 

 the subject of "Anthropology in the Federal Service" was presented. 



In January Dr. Roberts attended the meetings of the Committee 

 for the Recovery of Archeological Remains held at the Department 

 of the Interior in Washington, D.C., and presented a summary of the 

 results of the preceding year's activities of the River Basin Surveys. 

 He also took part in discussions pertaining to future plans for the 

 Inter- Agency Archeological Salvage Program. At the end of Jan- 

 uary he went again to Georgia where he met with representatives from 

 the National Park Service, various State and local institutions, and 

 assisted in the preparation of plans for a salvage program along the 

 Chattahoochee River in Alabama and Georgia. Early in June he 

 went to Colorado where he examined collections pertaining to early 

 inhabitants of the Western Plains area at the Denver Museum of Nat- 

 ural History and in the University Museum at Boulder. Returning 

 to Nebraska he spent several days at the field headquarters and lab- 

 oratory of the Missouri Basin project at Lincoln where plans were 

 being completed for the summer's investigations in reservoir areas 

 along the Missouri River in South Dakota. From Nebraska Dr. Rob- 

 erts returned to Washington. 



During the fall and winter months Dr. Roberts reviewed several 

 draft manuscripts of technical reports and returned them to their 

 authors with suggestions for correction and revision. In addition, 

 he did the technical editing on a series of six reports on historic sites 

 archeology in the Missouri Basin which will appear as Bulletin 176 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Dr. Henry B. Collins, anthropologist, continued his Arctic re- 

 search and activities. Material was assembled for an analysis of the 

 "Tunnit" legends of the Canadian Eskimos, which describe in some 

 detail the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canadian Arctic. On the 

 basis of recent archeological investigations, particularly those by 

 Dr. Collins in the Hudson Bay region, it appears that the mysterious 

 Tunnits were in fact the prehistoric Dorset Eskimos rather than the 



