SEVENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT 6 



Thule as previously assumed. Also in preparation was an article 

 evaluating recent archeological discoveries in Alaska and northeast 

 Siberia and their bearing on pre-Eskimo and Eskimo culture se- 

 quences and relationships in the Bering Strait area. 



In December Dr. Collins attended a 2-day conference on polar re- 

 search held at Hanover, !N'.H., under the auspices of Dartmouth Col- 

 lege and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Polar Ke- 

 search. The conference discussed the probable future course of polar 

 research in this country and the advisability of establishing a research 

 institute to coordinate and administer scientific research in the Arc- 

 tic and Antarctic. 



In June Dr. Collins went to Burke County, Ga., to examine an old 

 Indian village site near Waynesboro where Dr. Eoland Steiner in the 

 1890's had collected an unusually large number of flint implements, 

 now in the U.S. National Museum. The implements, numbering some 

 16,000, were of particular interest because most of them were deeply 

 patinated and were types which are now recognized as belonging to the 

 Archaic period ; one of the types, an unusual form of asymmetric knife 

 or scraper, was identical with a specialized form characteristic of 

 the prehistoric Dorset culture of the eastern Canadian Arctic. 

 Through the cooperation of Eaymond De Laigle, clerk of court of 

 Burke County, and his brothers, Ray and Roy De Laigle, it was pos- 

 sible to locate the site from county records. It was found to be very 

 much as described by Steiner 70 years ago and still prolific in stone 

 artifacts and rejectage. A sizable collection of flint implements and 

 flakes from this and other sites around Waynesboro was brought 

 back for study. 



Dr. Collins continued to serve as a member of the research commit- 

 tee of the Arctic Institute of North America, which evaluates appli- 

 cations for research grants, and of the publications committee, which 

 exercises supervision of the Arctic Institute's quarterly journal Arctic, 

 its Technical Papers, and its series of Special Publications. As chair- 

 man of the directing committee. Dr. Collins also devoted considerable 

 time to the planning, supervision, and financing of the Arctic Bibli- 

 ography, which is prepared by the Arctic Institute for and with the 

 support of the Department of Defense. This comprehensive ref- 

 erence work abstracts and indexes the contents of publications in all 

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

 arctic regions of the world. Volume 8, containing abstracts of 5,623 

 publications in 1,281 pages, was scheduled for publication by the 

 Government Printing Office early in July 1959, and work on volume 

 9 is underway. Subject fields receiving special emphasis in volume 

 8 include body systems, human and other; botany; construction; 

 disease ; ecology ; economic and social conditions ; environmental effects 



