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Dr. Webster McBryde were terminated on September 30, 1947. Dr. 

 Holmberg gave three courses in ethnology during the year ; two, in- 

 cluding a seminar on field methods, in the Instituto de Estudios 

 Etnplogicos, and one in the University of San Marcos. Three months, 

 February through April, 1948, were again spent in the Virti Valley, 

 bringing to a close the studies initiated the preceding year by Dr. 

 Holmberg, Dr. Jorge Muelle of the Instituto faculty, and selected 

 students. 



Dr. Holmberg was one of three official United States delegates to 

 the Hylean Amazon Project of the UNESCO in Iquitos, Peru, in 

 May 1948. 



Publications. — Institute of Social Anthropology Publications Nos. 

 4, 5, 6, and 7, appeared during the fiscal year. These are listed with 

 the publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



KIVER BASIN SURVEYS 



The River Basin Surveys, a unit of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology organized to carry into effect a memorandum of under- 

 standing between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park 

 Service providing for the recovery of such archeological and paleon- 

 tological data and materials as will be lost through the construction 

 of dams and the creation of reservoirs in many of the river valleys of 

 the United States, continued its investigations throughout the year. 

 The work was carried on in cooperation with the National Park 

 Service and the Bureau of Eeclamation, Department of the Interior, 

 and the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, and was 

 financed by the transfer of $73,800 from the National Park Service 

 to the Smithsonian Institution. These funds were provided in 

 part by the National Park Service and in part by the Bureau of 

 Reclamation. 



Most of the work in the field was of a reconnaissance or survey 

 nature, with only a limited testing of sites where such was necessary 

 to determine their extent and character. In a few cases, however, 

 actual excavations were undertaken. The activities involved 18 States 

 and 38 reservoir areas. By the end of the year the number of reser- 

 voir basins surveyed, since the first parties started in July 1946, totaled 

 85. Their distribution is: Virginia 1, West Virginia 2, Georgia 2, 

 Tennessee 1, Oklahoma 2, Texas 5, Colorado (outside of the Missouri 

 Basin) 4, California 13, the Missouri Basin (7 States) 50, and the 

 Columbia Basin (4 States) 15. Those where surveys were under 

 wajT' but not completed by June 30 are not included in this summary. 

 In the various areas visited 1,576 sites were noted and recorded and of 

 that number 250 have been recommended for extensive excavation. 

 The excavations completed or in progress on June 30 were: New 

 Mexico 1, Wyoming 1, Nebraska 1, South Dakota 1, North Dakota 1, 



