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Texas 1, and Washington 1. Preliminary appraisals with recommen- 

 dations for further work, supplemented by some technical reports, 

 have been completed for all the areas surveyed. Limited editions of 

 61 have been mimeographed for distribution to the cooperating 

 agencies. The others were in varying stages of being processed at the 

 end of the year. These mimeographed pamphlets have not been 

 made available to the general public because they are not complete 

 archeological reports and are intended to be used only for reference 

 purposes by the Surveys staff while the program is going forward. 

 Reports for general distribution will be issued after the archeological 

 and paleontological work in each unit has been completed. 



General direction and supervision of the work in Georgia, West 

 Virginia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado (outside 

 of the Missouri Basin) , and some of the California projects were from 

 the main office in Washington. Direction of the program in the 

 Missouri Basin was from a field headquarters and laboratory at 

 Lincoln, Nebr., while the activities in the Columbia-Snake Basin were 

 under the supervision of a field office located at Eugene, Oreg. 



The assistance and whole-hearted cooperation given to Eiver Basin 

 Surveys staff men in the field by representatives of the National Park 

 Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Corps of Engineers con- 

 tributed in no small degree to the success of much of the work. At 

 some of the projects temporary office space and storage facilities were 

 provided, at others transportation was furnished, and in a few cases 

 labor was made available to help in emergency excavations where 

 material had to be recovered immediately. The National Park Service 

 not only obtained the funds necessary for carrying on the program 

 as a whole, but also served as the liaison between the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution and the other governmental agencies to the benefit of all 

 concerned. 



Washington office. — The main office of the River Basin Surveys was 

 under the direction of Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., throughout the 

 fiscal year. Carl F. Miller, archeologist, continued to operate from 

 this office, while Joseph R. Caldwell joined the staff as archeologist 

 on December 14, 1947, by transfer from the United States National 

 Museum, and Ralph S. Solecki was appointed in the same capacity 

 on March 2, 1948. 



Mr. Miller spent the months from the beginning of the fiscal year 

 until January in completing a "Comprehensive Report on the Archeo- 

 logical Aspects of the Buggs Island Reservoir, Virginia and North 

 Carolina." He left Washington on January 10, 1948, in company with 

 Mr. Caldwell, for Augusta, Ga., where they conferred with the Resi- 

 dent Engineer of the Clark Hill project on the Savannah River. 

 From Augusta they proceeded to Lincolnton, Ga., where they estab- 

 lished headquarters, January 13, and proceeded to make a survey of 



