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in laboratory work and the preparation of supplementary reports 

 on the Glendo, Boysen, and Canyon Ferry projects. He also wrote 

 a "Summary Keport on the Archeology of the Wyoming-Montana 

 Eiver Basin Surveys of 1947 — with Comments on Smokey Hill and 

 Kepublican Eiver Sub-basins in Kansas and Nebraska." Mr. Bliss 

 presented two papers at the Fifth Conference for Plains Archeology 

 in November. One of these summarized the results of the archeologi- 

 cal surveys in Wyoming and Montana and the other discussed the 

 subject of Early Man in the northwest Plains. Mr. Bliss also attended 

 the joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and 

 the Society for American Archeology at Albuquerque, N. Mex., in 

 December, and presented a paper dealing with archeological problems 

 in the western Plains. 



As previously stated, Paul L. Cooper was in charge of a survey party 

 which at the beginning of the fiscal year was operating in the Fort 

 Kandall Keservoir area in South Dakota. On July 12 and 13 Mr. 

 Cooper attended a field conference of workers in upper Missouri River 

 archeology at Bismarck, N. Dak., and from there he accompanied Dr. 

 Waldo E. Wedel, field director of the Eiver Basin Surveys, and Dr. 

 Jesse D. Jennings, National Park Service archeologist, on an inspec- 

 tion trip to a site which was being excavated by the University of 

 North Dakota near Fort Yates, N. Dak. From there he returned to 

 Lincoln and until August 4 worked on a preliminary report on the 

 archeological resources of the Fort Eandall Eeservoir. On August 6, 

 after conferring for 2 days with personnel of the Corps of Engineers 

 in Omaha and with the Director of the University of South Dakota 

 Museum at Vermillion, Mr. Cooper returned to the Fort Eandall field 

 unit which had been under the direction of Mr. Bauxar during his 

 absence. From then until October 28 he remained with the field party 

 and participated in the investigations already discussed in connection 

 with Mr. Bauxar 's activities. He then returned to Lincoln to take 

 charge of the field headquarters upon the departure of Dr. Wedel for 

 Washington. 



Mr. Cooper continued this supervision, which was both technical 

 and administrative, throughout the fall and winter months during the 

 periods when Dr. Wedel was in Washington. He made several trips 

 to Omaha and Denver for the purpose of consulting with officials of 

 the National Park Service, the Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of 

 Eeclamation. As time permitted, the data collected during the field 

 season were summarized preparatory to the writing of technical re- 

 ports, and preliminary reports were prepared on certain phases of the 

 field work. He also participated in the Fifth Conference for Plains 

 Archeology, presenting a paper summarizing the field work and dis- 

 cussing pottery types found in certain districts in the Plains area. In 

 May Mr. Cooper represented the Missouri Basin project of the Eiver 



