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excavations at Medicine Creek and, after his return to the Lincoln 

 headquarters on August 24, assisted in the cleaning and cataloging of 

 the last consignment of specimens from the project. From September 

 12 until October 20 he supervised and aided in the processing of some 

 7,000 specimens recovered from Medicine Creek sites by the Nebraska 

 State Historical Society. As a part of that task all suitable shell, 

 bone, and vegetal material was listed and prepared for submission to 

 specialists for identification. Throughout the winter and spring 

 months he worked with Mr. Kivett in the analysis of the Medicine 

 Creek materials and wrote sections on worked bone, shell, and pottery 

 for inclusion in the final technical report. He also assisted in the 

 selection of specimens and the arrangement of photographic plates 

 for the final report. At the end of the fiscal year he was engaged in 

 making an analysis of the house remains in the Medicine Creek area. 



J. M. Shippee, field and laboratory assistant, returned to Lincoln 

 with the Hughes party on October 1 and from then until November 8 

 supervised the dismantling of the laboratory and its reinstallation in 

 new quarters. Mr. Shippee then accompanied Mr. Cooper to the 

 Fort Eandall Reservoir, where he assisted in the excavation of a burial 

 mound located on the site of the dam spillway. He returned to 

 Lincoln in late November and spent the remainder of the year in the 

 restoration of pottery and other specimens and in the cleaning and 

 mounting, for exhibition purposes, of a juvenile skeleton which had 

 been removed intact from an ossuary at the Harlan County Reservoir. 

 He prepared a paper, "Some Problems of the Nebo Hill Complex,'' 

 which was read before the Anthropological Section of the Nebraska 

 Academy of Sciences on May 7. At the close of the year he was 

 preparing and assembling equipment for the various parties starting 

 for the field. 



Richard P. Wheeler, archeologist, was transferred to the Missouri 

 Basin in May and on May 27 left Lincoln to make a series of prelim- 

 inary surveys at reservoir projects in South Dakota, North Dakota, 

 Montana, and Wyoming. By the end of the year he had visited eight 

 reservoir areas. On June 30 he was at Fort Washakie, Wyo., where 

 he obtained permission from the Business Council of the Shoshones 

 and Arapahos to make preliminary surveys of the proposed Soral 

 Creek and Raft Lake reservoir basins, which are located in the Wind 

 River Indian Reservation, immediately after the start of the new year. 



Dr. Theodore E. White, paleontologist, confined his activities, with 

 one minor exception, to work on the Missouri Basin problems through- 

 out the fiscal year. 



From July 1 to 12 the lower Eocene deposits in the Boysen Reservoir 

 area on the Big Horn River north of Shoshoni, Fremont County, 

 Wyo., were prospected for fossils. Five fossiliferous "pockets,'' which 



