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has been dated through radiocarbon at approximately 4900 B.C. Clifford Evans, Associate Curator, Division of Archeology, is working in British Guiana under a Fulbright Award, with assistance from the Smithsonian Institution.

Philip Drucker, anthropologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology, under a grant from the Smithsonian Institution, during the fall months made an interesting investigation of the intertribal organization known as the Alaska Native Brotherhood among the Indians of southeastern Alaska. This organization, established 40 years ago, is an attempt among the Indians themselves to adjust to modern civilization.

The River Basin Surveys, under the direction of Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., has located 262 archeological sites previously unknown, and has completed interesting studies extending from North Dakota to Kansas.

John Pope, Assistant Director of the Freer Gallery of Art spent three months abroad under Freer funds studying matters concerning with the history of Chinese porcelains in museums in the British Isles, Sweden, Denmark, and France.

ADJOURNMENT

There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 12:20 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Leonard Carmichael
Leonard Carmichael,
Secretary.