Archaeological interest has existed in Jersey County for a long period of time. As early as 1875, and up to about 1890, Mr. William McAdams was actively interested in collecting and excavating in Jersey, Calhoun, and Madison counties. His work was quite extensive, but unfortunately no detailed report of his Jersey County activities was made. The vast amount of material that he gathered has been widely scattered, except for a few thousand pieces which are in the Museum of the Monticello Seminary at Godfrey, Illinois. Mr. Charles A. Ruebel of Grafton has been collecting for sixty years. About one-half of his material is from Jersey County and the remainder from Calhoun County across the Illinois River. About fifty per cent of his collection was lost in a fire in 1912, and since that time the remainder has been stored and is not available for study at this time.

This is the thirteenth of a series of annual statements covering field activities in North American archaeology, assembled by the Committee on State Archaeological Surveys of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology, National Research Council. The first eleven statements were published each year in the American Anthropologist. The twelfth statement, for the year 1933, appeared in planograph form as Circular Series No. 18, issued by the Committee. The present article is a compilation of brief reports, arranged alphabetically by states, sent to the Committee for this specific use by the representatives of most of the institutions and organizations supporting such field work on this continent. Its purpose is to record briefly the work done and the results obtained during the past calendar year. Space restrictions require the exclusion from this compilation of statements of field work done under private auspices, as well as reports upon laborator, museum, and educational undertakings, and the publications resulting therefrom.