THE following report, submitted by Dr. Clarence H. Webb, official liaison representative from the Academy to the Children9s Bureau, summarizes the highlights of the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children9s Services at The Children9s Bureau, January 30 and 31, 1950. This general advisory committee, constituted in 1948, meets once or twice annually to advise with the Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children9s Services concerning the policies and programs of these divisions of the Children9s Bureau. It is to be distinguished from smaller technical committees which study and give advice on specific technical problems. Academy members in attendance at the meeting were: Harry H. Gordon, Chairman of the Advisory Committee, Allan M. Butler, John P. Hubbard, Thomas F. Shaffer, Clarence H. Webb, James L. Wilson, Leona Baumgartner, Associate Chief of the Children9s Bureau, and Katherine Bain, Director of Division of Research in Child Development. Dr. Edwin F. Daily reviewed important developments since the last committee meeting. Attention was directed to the Annual Report of the Children9s Bureau in the December issue of The Child, wherein significant increases in child population and changes in maternal and infant mortality rates are reviewed. Cooperative planning and action between the Children9s Bureau and voluntary agencies has been fruitful.
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Until the past few years the Poverty Point horizon was known solely through its manifestation at the type site, Poverty Point Plantation, on Bayou Macon, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Webb (1944), in connection with the description of a cache of stone vessel fragments found near the large Poverty Point mound, pointed out the apparent cultural content of the site, which had previously been mentioned in archaeological literature by Moore (1913), Fowke (1928) and Ford (1936). In 1948, in a description of nonpottery cultures in the state, a further attempt was made (Webb, 1948) to clarify the Poverty Point cultural period as expressed at this site.
