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Secretary and Dr. E. O. Ulricli, the lower Paleozoic section of this 

 area was worked out in detail, and the representation of its fossils 

 in the National Museum is the best of the Upper Cambrian or St. 

 Croixan period extant. Other Cambrian material prepared and 

 studied during the year was the Millward collection from China, 

 the trilobites of the southern Appalachians, several collections from 

 Idaho and Missouri, and the abundant material from the Burgess 

 shale and other formations of British Columbia, obtained by the 

 Secretary during the summer of 1913. These collections are in all 

 cases quite extensive, the last mentioned consisting of 4,000 pounds 

 of small, carefully selected specimens. 



Work on the reserve collections of Paleozoic fossils in general pro- 

 ceeded as follows : About 100 standard drawers, containing approxi- 

 mately one-half of the Cambrian brachiopod tj^pes, were labeled, 

 completing this task. All type specimens received during the year 

 Avere catalogued and appropriately marked. About 200 drawers of 

 specimens were furnished with locality tags, and approximately 

 2,000 additional drawers were overhauled preparatory to the same 

 treatment. Thirty boxes were removed from storage and their con- 

 tents examined and classified. All card catalogues were brought 

 down to date. This amount of work was only made possible through 

 the assistance of members of the Geological Survey, and especially of 

 Dr. Ulrich. As a further aid, the services of a preparator were fur- 

 nished for one year by the State geologists of Missouri and Wiscon- 

 sin, in return for reports on the stratigraphy of those States, to be 

 prepared by Dr. Ulrich, assisted by the curator. 



The curator spent some time in the preparation of illustrations 

 from Museum specimens for the monograph on Paleozoic starfishes, 

 by Prof. Charles Schuchert, and he also selected and had figured about 

 250 specimens of Paleozoic Ostracoda, to be described in a contem- 

 plated monograph of these fossil crustaceans. Mr. Frank Springer, 

 associate in paleontology, continued work on the classification and 

 arrangement of the fossil echinoderms. He likewise identified the 

 various collections of crinoids and blastoids obtained by him during 

 the year and prepared several slabs of crinoids for exhibition. The 

 Mesozoic fossils received were placed in museum shape by Dr. T. W. 

 Stanton and Mr. T. E. Williard, and, with the exception of 25 

 boxes representing the Hyatt collection, all the Mesozoic material 

 remaining in storage was withdrawn. The reception of 20 new steel 

 cases relieved the very troublesome congestion which had pre- 

 vailed, but at the same time it necessitated the entire rearrangement 

 of the Tertiary collections in charge of Dr. W. H. Dall. With the 

 assistance of Dr. C. W. Cooke, of the Geological Survey, this gen- 

 eral arrangement was completed and a large quantity of unimpor- 

 tant and duplicate material was eliminated. An index card cata- 



