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Kellerman many years ago, including numerous liistorically impor- 

 tant specimens. E. C. Tveonard of the department staff donated his 

 private herbarium consisting of approximately 9,300 specimens ac- 

 cumulated over a period of many years. 



Transfers from other Government agencies yielded several fine col- 

 lections : From the Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, 983 specimens collected by Richard Evans Schultes in 

 Colombia; 6,066 specimens collected in India, Afghanistan, and Iran 

 by Walter Koelz ; and a historic set of 575 central European crypto- 

 gams, the Kryptogamae Germaniae Exsiccatae. From the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, 1,360 plants of Alaska with a request for identifi- 

 cations; and 1,105 plants of Micronesia collected by F. R. Fosberg. 

 The National Research Council, through the Pacific Science Board, 

 transferred 532 plants of the Caroline Islands collected by S. F. 

 Glassman. 



Important exchanges included 2,009 plants of Mexico, Central 

 America, and South America, from the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia collected by the late F. W. Pennell. 



Geology. — Outstanding gifts to tlie mineral collections are examples 

 of the rare minerals hurlburtite and bismutotantalite from Prof. E. 

 Tavora; rare iron and manganese phosphates from Finland from 

 Dr. Mary Mrose; a superb specimen of crystallized wolframite from 

 Korea from C. S. Wlietzel ; the rare uranium mineral kasolite, Hahns 

 Peak, Colo., from C. R. Reddington; and a combination of the rare 

 minerals schallerite and hedyphane, Franklin, N. J., from J. S. 

 Albanese. 



Included in the exhibition material added to the Roebling collection 

 were a group of large flawless axinite crystals of smoky lavender 

 color on actinolit^ from Madera County, Calif., a large benitoite 

 crystal in neptunite from San Benito County, Calif., and a bastnaesite 

 crystal from Madagascar weighing 11 pounds. A mass of native 

 lead weighing 80 pounds is one of the largest masses of this rare 

 mineral found at Langban, Sweden. A sharp dodecahedral crystal 

 of grossularite of an unusual pink color is one of the largest crj^stals 

 of this mineral known. 



Among the outstanding exhibition specimens added to the Canfield 

 collection were a rich nodule of precious turquoise from the mines at 

 Villa Grove, Colo., a rare group of tourmaline crystals of bronze-green 

 color from Brazil, and a fine exhibition group of apophyllite on prelm- 

 ite from a newly discovered occurrence near Centreville, Va. 



Gifts to the gem collection included a pink pearl from East Pak- 

 istan presented by the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mohammed 

 Ali, and an outstanding collection from W. F. Ingram, of 33 cut 

 tourmalines weighing 118 carats, selected to show the color range 



