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of this gem stone. An uncommon specimen received for the ore 

 collection was the limb bone of a dinosaur partially replaced by 

 unarinite, from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Kailway Co. through 

 T.O.Evans. 



During the past year Dr. S. H. Perry donated 35 specimens of 

 meteorites. Among them was a stone of the Sylacauga fall, weighing 

 1,682 grams. Another individual of this fall became celebrated as 

 the first known case of a meteorite striking a person. 



The support of the Walcott fund again permitted staff members 

 to obtain important accessions in invertebrate paleontology and paleo- 

 botany. Specimens numbering 15,000 of Paleozoic invertebrates were 

 collected by Dr. G. A. Cooper and Kobert Main, and a very large 

 group of Mesozoic and Tertiary Foraminifera from the classic local- 

 ities of Europe was obtained by Drs. A. R. Loeblich, Jr., and Helen 

 Tappan Loeblich. 



Particular mention is made of the gift of 2,000 specimens of Silurian 

 and Devonian fossils from little-known areas in New Brmiswick, Nova 

 Scotia, and Quebec, received from Dr. Arthur Boucot, and 800 Trias- 

 sic invertebrate fossils from the Italian Alps from Dr. Franco Ra- 

 setti. Important foraminiferal donations included 275 type speci- 

 mens from the Cretaceous rocks of Cuba and Trinidad presented by 

 Dr. P. Bronnimann, and 320 slides of type Recent Foraminifera and 

 305 foraminiferal slides from the North Atlantic from Dr. Fred 

 Phleger. Another very valuable gift presented by Drs. A. R. Loeb- 

 lich, Jr., and Helen Tappan Loeblich consisted of 1,000 micro-samples 

 and 3,500,000 specimens of mounted Foraminifera with many types 

 from the Cretaceous of Texas. 



Through the income of the Walcott fund a collection of about 600 

 specimens of rare Paleocene and Eocene mammals was obtained by 

 Dr. C. L. Gazin and F. L. Pearce from southern Wyoming. Of par- 

 ticular interest were an excellent skull and some skeletal material of 

 the large pantodont mammal Coryphodon and two well-preserved 

 skulls of the condylarth mammal Meniscotherium. Under the same 

 fimd Dr. D. H. Dunkle collected fossil fish and reptile remains from 

 Devonian, Triassic, and Cretaceous rocks of Utah, Idaho, and Wyo- 

 ming. An outstanding gift was a nearly complete skull of the large 

 saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis collected from the Pleistocene de- 

 posits of Texas by George Klett and presented to the Museum through 

 James E. Conkin. A remarkable collection of about 750 otoliths of 

 leleostean fishes from the Eocene lower Barton beds of Hampsliire, 

 England, representing 22 genera and 28 species, was given by Dr. F. C. 

 Stinton. 



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