26 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1965 



Valley Historical Society and Old Sturbridge Village for ideas ap- 

 plicable to the improvement of our textile exhibits. 



Jacob Kainen, curator, division of graphic arts, made a critical 

 study of six color prints made in 1744 by John Baptist Jackson in the 

 print department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to determine 

 the number of v70od blocks used in making the prints, and gathered 

 additional data for the descriptive catalog of Jackson's color prints. 



A survey of the paleobotanical materials in the collections of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, including specimens formerly 

 exhibited, was made by Dr. G. A. Cooper, curator, division of inverte- 

 brate paleontology and paleobotany, in November 1954. During 

 April 1955 Dr. Cooper obtained collections of invertebrate fossils 

 from the Porterfield Quarry near Saltville, Va., and from the reef 

 and interreef beds at Blacksburg, Va. A short field trip, financed by 

 the income from the Walcott bequest, was made by Dr. Cooper during 

 May 1955, when invertebrate fossils were collected from the Middle 

 Devonian near Hamilton, N. Y., and from Ordovician rocks north 

 and east of Utica, N. Y. During June 1955, he studied the prepara- 

 tion techniques and the display's of fossil marine invertebrates in the 

 Museiun of the University of Michigan and the Chicago Natural 

 History Museum. The Laudon collection at the University of Wis- 

 consin was examined and conferences were held with Dr. A. K. Miller 

 of the State University of Iowa on problems related to the stratigraphy 

 of the Permian of the Glass Mountains in Texas. 



The rather poor representation in the national collections of 

 Foraminif era from the Miocene deposits of northern Florida and from 

 the upper and lower Cretaceous of Texas and Oklahoma was ma- 

 terially improved by fieldwork undertaken by Dr. A. R. Loeblich, 

 associate curator, division of invertebrate paleontology, and Prof. 

 Eugenia Montanaro Gallitelli of the University of Modena, Italy, 

 during January 1955 under the Walcott fimd. From April 24 to 

 May 12, 1955, Dr. Loeblich was engaged in making a reconnaissance 

 collection of Foraminif era from nearly every major stratigraphic level 

 on Trinidad Island and in studying faunal assemblages in the 

 geological laboratory of Trinidad Ijeasehold, Ltd. 



Dr. David Nicol, associate curator, division of invertebrate 

 paleontology, examined pelecypod material, particularly Conocardi- 

 um^ in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History 

 and the Museum of Comparative Zoology during late December 1954. 



Under the income of the Walcott bequest. Dr. D. H. Dunkle, associ- 

 ate curator, division of vertebrate paleontology, was engaged in field- 

 work from July 24 to September 12, 1954. Prospecting in the ex- 

 posures of Middle Cretaceous Mowry shale south of Cody, Wyo., was 

 carried on for 12 days, and he then proceeded to Logan, Utah, for 



