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collecting in the Lower Devonian Water Canyon fonnation. After 

 five days in this area, Dr. Dunkle moved his camp and obtained an 

 extremely important collection of marine Lower Triassic fishes from 

 the Woodside formation in P^ris Canyon. Subsequently the occur- 

 rences of fossil fishes in the upper half of the Triassic Chinle forma- 

 tion in Big Indian Wash near Monticello, Colo., were investigated. 

 On the return trip to Washington stops were made at Upper 

 Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk exposures at Sharon Springs, Oakley, and 

 near Hays, Karis., to ascertain the possibility of securing needed ma- 

 terials for the exhibition program. Museum officials of the University 

 of Oklahoma were consulted relative to the possibility of acquiring an 

 exhibition specimen of the large pelycosaurian reptile Gotylorhynchus. 



Inasmuch as additional fish display material is needed for the lower 

 vertebrate hall now in the plamiing stage. Dr. Dunkle, assisted by 

 Don Guadagni, exhibits preparator, proceeded by Museum truck on 

 May 18, 1955, from Washington to western Kansas. Enroute arrange- 

 ments for the exchange of European fossil fishes were completed with 

 the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and a small collection of fish re- 

 mains was made in excavations in the Upper Devonian along the new 

 Ohio Turnpike right-of-way. On arrival at Hays, Kans., George F. 

 Sternberg guided the party to the Haverfield Ranch in southwestern 

 Gove County where camp was established. Collections of fish were 

 obtained from exposures of the Smoky Hill member of the Niobrara 

 formation. 



Through the generosity of Dr. Stuart H. Perry, of Adrian, Midi., 

 in providing travel funds, E. P. Henderson, associate curator, division 

 of mineralogy and petrology, was enabled to examine the meteorite 

 collections of the British Museum (Natural History) at London, as 

 well as those at the universities of Bonn and Munich in Germany. 

 More than 450 meteorites were reviewed at the Institute de Mineralogie 

 et Petrographie, Universite de Strasbourg, France. At Vienna, Aus- 

 tria, he examined the meteorite collection in the Naturhistorischen 

 Hofmuseum, which is regarded as the best in Europe. Pie devoted 

 approximately a week to the examination of the collection of the Lab- 

 oratorido Astrofisico, Castel Gondolfo, Specola Vaticana, near Rome, 

 Italy, and subsequently examined the meteorites housed in the Mu- 

 seum National d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, France, and those not 

 represented in our national collections were listed. This trip covered 

 the period from August 20 to October 30, 1954. 



The generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bredin, of Greenville, Del., 

 enabled the Smithsonian Institution to undertake a field investigation 

 of the plant mites and other types of the smaller animal life of central 

 Africa. The field party, which assembled at Leopoldville, Belgian 

 Congo, April 8-11, 1965, consisted of Dr. Waldo L. Sclmiitt, head 



