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Transfers from the United States Geological Survey have included 

 collections of Upper Cambrian fossils secured by T. S. levering in 

 Colorado, and other important collections. 



The division of vertebrate paleontology acquired by purchase the 

 skeleton of an extinct lizard, CUdastes, and one of the rare three- 

 toed horses from the Miocene of Wyoming. A further collection of 

 fossil footprints came through Mr. Gilmore's third visit to the 

 Grand Canyon, while work in Florida by Dr. J. W. Gidley has 

 brought important material from the Pleistocene deposits of that 

 State. 



The types of live species of fossil birds described recently by 

 Doctor Wetmore have been deposited by the Colorado Museum of 

 Natural History. ■ , 



Arts and indtistnes. — The single object of greatest popular interest 

 that has come to the National Museum in many years is Colonel 

 Lindbergh's airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis ^ deposited with the 

 Smithsonian Institution, which has drawn large crowds since the 

 first day of its installation. . There may be mentioned also the Pan 

 American good-will flyer San Francisco^ transferred from the War 

 Department, with the Army Curtiss racer airplane which won the 

 Pulitzer and Schneider races of 1925. A Curtiss pusher type air- 

 plane of the period 1909-1914 is also an important addition. For 

 the land transportation section there was secured a White-Stanhope 

 steam automobile of 1901-2. Mr. Guy ISI. Gest, who piloted the first 

 electric railway car operated in Baltimore in 1885, presented a series 

 of photographic enlargements of this vehicle from his original nega- 

 tives. The Hudson River Day Line presented two steamship models, 

 one of Fulton's steamboat of 1807, and one of the Hendrich-Hudson 

 built in 190G and still in service. 



The New Haven Clock Co. presented to the section of horology 75 

 objects illustrating ancient and modern watch and clock movements, 

 together with an exhibit demonstrating how standard time is ob- 

 tained, the whole constituting a visual history of American clock 

 and watch making since 1775. 



The Eddystone Cement Co., through Mr. E. R. Wilmer, pre- 

 sented a 5-foot section of an ancient Roman aqueduct built in 80 

 A. D. in Germany. The structure, which resembles I'ougli concrete, 

 is in a remarkable state of preservation, being apparently as strong 

 to-day as ever. 



The division of textiles received further exhibits dealing with 

 rayon or artificial silk. The Crompton & Knowles Loom Works pre- 

 sented an automatic gingham loom of the latest type. The Bureau 

 of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture trans- 

 ferred three sets of official standards of the United States for grades 

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