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Among the important specimens credited to the Canfield collection 

 is a large specimen of brilliant green crystals of the copper silicate 

 dioptase from French Equatorial Africa, and a large opal mass with 

 brilliant fire from Virgin Valley, Nev. 



Several unusual gems from Burma acquired by purchase from the 

 Chamberlain fund for the Isaac Lea collection include a violet-colored 

 spinal (30 carats), yellow danburite (18 carats), and yellow diopside 

 (5 carats). 



Eleven meteorites new to the collection, purchased through the 

 Roebling fund, are : Cashion, Okla., Achilles, Kans., Bununu, Nigeria, 

 Giroux, Can., Clover Springs, Ariz., Lombard, Mont, Briggsdale, 

 Colo., Livingston, Mont., Ovid, Colo., Taiban, N. Mex., and Kifle, Colo. 



Important gifts received in the division of invertebrate paleon- 

 tology and paleobotany include types and figured specimens of Upper 

 Cambrian brachiopods received from Dr. W. C. Bell, University of 

 Texas; 4,500 specimens of Tertiary mollusks from Los Angeles 

 County, Calif., presented by Mrs. Effie Clark ; and 2,000 specimens of 

 Lower Devonian fossils from Orange County, N. Y., given by Robert 

 Finks of Brooklyn College. Important gifts of Foraminifera are: 

 94 type specimens from Venezuela donated by W. H. Blow ; 28 type 

 slides of Paleocene species from New Jersey given by Dr. J. Hof ker ; 

 and 315 type slides from the Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, and 

 Eocene of Egype presented by Dr. Rushdi Said. 



The invertebrate fossil collections were further enhanced through 

 field trips made possible from Walcott funds. Dr. A. R. Loeblich, 

 Jr., and Dr. N. F. Sohl of the U. S. Geological Survey collected 32 

 microsamples from the early Tertiary of New Jersey. Dr. G. A. 

 Cooper and R. J. Main brought back 12 foraminiferal samples and 

 2,000 specimens of Cretaceous mollusks from Texas. Purchases made 

 with Walcott funds added to the collections 896 Tertiary Foraminif- 

 era and Ostracoda from Czechoslovakia through Dr. V. Pokorny, 

 and 2,000 type Foraminifera from the Upper Cretaceous of Spain 

 from Dr. J. R. Bataller. 



More than 200 specimens of fossil fishes and reptiles from the Upper 

 Cretaceous chalk of Kansas were collected for the division of verte- 

 brate paleontology by Dr. D. H. Dunkle and G. D. Guadagni. Other 

 notable accessions include a skeleton of the largest of the Permian 

 pelycosaurs, Cotylorhynchus, received from the University of Okla- 

 homa ; 26 specimens of Mesozoic and Tertiary fishes of Europe and the 

 Near East from the Carnegie Museum ; and specimens of the Devonian 

 arthrodire Dinichthys, and the shark Cladoselache, from the Cleveland 

 Museum of Natural History. Particularly valuable to the study col- 

 lections were : The subholostean fish Ptycholepus and the holostean 



