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mollusks from exposures of the Glenrose formation. At Lipan, Tex., 

 samples of the Pennsylvania]! Dickerson shale were collected. This 

 trip extended from July 28 to August 13, 1955. 



Income from the same bequest provided funds for the paleontolog- 

 ical fieldwork of Dr. G. A. Cooper, curator of invertebrate paleontol- 

 ogy and paleobotany. At Fort Worth, Tex., he took charge of the 

 Smithsonian truck and accompanied by Mr. Main proceeded to Ard- 

 more, Okla., where they spent three days collecting Pennsylvanian 

 invertebrate fossils. From Ardmore they traveled to Muskogee and 

 Pryor for material from beds of Mississippian age. At Neosho, Mo., 

 they collected Mississippian productid brachiopods, Pennsylvanian 

 fossils at Bartlesville, Okla., and subsequently Permian fossils in 

 Cowley County, Kans. Other materials were collected in Kansas 

 and Nebraska, and a large collection of Mississippian fossils was 

 made near Harrison, Ark. This field party returned to Washington 

 September 17, 1955. A profitable discussion of problems involved in 

 his Permian studies on the Glass Mountain fauna was held with Dr. 

 Carl Dunbar, Peabody Museum, Yale University, by Dr. Cooper in 

 February 1956. An arrangement was made to secure by exchange 

 some examples of Greenland Permian invertebrates. 



Dr. A. R. Loeblich, Jr., associate curator of invertebrate paleontol- 

 ogy, devoted four days, April 10-13, 1956, to the collection of Paleocene 

 and Cretaceous Foraminifera in New Jersey in strata that are of 

 disputed age. The material obtained was not previously represented 

 in the national collections. 



Mrs. Margaret Brown Klapthor, associate curator of civil history, 

 was invited to lecture at the historic-housekeeping course sponsored by 

 the National Trust and the New York State Historical Association at 

 Cooperstown, N. Y., the last week in September 1955. During Octo- 

 ber 1955, while attending the meeting of the National Trust at Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., Mrs. Klapthor acquired for the national collections a 

 dessert plate of the Polk White House china, Mrs. Polk's lace fan, and 

 a pair of spectacles owned by President Polk. 



During late August and early September 1955, Mendel L. Peterson, 

 acting head curator of history, inspected all existing specimens of 

 early artillery now preserved at Albany, N. Y., the Saratoga battle- 

 field, Fort William Henry, The Citadel on the ramparts, Fort Ticon- 

 deroga, and the Plains of Abraham battlefield in Quebec, Canada, 

 for the purpose of advancing the completion of his report on the 

 marking and decoration of these military objects. Transportation 

 furnished by Life Magazine enabled Mr. Peterson to proceed to Ber- 

 muda to investigate a collection of objects of probable early seven- 

 teenth-century origin recovered from a sunken ship presumably of 

 French registry which had been wrecked there. The ordinary imple- 



