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Dr. Mason E. Hale and Dr. Thomas R. Soderstrom collected 3,841 

 specimens in Mexico, consisting mostly of lichens, and Dr. Jolin E. 

 Ebinger collected 5,086 specimens in Panama, primarily on Barro 

 Colorado Island. There were transferred from the U.S. Geological 

 Survey, Department of the Interior, 2,650 Alaskan plants collected 

 by Lloyd Spetzman. 



The division of woods received in exchange from the Yale School 

 of Forestry 474 wood samples collected by Dr. Jolin J. Wurdack and 

 L. S. Adderley in Venezuela; 966 slides of Malayan woods from the 

 Forest Research Institute, Kepong, Selangor, Malaya, through P. K. 

 Balan Menon; 314 wood samples with voucher herbarium specimens 

 collected in Sarawak, from the University of Oxford, England, and 

 1,784 microscope slides of pollen from the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic 

 Garden. Dr. William L. Stern presented 609 samples of wood he 

 collected in Panama. 



Geology. — ^Among the noteworthy gifts received in the division of 

 mineralogy and petrology are a very fine cubic crystal of diamond, 

 weighing 82.5 carats, from Sierra Leone, and a three-quarter carat 

 diamond crystal in matrix from the Bulfontein Mine, South Africa, 

 both presented by Dorus Van Itallie ; a large group of wulf enite crys- 

 tals from the Glove Mine, near Amado, Ariz., and a gem-quality twin 

 crystal of chrysoberyl from Minas Gerais, Brazil, both donated by 

 Bernard T. Rocca, Sr. 



Important additions to the mineral collection received in exchange 

 are becquerelite and fourmarierite from Republic of the Congo (Leo- 

 poldville) ; raspite, Australia ; cronstedtite, Hungary ; and benitoite, 

 California. Newly described species received in exchange are schoder- 

 ite and metaschoderite, Nevada ; masuyite and lueskite. Republic of the 

 Congo (Leopoldville) ; yavapaite, Arizona; and wolsendorfite, 

 Germany. 



The Roebling collection was increased by 1,625 specimens by pur- 

 chase from the Roebling fund or by exchange. Among the most im- 

 portant of these are a collection of 40 specimens of wulfenite, each of 

 exceptional quality, from Arizona; several adularia crystals from 

 Switzerland ; a well-formed cube of uraninite four inches on an edge, 

 from Morogoro, Tanganyika ; and a very fine large gadolinite crystal 

 from southern Norway. Several specimens of outstanding quality 

 were added to the Canfield collection by purchase. These include a 

 90-carat peridot crystal from Zebirget, Egypt; a very large sphene 

 crystal from Baja California; bournonite, England; and apatite, 

 Italy. 



Gems obtained for the Isaac Lea collection by purchase from the 

 Chamberlain fund include a pink scapolite from Burma weighing 

 12.33 carats; a blue topaz from Texas weighing 146.35 carats: a 



