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peridot from Arizona ■weighing 22.9 carats; and a 9.53 carat yellow 

 tourmaline from Brazil. 



During the past year the meteorite collection continued its growth. 

 Seven meteorites new to the collection were obtained : Abee, Canada ; 

 Bruderheim, Canada; Kandahar, Afghanistan; Treysa, Germany; 

 Utzenstorf, Switzerland; Aroos, Kussia; and Moab, United States. 



The division of invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany acquired 

 some important fossil collections. The famous Greene collection, com- 

 prising 110,000 specimens and consisting mostly of Devonian corals, 

 was given by the American Museum of Natural History. A bequest 

 was received from the estate of Mrs. Ruby F. Eenf ro of approximately 

 50,000 specimens of Pennsylvanian, Permian, and Cretaceous fossils 

 of north-central Texas and a small collection from Europe. Other 

 gifts include 1,000 Devonian invertebrate fossils from the upper Dun- 

 dee limestone and the Silica shale, Michigan and Ohio, donated by 

 Dr. Erie G. Kauffman, 36 fossil crabs from the Pliocene of Virginia, 

 from George Webb ; and 167 smaller Foraminifera from the IMissis- 

 sippian of southern Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Oliio, pre- 

 sented by Dr. J. E. Conkin. 



Fieldwork made possible from funds of the Walcott bequest yielded 

 600 echinoids from the Paleocene, collected in Georgia by Dr. Porter 

 M. Kier in collaboration with Dr. Druid Wilson of the U.S. Geological 

 Survey ; 2,500 Upper Cretaceous, Paleocene, and Eocene invertebrate 

 fossils collected in Maryland by Dr. Erie G. Kauffman, with Dr. 

 Norman F. Sohl and Dr. Harlan R. Bergquist of the U.S. Geological 

 Survey; and 1,000 Pennsylvanian fossils collected in Texas by Dr. 

 G. Arthur Cooper and Dr. Richard E. Grant. 



The division of vertebrate paleontology received an outstanding ac- 

 cession of about 202 specimens representing fish, amphibians, and 

 reptiles from various Permian formations in Texas and Kansas. These 

 specimens were collected by Dr. Nicholas Hotton III and John E. 

 Gassaway, through funds provided by the Walcott bequest. Particu- 

 lar mention is made of a nearly complete and articulated skeleton of 

 the small predaceous amphibian AcrojJlous vorax taken from the Per- 

 mian Speiser formation of Kansas, and a large part of a skeleton 

 of the primitive cotylosaurian reptile Lahidosauras sp., from the 

 Permian Arroyo formation of Texas. The jaws, part of the skull, 

 and several vertebrae of a very large baleen whale were collected 

 from the Miocene Yorktown formation near Hampton, Va., by Dr. 

 Nicholas Hotton III, Kurt F. Hauschildt, and Dr. Frank C. Whit- 

 more, Jr. Dr. Hotton, assisted by William E. Moran, a former em- 

 ployee, also secured a partial skeleton, including the greater part of 

 a skull, of a rare embolomerous amphibian from the Mauch Chunk 

 formation of Mississippian age. 



