42 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1961 



floor halls in the Natural History Building have been renovated 

 and opened to public view. 



Curatorial planning of exhibits for the large Hall of Oceanic 

 Life, now under construction, comprised the major exliibits project 

 of the department of zoology during the year. All members of the 

 curatorial staffs of the divisions of fishes, marine invertebrates, and 

 mollusks were actively engaged in this project, and those of the di- 

 visions of mammals and reptiles and amphibians were involved to 

 some extent. Four field trips have been made to collect materials for 

 this hall. Dr. Joseph P. E. Morrison and James Watson obtained 

 materials for the marshy-shore and sandy-beach groups near Ocean 

 Spring, Miss., and Beaufort, N.C. For the Pacific coast rock-shore 

 and tidepool habitat group, Charles E. Cutress, Jr., and Eaymond 

 E. Hays visited Cape Arago, Oreg. Coral-shore specimens were 

 collected by Dr. Frederick M. Bayer and Anthony DiStefano at Sol- 

 dier Key off Miami, Fla. Dr. Morrison and Thomas G. Baker 

 gathered material and information for the coral-reef exhibit in New 

 Caledonia. Five casts of fishes near record size have been donated 

 by Al Pfiueger of North Miami, Fla. 



Because of the necessarily long period of time during which the 

 large east Hall 2 and the northeast Hall 6 will be closed, a selection 

 of dinosaurs and Pleistocene animals of popular interest has been 

 placed on display in the rotunda of the Natural History Building. 



During the year 16 new exhibits interpreting the history of medi- 

 cine, dentistry, and pharmacy were installed on the east gallery of 

 the Arts and Industries Building, bringing the total of modernized 

 exhibits in the field of medical sciences to 28. These new displays 

 illustrate the practice of bloodletting through the ages, the develop- 

 ment of surgical anesthesia, spectacles, medicine chests, antique 

 drug jars, tools of the apothecary, and dental instruments. A new 

 exhibit on the eye was installed in the hall of health. 



A special exhibition of the "geophysical globe," a new relief globe 

 of superior accuracy, was held in the rotunda of the Arts and Indus- 

 tries Building during April 1961. A diorama prepared for exhibition 

 in the hall of electricity of the Museum of History and Technology, 

 depicting the broadcast of a program from the studio of KDKA (one 

 of the pioneer commercial broadcasting stations in the world) during 

 the winter of 1921-22, was placed on public display. A special ex- 

 hibition, featuring the model of the 1819 steamship Savannah^ was 

 displayed in the watercraft hall in celebration of National Maritime 

 "Week, May 21-27, 1961. The locomotive "Pioneer," which served the 

 Cumberland Valley Eailroad in 1851, was placed on exhibition in the 

 east hall of the Arts and Industries Building in February 1961. Two 

 landmark machine tools of 1865-75, completely restored and made 

 operative by William Henson, were placed on exhibition in the south- 



