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he generously proffered a selection of interesting and unusnal speci- 

 mens. A visit also was made to the University of Heidelberg. 



Mr. Clarke then returned home by way of England, stopping again 

 at the British Museum, while Mr. Henderson continued on to Copen- 

 hagen, where he studied the meteorite collection in the Danish National 

 Museum and arranged to exchange Philippine telctites for much- 

 needed moldavites. He also spent 2 days with Dr. Vagn Buchwald, 

 metallurgist with the Laboratory of Metals in Copenhagen, who is 

 working on some specimens that were described from Smithsonian 

 collections. 



Back in England early in October, Mr. Henderson visited Dr. H. J. 

 Axon of the department of metallurgy. University of Manchester, who 

 also is working on specimens that have been studied in our laboratory. 

 Next, he called on the York firm of Cooke, Troughton & Simms which 

 made the metallograph used in our laboratory. Besides giving Mr. 

 Henderson expert advice on the care and use of the instrument, mem- 

 bers of the firm offered to make pictures of one of the meteorites he 

 had with liim. 



A collecting party from the division of invertebrate paleontology, 

 consisting of Dr. R. S. Boardman, curator; Dr. F. M. Hueber, asso- 

 ciate curator; Dr. J. Utgaard, research associate; and F. J. Collier, 

 museum specialist, went to western New York State for 3 weeks late 

 in May. Following a recoimaissance of the Hamilton strata in the 

 Cayuga Lake region, Drs. Boardman and Utgaard and Mr. Collier 

 went on to Lockport, leaving Dr. Hueber at Cornell University to 

 study paleobotanical collections housed there. In the Lockport area 

 they obtained large numbers of Silurian Bryozoa which will enable 

 reevaluation and statistical analysis of many species. Dr. Hueber 

 rejoined the group at Batavia, where detailed collecting of the Hamil- 

 ton strata was undertaken. As the party moved eastward to the Fin- 

 ger Lakes region, they made extensive collections of Bryozoa from 

 many localities at several stratigi'aphic intervals. A few fossil plant 

 specimens were obtained which are considered especially important in 

 taxonomic and moiphologic interpretations. After Dr. Boardman re- 

 turned to Washington, the rest of the party continued the stratigi'aphic 

 reconnaissance and detailed collecting eastward to the Ithaca area. 

 The entire trip resulted in approximately half a ton of specimens, 

 most of which fall into groups previously poorly represented in the 

 collections. 



Late in October, Dr. Richard Cifelli, associate curator of inverte- 

 brate paleontology, obtained material for his study of the distribution 

 of planktonic Foraminifera in the North Atlantic during the 2- week 

 cruise of the R/V Crawford from Woods Hole, Mass. He collected 



