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which 1,814 were from the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogota, 

 Colombia; 1,509 were from Gray Herbarium, collected in Newfound- 

 land and eastern United States ; 1,043 from the California Academy of 

 Sciences, collected in California and western United States: 795 

 Canadian Arctic plants from the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa; 

 595 from the New York Botanical Garden, collected in Kashmir; 

 1,273 Hawaiian and Pacific Islands plants from the Bernice P. Bishop 

 Museum; and 689 southern Brazilian plants from Fundacion Miguel 

 Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina. 



Geology. — ^Twenty-two minerals hitherto unrepresented were added 

 to the mineralogical collection, of which three were received as gifts 

 and nineteen were acquired through exchange. 



The 13 specimens of euclase from Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 

 purchased under the Eoebling fund, comprise some of the finest known 

 sj^ecimens of this mineral. The Canfield bequest provided the funds 

 for the purchase of vanadinite crystal groups from Mexico, two Bra- 

 zilian tourmaline crystals, a large and perfectly formed manganotani- 

 lite and simpsonite from Brazil, proustite crystals from Chile, a fine 

 group of quartz crystals from Japan, and an opalized cedar cone 

 from Nevada. 



An unusual 71.20-carat aquamarine from Ceylon was purchased 

 under the Chamberlain fund for the gem collection, and a very fine 

 110.8-carat pink tourmaline from Manchuria under the Roebling fund. 

 A collection of Japanese cultured pearls, consisting of 2 strands and 

 895 individual pearls, were received as a gift from K. Mikimoto & Co., 

 Ltd. Other additions to the collection included uranium and vana- 

 dium ores from Utah; chrome ores from Pakistan; manganese ores 

 from India ; and tin and tungsten ores from Burma. 



The meteorite collection again benefited by the continuing interest 

 of Dr. Stuart H. Perry, who donated seven meteorites, one of which 

 was an iron recently found at Mayodan, N. C, weighing 15.46 kilo- 

 grams. A small sample of the Maziba, Uganda, Africa, meteorite was 

 presented by John S. Albanese. 



Many noteworthy specimens of fossil invertebrates and plants came 

 to the division of invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany as gifts, 

 including 719 slides of types of Mesozoic and Cenozoic ostracods and 

 Foraminifera from Dr. C. I. Alexander; 20 holotype and paratype 

 Tertiary Foraminifera from P. Bronnimann; 1,000 upper Miocene 

 invertebrates from S. E. Crmnb; 200 Triassic invertebrates from the 

 European Alps, presented by Dr. Franco Rasetti; 600 British Paleo- 

 zoic and Mesozoic invertebrates from Alwyn Williams; and 900 late 

 Tertiary plants from Credo, Colo., presented by the late Belle K. 

 Stewart. 



More than 100 Mississippian and Pennsylvanian crinoids from Ok- 

 lahoma were purchased under the Springer fimd from Harrell L. 



