24 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



1,055 specimens of Araceae from southeast Asia from Dan H. Nicol- 

 son; 2,215 lichens of Florida and Minnesota from Dr. Mason E. Hale; 

 and 945 mosses from Dr. Frederick J. Hermann. 



Keceived in exchange were 4,675 plants, which included many collec- 

 tions of historical importance, such as those of Guadichaud, Sieber, 

 Sodiro, and Vieillard, from the Musemii National d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Paris; 1,790 specimens mostly collected in northern South America 

 by Bassett Maguire et al., from the New York Botanical Garden; 

 1,733 specimens from New Guinea, Thailand, and Africa, from the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Surrey, England ; 1,578 specimens from 

 New Guinea received from the Commonwealth Scientific and Indus- 

 trial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia; 1,380 plants col- 

 lected in British Guiana by R. J. A. Goodland, from McGill Univer- 

 sity; 1,126 plants of Central America from the Escuela Agricola 

 Panamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; 380 fine specimens collected 

 in Argentina by Mydel-Peterson from the Botanical Museum, Univer- 

 sity of Copenhagen, Denmark ; 306 selected specimens of South Afri- 

 can plants from the University of Pretoria, South Africa ; 500 mosses 

 from the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden ; 209 plants 

 comprising issues 85-88 of Schedae ad Herbarium Florae Rossicae, 

 from the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, 

 U.S.S.R.; 345 woods from the Servigo Florestal, Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil; and 187 woods from the Conservator of Forests, Kuching, 

 Sarawak. 



A total of 1,347 specimens comprising several collections was received 

 from the Istituto Botanico, Caracas, Venezuela, and 1,142 from the 

 Herbario "Barbosa Rodrigues," Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 

 exchange for names. From the University of Michigan were received 

 542 grasses collected by Rogers McVaugh, and 2,629 woods from 

 Sumatra, the Philippines, Mexico, and British Honduras, mostly 

 collected by the late H. H. Bartlett. 



Transferred from other Government departments were 9,354 speci- 

 mens of Alaska from the Geological Survey through Dr. Robert S. 

 Sigafoos, and 1,240 plants of Thailand from the U.S. Army at Fort 

 Detrick, Md. Collected for the Museum were 564 plants of Alaska 

 from William J. L. Sladen, Baltimore, Md., 554 grasses collected on 

 Trinidad by Dr. Thomas R. Soderstrom, and 205 grasses collected 

 by Jason R. Swallen in South Africa. 



Paleobiology. — In the division of paleobotany important specimens 

 received as gifts include 36 prepared slides containing 84 fossil spore 

 and pollen type specimens from West Africa, from the Jersey Produc- 

 tion Research Co. through R. E. Rohn; 11 silicified stems of the tree 

 fern genus Cyathodendron from the Eocene of Texas, from S. N. 

 Dobie, Wliitsett, Tex. ; and a large, well-preserved limb section from 



