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the Eocene of Wyoming from Mr. and Mrs. Jean Case, Dr. F. M. 

 Hueber collected 2,000 specimens of Lower Devonian plant remains 

 from the Gaspe and northern New Brmiswick region of Canada, the 

 field work supported by Walcott bequest. 



Among the 372,000 specimens accessioned by the division of inverte- 

 brate paleontology are a number of collections which are of major 

 importance. Transfers of type specimens from the U.S. Geological 

 Survey included : 160 Cambrian trilobites described by A. R. Palmer ; 

 46 cephalopods from the western interior ; conodonts from the Great 

 Basin ; corals from the Ordovician of Alaska ; and Foraminif era from 

 the Tertiary of Equatorial Africa, and the Gilbert Islands in the 

 Central Pacific. 



Gifts included several noteworthy additions. Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity gave 3,700 type specimens described in the well-known Paleo- 

 zoic volumes of the Maryland Geological Survey stratigraphic series. 

 One thousand specimens of Middle Ordovician and Silurian inverte- 

 brates were collected in southwestern Ontario by Dr. and Mrs. G. A. 

 Cooper. Dr. R. S. Boardman completed a major collection of more 

 than 200,000 Paleozoic Bryozoa from a number of measured sections 

 in the Ordovician of Oklahoma. Dr. Franco Easetti donated 3,500 

 identified Cambrian trilobites including many type specimens. Dr. 

 A. J. Boucot gave 7,000 Silurian brachiopods collected in Great 

 Britain. A valuable collection of 5,000 mollusks from the Tertiary 

 of Virginia and Maryland was given by Dr. R. J. Taylor. 



Other valuable gifts were: 140 specimens of Upper Paleozoic 

 brachiopods from Chihuahua, Mexico, given by Teodoro Diaz G. ; a 

 large number of Tertiary mollusks from Hampton, Va., by Dr. T. 

 Walley Williams; 10 specimens of unique Tertiary mollusks from 

 Florida by Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Williams; and an extensive collection 

 of Mississippian endothyrid Foraminifera consisting of more than 

 1,000 thin sections, including many type specimens, donated by Dr. 

 Edward Zeller. 



Funds from the Walcott bequest were used to purchase more than 

 20,000 invertebrates, one of the world's most complete collections from 

 the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Chile, from Mrs. Elsa de Biese, Santi- 

 ago, Chile. With the cooperation of the Arabian American Oil Co., 

 and financed partly by Walcott funds, Drs. P. M. Kier and E. G. Kauff- 

 man of the Museum staff collected more than 25,000 specimens of a 

 variety of invertebrates from Mesozoic rocks of Saudi Arabia. The 

 Springer fund made possible the purchase of 1,023 Mastoids and 

 crinoids from the Burlington limestone of Iowa and Missouri, and 120 

 Triassic echinoids from the Moenkopi formation of Utah. 



Outstanding exchanges brought many important specimens includ- 

 ing 1,050 species of Jurassic and Cretaceous mollusks from the Geologi- 



