26 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



cal Survey of Pakistan ; 160 plastotypes of Mesozoic mollusks housed 

 at the University de Lyon; 12 species of ammonites from Moscow 

 University ; and 50 plastotypes of Upper Cretaceous species in the col- 

 lections of the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology. 



Particular mention is made of a collection of 122 specimens of het- 

 erostrachian, acanthodian, and arthrodire fishes from a Lower De- 

 vonian quarry in Lucas County, Ohio, received in an exchange with the 

 Chicago Natural History Museum. 



An interesting collection of Pleistocene vertebrate remains from 

 Cartersville, Ga., was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by 

 Shorter College of Rome, Ga. The assemblage represented includes at 

 least 20 species and is important as the most extensive Pleistocene verte- 

 brate fauna yet discovered in Georgia. 



In the division of vertebrate paleontology two outstanding accessions 

 resulted from field collecting by the staff. Dr. C. L. Gazin assisted by 

 Franklin L. Pearce, collected approximately 350 specimens of early 

 Tertiary mammals. The specimens were taken principally from the 

 Middle Eocene Bridger formation of southwestern Wyoming, but in- 

 cluded also are small collections from the Paleocene of the Green River 

 and Fossil basins of southwestern Wyoming and from the Bison Basin 

 of south-central Wyoming. The collections are important for the 

 wealth of small forms, such as Primates, rodents, insectivores, and 

 carnivores from the Middle Eocene beds of the Bridger Basin. 



Dr. D. H. Dunkle, assisted by Gladwyn B. Sullivan, collected ap- 

 proximately 307 fossil fishes mainly from new localities in the upper 

 Madera formation of Permian or possibly Pennsylvanian age in cen- 

 tral New Mexico and consisting principally of sharks and acanthodian, 

 paleoniscoid, and coelacanth fishes. Other important collections of 

 these forms were obtained from the Pennsylvanian Wea shale in Ne- 

 braska and Iowa. In addition, a small collection of Leptolefis re- 

 mains was made in th^ Jurassic Todilto limestone of New Mexico, 

 and various bones of arthrodires and crossopterygians were collected 

 in a Middle Devonian quarry in Ohio. 



Mineral sciences.— In all, 9,230 specimens w^ere received in the divi- 

 sion of mineralogy. Outstanding among the many important gifts 

 was an exceptionally fine gem-quality topaz crystal from Brazil, from 

 Oscar Heyman & Brothers, Inc. Other important gifts were scapolite, 

 Madagascar, from John B. Jago; rhodonite, Franklin, N.J., from 

 Mrs. Frank A. Lewis; opal, Australia, from Leland Quick; and tour- 

 maline, Brazil, from Bernard T. Rocca, Sr. Outstanding among spec- 

 imens received by exchange was a fine example of cuprosklodowskite 

 from the Congo, a very fine large brazilianite crystal from Brazil, and 

 an exceptionally fine, large, gem-quality crystal of beryl, variety aqua- 

 marine, also from Brazil. 



