46 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



western Connecticut. During September and October he visited 

 major herbaria in London, Stockholm, Uppsala, Lund, Turku, Hel- 

 sinki, Leiden, Vienna, Munich, and Geneva. One of the purposes 

 of the trip was to subject type specimens to chemical tests. In April 

 Dr. Hale collected in southwestern Virginia, North Carolina, eastern 

 Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, obtaining for chemical analysis 

 approximately 1,000 specimens at 27 localities. 



Associate curator of cryptogams Harold E. Robinson spent 3 

 months, from the end of January to the end of April in Dominica, 

 as a participant in the Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian biological sur- 

 vey of that island. Collections were made of both plant and animal 

 material, including primarily bryophytes, with approximately 200 

 species, and Dolichopodidae, with approximately 90 species. 



Associate curator of cryptogams Paul Conger completed a manu- 

 script on a new species of epibenthic marine diatom from Honolulu 

 Harbor, Hawaii. 



Before resigning in August, associate curator Richard E. Norris 

 completed a second cruise on the R/V Anton Bruun in the Lidian 

 Ocean and made a collection of marine algae and plankton, which 

 is being processed at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center. 



Dr. William L. Stern, curator of plant anatomy, was transferred 

 temporarily to the International Civil Service early in July so that 

 he could spend a year in the Philippines as a forestry ojEHcer with the 

 Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. 



On August 25, Dr. Richard H. Eyde, associate curator of plant 

 anatomy, took part in an AIBS pre-meeting botanical field trip 

 through the Berkshire Mountains. He also spent a long weekend in 

 April visiting the Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina for the 

 purpose of obtaining preserved flowers of Nyssa aquatica, a species 

 which does not grow in the Washington area. He arranged for ad- 

 ditional flowers to be collected as they appear. 



Dr. Eyde completed a comparative anatomical investigation of the 

 flower Garrya^ an American genus of debated affinities, concluding 

 that the closest allies are the Old World cornaceous genera Aucuba 

 and Griselina. 



Dr. G. A. Cooper, chaiiTnan of the department of paleobiology, in 

 company with Dr. J. T. Dutro of the U.S. Geological Survey, made a 

 field trip to New Mexico and Texas from mid-March to the latter 

 part of April. They worked on the Devonian sequence in New Mexico, 

 first at Silver City, and then at Hillsboro, Mud Springs and Caballos 

 Mountains, and Alamogordo (San Andres and Sacramento Moun- 

 tains). In Texas they collected blocks of fossil-bearing Permian 

 rocks in the Guadalupe and Glass Mountains. Lastly, they col- 

 lected Permian and Pennsylvanian fossils in the vicinity of Santa 

 Amia and Jacksboro, Tex. 



