12 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



of marine moUusks from the Seychelles, totaling 195 lots, 1,041 speci- 

 mens, were received as gifts from Mrs. Margot B. Banks and Barry 

 Grogan. By exchange from the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, 92 lots, 920 specimens, of marine mollusks from Mada- 

 gascar were received. The holotypes of six species of nudibranchs 

 were donated by the Marine Laboratory of the University of Miami 

 through Dr. Gilbert L. Voss. 



Botany. — The Gray Herbarimn of Harvard University sent in ex- 

 change 873 plant specimens, largely from North America. The Her- 

 barium Bogoriense, Bogor, Indonesia, forwarded in exchange 2,417 

 specimens of Indonesia. Also received in exchange were 950 plants 

 of New Guinea and Australia from the Commonwealth Scientific and 

 Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia; 515 speci- 

 mens collected in Alaska by J. E. Cantlon from Michigan State Uni- 

 versity; 300 specimens from Africa from the Istituto Botanico, 

 Firenze, Italy ; and 840 plants collected by R. M. King in Mexico from 

 the University of Texas. 



Tlie division of woods received the Archie F. Wilson collection, 

 comprising 4,637 wood specimens and constituting a more critically 

 chosen group of specimens from a greater number of species than 

 existed in the division prior to 1960. Mr. Wilson, a business executive 

 with a keen interest in woody plants, was a research associate of the 

 Chicago Natural History Museum for many years. In exchange 727 

 wood specimens from Netherlands New Guinea were received from 

 the Division of Forest Products of the Australian Commonwealth 

 Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Important pollen 

 slides received were 309 from Duke University and 642 from the Pan 

 American Petroleum Corp., Tulsa, Okla. Dr. William L. Stem made 

 a collection of 136 wood samples of the highly peculiar flora of the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



Field collecting by staff members yielded the following for the 

 department : 1,091 specimens, mostly grasses, collected in Mexico, by 

 Dr. T. R. Soderstrom, and 1,423 specimens, collected in Oregon, Colo- 

 rado, Hawaii, and the Florida Keys, by Dr. W. L. Stem. From the 

 U.S. Geological Survey were transferred 593 specimens collected by 

 Dr. F. R. Fosberg on the Pacific Islands, and 766 specimens from 

 Alaska collected by H. T. Shacklette ; from the Agricultural Research 

 Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 325 specimens of South 

 Africa collected by H. S. Gentry and A. S. Barclay; and from the 

 U.S. Forest Service, 415 specimens from Puerto Rico, collected by 

 E. L. Little. 



Geology. — A total of 3,252 specimens was received in the division 

 of mineralogy and petrology. An important gift is a very fine gem- 

 quality crystal of emerald weighing 176.66 carats, from Muzo, Co- 



