SECRETARY'S REPORT 13 



lombia, from Fred C. Kennedy. New mineral species received as 

 gifts ^Yere : cliambersite, Texas, from Frank R. Beck ; orthopinakiolite, 

 Sweden, from the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseets, Stockholm, Sweden ; 

 and ferriphengite, Japan, from the University of Tokyo. Outstanding 

 among specunens received in exchange is an extraordinary crystal 

 of kmizite (the lavender gem variety of spodumene) weighing 5 kilo- 

 grams. New species received in exchange were: birnessite, Massa- 

 chusetts; rooseveltite, sigloite, and farallonite, Bolivia; kalilerite, 

 Austria ; yoshimuraite, Japan ; cheralite, Malaya ; sharpite and wyart- 

 ite, Congo; and fleishcherite. South West Africa. 



Outstanding specimens added by purchase from the Roebling fund 

 or by exchange are two groups of very large stibnite crystals com- 

 pletely altered to stibiconite, Mexico; four fine amethyst geodes, 

 Brazil ; a large single crystal of amethyst, Korea ; two groups of un- 

 usually large axinite ciystals, Japan; and a collection of 40 very 

 fine wulf enite specimens from various localities in Arizona. Acquired 

 by purchase from the Canfield fund is a very large single crystal of 

 danburite, Mexico, and a large tourmaline crystal from Baja 

 California. 



New acquisitions to the gem collection are the following: a 423- 

 carat sapphire, one of the largest and finest in the world, from Mrs. 

 John Logan (the former Mrs. Rebecca Guggenheim) ; a large wine 

 pourer cai-ved m white jade, formerly a part of the Vetlesen jade col- 

 lection, donated by Mrs. Mildred Taber Keally; and a female head 

 sculptured in pink tourmaline by Oskar J. W. Hansen, given by Ray 

 A. Graham. Gem specimens acquired by purchase from the Chamber- 

 lain fund for the Isaac Lea collection include a 45.9-carat sphalerite, 

 Spain ; a kornerupine weighmg 21.58 carats, Ceylon ; smoky quartz, 

 Brazil, weigliing 1,695.5 carats; a 71.05-carat brownish yellow spodu- 

 mene, Madagascar; two scheelites, one weighing 37 carats from Cali- 

 fornia, and the other 7.35 carats from Mexico ; and a fine kunzite from 

 Brazil weighing 63.30 carats. 



A number of outstanding gems were received in exchange, includ- 

 ing a very fine 287-carat peridot, an extraordinary 330-carat blue star 

 sappliire, and a fine ruby spinel weigliing 36.10 carats, all from Burma ; 

 and an excellent 187-carat aquamarine from Brazil. 



During the year 25 different meteorites were added to the meteorite 

 collection, including 15 new to the collection. Obtained as gifts were 

 the following : four specimens of the Murray, Ky., meteorite having 

 a total weight of 163 grams, donated by Dyer Observatoiy, Vander- 

 bilt University; a complete stone which fell in her yard was given 

 by Mrs. Jay Law, Garland, Utah ; and a piece of a new Carbonaceous 

 chondrite from Belle, Tex., donated by Oscar Momiig, Fort Worth, 

 Tex. 



