14 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



Fourteen meteorites were obtained by exchange with the following 

 institutions: Geological Survey of India; Committee on Meteorites, 

 Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. ; Universitets Mineralogiske Museum, 

 Copenhagen, Denmark; Geological Survey of South Africa; and 

 Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Two recent falls, 

 Ras Tamur, Saudi Arabia, and Ehole, Angola, were obtained by trans- 

 fer from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. 



Several large and important collections of fossil plants and in- 

 vertebrates were acquired this year by the division of invertebrate 

 paleontology and paleobotany. Funds from the income of the Walcott 

 bequest were used to purchase the incomparable Bones collection 

 of Eocene seeds, nuts, fruits, and wood from Oregon, consisting of 

 over 5,000 specimens of remarkable preservation collected and pre- 

 pared by Thomas J, Bones, of Vancouver, Wash., over a period of 20 

 years. The Walcott bequest also made possible field work which 

 yielded 10,000 Cretaceous mollusks and 500 Foraminifera samples, 

 collected by associate curator Erie G. Kauffman and Dr. Norman F. 

 Sohl ; and 10,000 specimens of Ordovician and Silurian invertebrates 

 from those respective formations of Great Britain, Norway, and 

 Sweden collected by curator Richard S. Boardman. 



Donations from collectors outside of the Museum accomited for the 

 following gifts: 1,500 Lower Paleozoic fossils from areas including 

 Nova Scotia, Maine, Germany, and Gotland from Dr. Arthur J. 

 Boucot, of the California Institute of Technology ; 345 type specimens 

 of Foraminifera from California and the Mississippi Delta regions 

 from Miss Frances L. Parker, of Scripps Institution of Oceanogra- 

 phy ; 175 type specimens of planktonic Foraminifera from the Carib- 

 bean region from Dr. Pedro J. Bermudez, of Venezuela ; 87 ostracod 

 types from the early Middle Ordovician of eastern United States and 

 146 types from the Gubic formation of northern Alaska from Dr. 

 F. M. Swain, Jr., University of Minnesota ; 300 specimens from the 

 Ripley formation received from the Mid-South Earth Science Club 

 of Tennessee ; 350 specimens from the Devonian of the Spanish Sahara 

 from the Pan American Hispano Oil Co. ; and 332 Mesozoic specimens 

 from Saudi Arabia donated by the American Arabian Oil Co. 



Transfer of collections from the U.S. Geological Survey includes 

 the Hass collection of conodonts, numbering an estimated 40,000 speci- 

 mens and several hundred types; 168 Middle and Upper Devonian 

 cephalopods collected by Dr. Mackenzie Gordon in Morocco ; an esti- 

 mated 35,600 Bryozoa from the Lower Paleozoic of New York, West 

 Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee, collected by Dr. Boardman. 



A collection of 189 specimens of fossil mammal-like reptiles from 

 the Karroo, Republic of South Africa, was accessioned in the division 

 of vertebrate paleontology. These specimens are representative of 



