12 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



The Frances Lea Chamberlain bequest provided funds for the pur- 

 chase of the C. R. Laws collection of about 12,500 mollusks assembled 

 by one of New Zealand's outstanding malacologists. The second 

 largest accession was a gift from W. E. Old, Jr., of 8,200 mollusks, 

 representing many rare and otherwise unportant species. Two note- 

 worthy collections of Pacific marine mollusks were received, totaling 

 about 3,900 specimens. 



Botany. — Among the important plant collections received as ex- 

 changes were 3,793 specimens from the Museum National d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Paris, including 3,050 ferns, many of them isotypes, and 

 valuable historic collections such as those of L'Herminier from Guada- 

 loupe, Leprieur from French Guiana, and Bourgeau from Mexico; 

 5,808 plants of Indonesia from Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor, Indo- 

 nesia; and 2,582 photographs of type specimens received from the 

 Chicago Natural History Museum. Other collections include 896 

 specimens acquired from the Texas Research Foundation, Renner, 

 Tex., and collected by Dr. C. L. Lundell and Percy Gentle in Texas, 

 Mexico, and Central America ; 587 specimens received from the Gray 

 Herbarium, Harvard University, and collected in Costa Rica by Miss 

 Edith Scammon and in Peru by Dr. and Mrs. Rolla M. Tryon; and 

 162 plants of Israel from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 



Gifts included 4,498 plants collected on Trinidad, Tobago, and 

 other West Indian islands by Dr. Richard S. Cowan on the 1959 

 Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition; 5,476 plants presented 

 by Dr. Jose Cuatrecasas, collected by him in Colombia ; 1,226 excellent 

 specimens of Pennsylvania plants given by Muhlenberg College, Allen- 

 town, Pa.; 396 specimens, largely ferns, constituting the personal 

 herbarium of the late Frank N. Irving, received from Mrs. Florence 

 Skougaard, Washington, D.C.; and 855 specimens collected in Santa 

 Catarina, Brazil, by Rev. Pe. Raulino Reitz and R. Klein, received 

 from the Herbario "Barbosa Rodrigues," Santa Catarina. 



Curator C. V. Morton collected 1,395 plants in boreal Quebec and 

 Ontario while on a field trip preceding the IX International Botani- 

 cal Congi-ess at Montreal; and Robert R. Ireland obtained on field 

 trips 2,678 mosses from Virginia, Missouri, and Kentucky. Trans- 

 ferred from the U.S. Geological Survey were 1,868 plants of Polynesia 

 collected by Dr. F. R. Fosberg and 1,348 plants of Alaska collected 

 by Dr. L. A. Spetzman. Obtained from Dr. M. Jacobs, Leiden, 

 Netherlands, were 611 plants collected by him in Borneo, and from 

 the University of Zurich 615 specimens from New Caledonia. 



Geology. — Among the important gifts received in the division of 

 mineralogy and petrology are: A 740.25-carat carbonado diamond, 

 French Equatorial Africa, from Diamond Distributors, Inc., the 

 largest mass of black diamond in any museum in the United States and 



