SECRETARY'S REPORT 13 



possibly in the world; kurnakovite, Boron, Calif., from Arch Oboler; 

 and a fine Australian opal weighing 25,5 carats, a part of the original 

 Washington A. Roebling collection, from Mrs. Donald Roebling. 



Outstanding among the mineral specimens received in exchange are : 

 Arsenopyrite from Mexico, metaheinrichite from Oregon, inderite 

 from California, the Ahlfeld collection of Bolivian minerals, and a 

 selection from the Pennypacker collection of minerals of Cumberland, 

 England. Newly described species acquired in exchange are : Stron- 

 tioginorite, Germany; orthochamosite, Czechoslovakia; gastunite, 

 Arizona; eardleyite, Utah; belyankinite and labuntsovite, U.S.S.R. 



About 457 specimens were added to the Roebling collection by pur- 

 chase from the Roebling Fund and by exchange. Among these the 

 following are outstanding: Danburite, Mexico; apophyllite and 

 spodumene, Brazil; and tourmaline, California. Among the speci- 

 mens of outstanding exhibition quality added to the Canfield collection 

 by purchase are: Corundum, Tanganyika; hemimorphite, Mexico; 

 opal, Australia; hubnerite, Colorado; stibnite, California; and the 

 newly described yoderite. 



Gems acquired for the Isaac Lea collection by purchase through 

 the Chamberlain Fund include a cat's-eye sillimanite from South 

 Carolina; a tourmaline cat's-eye from Brazil weighing 76 carats; a 

 29-carat yellow apatite from Mexico; a 375-carat rose quartz from 

 Brazil; a cut stone of microlite weighing 3.7 carats from Virginia; 

 and a 48.2-carat colorless zircon from Ceylon. 



Several meteorites new to the collection were received in exchange : 

 Lillaverke, Varik, Laughalsen, Muonionalusta II, Ekeby, Follinge, 

 Hedaskoga, and Homark, all from Sweden; Ramsdorf, Germany; 

 Raco, Argentina; and Aswan, Egypt. A portion of the Al Rais, 

 Saudi Arabia, meteorite was received as a gift from the Saudi Arabia 

 Government, and W. S. Houston donated a portion of the Winkler, 

 Kans., fall. 



The most important gifts received by the division of invertebrate 

 paleontology and paleobotany are : 600 Cambrian invertebrate fossils 

 including types from the Wind River Mountains from Dr. Christina 

 L. Balk ; 2 lots of Cretaceous and Tertiary Foraminifera from Trini- 

 dad donated by Dr. Hans M. Bolli ; 70 figured specimens of pelagic 

 Foraminifera from the north and equatorial Pacific Ocean from 

 Dr. John S. Bradshaw; 2,025 invertebrate fossils from eastern 

 Fiji from the University of Rochester; 226 invertebrate fossils from 

 MacKenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada, from Alfred Lenz ; 

 9 giant Eocene oysters from North Carolina from Eston Miller; 

 44 holotypes of Foraminifera from the Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary 

 of New Jersey from R. K. Olsson ; 66 Eocene crabs from Venezuela 



