14 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



from Dr. W. M. Furnish; and 13 type specimens of Mississippian 

 sponges from Montana from Dr. R. C. Gutscliick. 



Funds from the income of the Walcott bequest permitted the pur- 

 chase of 37 invertebrate fossils from Czechoslovakia, 1,095 specimens 

 from the Pemisylvanian of Oklahoma, 189 invertebrates from Nor- 

 mandy, France, 35 rare brachiopods from Sicily, 1,146 Mesozoic 

 echinoids from France, and 507 invertebrate fossils from Belgium. 



Important exchanges received tlirough the year included 160 Devo- 

 nian invertebiute fossils from Northwest Territories, Canada, from 

 Dr. W. G. E. Caldwell ; 115 fossil moUusks and corals from the Island 

 of Pavuvu in the South Pacific from James E. Conkin; and 1,100 

 Tertiary invertebrate fossils from Japan from Tohoku Imperial 

 University. 



Paleontological fieldwork by Dr. C. L. Gazin and Franklin Pearce 

 under the Walcott Fund resulted in the collection of 200 fossil 

 mammals from various Eocene strata of southwestern Wyoming. 

 Among other outstanding additions to the vertebrate paleontology 

 collections received as gifts are two record-sized tracks of carnivorous 

 dinosaurs from Upper Cretaceous rocks in Utah, presented by the 

 Kaiser Steel Corporation, and a unique skull of the Cretaceous fish 

 Anamogmius zitteli donated by Dr. J. Lloyd Watkins, Wichita 

 FaUs, Tex. 



Science and technology. — An outstanding collection of 21 astrolabes 

 was acquired by the division of physical sciences through the gener- 

 osity of the International Business Machines Corporation. These 

 instruments, representing the craftsmanship of Persia, India, North 

 Africa, and Europe, date from the 13th to the 19th centuries. An 

 equally elegant 16th-century instrument, presented by Lessing J. 

 Rosenwald, is a folding sundial and compass to which several engraved 

 maps and travelers' itineraries of central Europe have been added. 



Other important additions included the magnetometer used by 

 Alexander Dallas Bache at Girard College (1840-45), from the Car- 

 negie Institution; the fiirst cash register of James Ritty (1879), from 

 the National Cash Register Co. ; several examples of the first nylon 

 produced, from E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; and a replica of 

 the experimental furnace used by Dr. Alwin IVIittasch in coimection 

 with the development of the commercial synthesis of ammonia (1909- 

 12), from the Badische Anilin and Soda-Fabrik AG. 



The tools and machine of the famous American instrument firm 

 of Wm. Bond & Son, Boston, were acquired by the division of mechan- 

 ical and civil engineering. Included are a chronometer dated 1812, 

 the first made in this country, and an example of William Bond's 

 important invention, the chronograph. Other important acquisitions 

 are a rare wooded-bed engine lathe of about 1830 and several lathes 



