16 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



Among the particularly fine prints acquired by the division of 

 graphic arts are an impression of a chiaroscuro woodcut, "David and 

 Goliath," by one of the earliest masters of this art, Ugo da Carpi 

 (1455-1523) ; two color etchings by Johan Taylor (1650-1700), the 

 earliest pioneer in this medium; a large color mezzotint, "Cupid 

 Shaping His Bow," by Edouard Gautier-Dagoty (1717-1785); and 

 a chiaroscuro woodcut, "Pluto," by the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius 

 (1558-1616). Outstanding gifts of the year included a collection of 

 255 portrait engravings by European artists of the 16th to 19th cen- 

 turies presented by Col. and JMrs. Robert P. Hare, III, representing 

 the work of such artists as Wierex, Bolswert, Leoni, Muller, Audran, 

 and Nanteuil, and includhig contemporaiy portraits of such person- 

 ages as Philip II, Charles I, Galileo, Sir Thomas Chaloner, and 

 Thomas Carlyle. 



Several specimens representative of the development of oilfield 

 exploration equipment were acquired by the division of industrial 

 cooperation, one of these being a 1925 Suess torsion balance. A port- 

 able pipeline pumping unit as developed by S. S. Smith of the Shell 

 Oil Co., and first used in the North African campaign of 1942-43, 

 was transferred from the Department of the Army. Among the 

 items acquired for the hall of nuclear energy were a diffusion cloud 

 chamber and a neutrine detection chamber, transferred with the co- 

 operation of the National Science Foundation. Everett L. DeGolyer, 

 Jr., presented a memento of his late father, Dr. Everett Lee De- 

 Golyer, a pioneer in American oilfield development and a former 

 Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. This electromagnetic detec- 

 tor for reflection seismographic exploration was developed by Dr. J. 

 Clarence Karchcr with Dr. DeGolyer's encouragement and is sym- 

 bolic of the predominance of this technique in oilfield discovery since 

 1925. 



A large number of farm implements and machines were acquired 

 by the division of agriculture and forest products, many of which came 

 from farms in Ohio. One of these is an early type of horse-drawn 

 check-row cornplanter, donated by Clayton Kantner. Another is 

 the Hart Parr tractor donated by the Oliver Corporation. This ma- 

 chine is the third tractor made by the Hart Parr Co., which commenced 

 manufacturing in 1902. It symbolizes the switch from steam to 

 gasoline on American farms and commemorates the general adoption of 

 the name "tractor" as descriptive of gasol ine traction engines. A com- 

 panion piece to the big tractor is a Wallis Model K tractor donated by 

 Massey-Ferguson, Inc. This model appeared in 1919 and is a modi- 

 fication of the 1913 TVallis Cub, the first of the frameless tractors. 

 Another item is a McCormick "daisy" self-rake reaper donated by 

 the Farmers' Jkluseum of the New York State Historical Association. 



