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uring about 3 feet square, from Colorado. The following persons 

 likewise added unusually fine material to the collection: Ernest 

 Schernikow, a slab of precious opal from Honduras; F. F. Bradley, 

 a fine group of celestite crystals from Clay Center, Ohio ; Mark Bandy, 

 a large specimen of the rare iron sulphate quetenite, from Chile; 

 Boodle Lane, a specimen of galena showing parallel growth, and John 

 C. Wells, specimens of new phosphate minerals from the Black Hills. 



Twenty- two specimens, including 14 falls new to the collection, 

 were added to the meteorite series. Two of exceptional interest 

 are from Meteor Crater, Canyon Diablo, Ariz., one a complete 

 individual weighing 1,011 pounds, one of the largest masses recovered 

 at this famous crater, the other the mass from which were obtained 

 the first diamonds found in a meteorite. Another example is the 

 largest individual of a shower that fell at Archie, Mo., on August 

 10, 1932, during the Perseid meteor shower. This is the second 

 known instance of the fall of a meteorite during a meteor shower. 

 Other meteorite accessions are one half {23% pounds) of the Altonah, 

 Utah, fall; Beardsley, Kans. (945 grams); Bear Lodge, Wyo. (3,120 

 grams); Bencubbin, Austraha (242 grams); Coya Norte, Chile (16 

 pounds 10 ounces); Henbury, Australia (31 pounds); Huizopa, 

 Mexico (2,774 grams); Melrose, N.Mex. (990 grams); Nagy Vazsony, 

 Hungary (36 grams); New Almelo, N. Mex. (1,550 grams); Oroville, 

 Calif. (262 grams); Pinon, N.Mex. (1,410 grams); and Tlacatopec, 

 Mexico (2,430 grams), acquired through exchanges and gifts. 



The United States Geological Survey transferred several described 

 sets of rocks and ores, the following districts being represented: 

 Ellijay quadrangle. North Carolina; eastern Oregon; Squaw Creek, 

 Silver Peak, and Antonio districts, Oregon; and southwestern Idaho. 

 Through the interest of Dr. Josiah Bridge, the Museum obtained from 

 Ramie Inman two large blocks of a handsome diabase porphyry from 

 Fredericktown, Mo. Dr. Robert W. Sayles presented two large 

 exhibition blocks of a glacial conglomerate, the Squantum tiUite, 

 and Dr. Tom Barth collected two large exhibition blocks of gneiss 

 in Norway. 



The outstanding accessions in economic geology are as follows: 

 A pegmatite dike from Ohio City, Colo., containing large sheets of 

 lepidolite mica obtained through E. B. Eckel, of the United States 

 Geological Survey, from Messrs. Werner and Disberger, of Oliio 

 City; a 600-pound mass of gold ore from the Homestake Mining Co., 

 Lead, S.Dak.; two large and colorful potash ores, sylvinite and 

 carnallite, from the Minas de Potasa de Suria, Spain; several speci- 

 mens of halite and related minerals from Hallstatt, Austria, sent by 

 Bergrat Karl Krieger; a series of copper ores and minerals including 

 some large specimens from Butte, Mont., presented by A. L. Bigley 

 and A. E. Blair, of the Anaconda Copper Co.; and a number of 



