REPORT OF THE SECRETARY: NATIONAL MUSEUM 111 



specially selected Bisbee copper ores from William P. Crawford, of 

 Bisbee, Ariz. Frank L. Iless, honorary custodian of rare metals, 

 continued his interest by adding over 50 specimens of rare metal 

 ores and minerals from Canada, the Kola Peninsula, Karelin, Brazil, 

 and other districts. 



Several notable accessions came to the division of stratigraphic 

 paleontology: 26 exchanges arranged largely by the assistant curator 

 to fill gaps in the brachiopod series were received. The British 

 Museum and Dr. R. Kozlowski at Warsaw and Dr. A. Iladding at 

 Lund supplied fine Jurassic and Cretaceous brachiopods. The 

 National Museum at Melbourne and the Dominion Museum at 

 Wellington furnished two line collections from the Tertiary of the 

 Australian realm, and the Paleontological Institute of Vienna a 

 small collection of rare Triassic forms. From Harvard University 

 was obtained a large suite from the Middle Paleozoic of Bohemia. 

 Collections from the Devonian were furnished by Dr. A. Opik in 

 Estonia and by the Museum Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 

 Brussels. Finally, two sizable lots from the Universities of Okla- 

 homa and New Mexico placed in our collection a more adequate 

 representation of Upper Paleozoic bracliiopods from these States. 



Among the other exchanges were two lots of Bohemian fossils 

 from Charles University, Prague; an excellent representation of 

 the Norwegian Cambrian from Oslo; a series of topotypes of Car- 

 boniferous fossils from the University of London; and an interesting 

 series from the University of Adelaide. Dr. H. Justin Roddy again 

 furnished an extraordinary collection from the Lower Cambrian of 

 the Lancaster region in Pennsylvania. 



Several valuable collections were presented, most notable being 

 the fifth shipment of the private collection of Dr. A. F. Foerste, 

 numbering some 10,000 specimens of invertebrate fossils of which 

 over 1,000 are types. Particularly notable is the valuable acqui- 

 sition of several fine fossil starfishes collected by the late Dr. Albert 

 Perry Brigham, of Colgate University, and presented by Mrs. Brig- 

 ham and Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Roth. Dr. J. Brookes Knight, of Yale 

 University, gave about 125 brachiopods from the Pennsylvania n of 

 Missouri, and Prof. G. M. Kay, at Columbia University, a collection of 

 Trenton brachiopods. Tlirough the interest of Dr. Mary J. Rathbun, 

 sLx lots of fossil crustaceans were donated, among which those fur- 

 nished by Dr. Hubert G. Schenck, of Stanford LTniversity, and some 

 pinnotherid crabs, including types, gift of E, \Y. Galliher, Pacific 

 Grove, Calif., were of most importance. 



Among other gifts were a collection of Pennsylvanian gastropods 

 from J. Brookes Knight, of Yale University; a small lot of Pennsyl- 

 vanian fossils from Ralph PL King, University of Texas; a large exhi- 

 bition slab crowded with the gastropod Lecanospira found in Virginia 



