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sion ever purchased under the Roebling fund. Included among the 

 additions to the Canfield collection were a very fine columbite crystal 

 from North Carolina, a large specimen of native lead with pyrochroite 

 from Sweden, a striking example of rutilated quartz from Brazil, and 

 a group of large wulfenite crystals from Arizona. An outstanding 

 addition to the gem collection consists of 41 pieces made up largely 

 of strands of beads of a variety of gem materials, as well as some very 

 fine cut amethysts, a bequest of Mrs. Edna Ward Capps. In addi- 

 tion to a number of gems received as gifts, an unusual tourmaline 

 cat's-eye weighing 53.20 carats was purchased under the Chamberlain 

 fund for the gem collection. Dr. Stuart H. Perry continued his inter- 

 est in the meteorite collection by donating two stony meteorites 

 weighing 8.4 kilograms and 502 grams, recently found at Kearney, 

 Nebr. Sections of other meteorites were received from the Georgia 

 Department of Mines, Mining, and Geology and from the Institute 

 for Nuclear Studies of the University of Chicago through Dr. Harri- 

 son Brown. By exchange, portions of five Spanish meteorites were 

 acquired from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales of Madrid, 

 Spain. 



Gifts, exchanges, transfers, and purchases added many genera and 

 species not previously represented in the collections of fossil inverte- 

 brates. As gifts, the Museum received 500 fresh-water invertebrate 

 fossils of the Pliocene Truckee formation from Daniel I. Axelrod; ap- 

 proximately 2,600 Ordovician fossils from O. C. Cole; 45 Turkish 

 Jurassic fossils from G. H. Cornelius; 150 invertebrate fossils from 

 Wales, collected by Dr. John P. Marble; 150 Italian Triassic inverte- 

 brates from Dr. Franco Rasetti; and 500 Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and 

 Cenozoic invertebrates from Tunisia, Algeria, and the Sahara Desert 

 from Maurice H. Wallace. Types of corals, Foraminifera, and Car- 

 boniferous fossils were included in the accessions. 



Several hundred Ordovician, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian crin- 

 oids were purchased under the Springer fund from Harrell L. Strimple. 



By the bequest of the late Dr. Joseph A. Cushman, the Museum 

 acquired his library and collection of Foraminifera comprising at least 

 150,000 slides and including about 13,000 type and figured specimens. 

 The Vaughan collection of larger Foraminifera, aggregating about 

 25,000 specimens, as well as the smaller Foraminifera formerly housed 

 in the Cushman laboratory at Sharon, Mass., 1,275 type and figured 

 Jurassic Foraminifera from Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, 

 147 type specimens of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Foraminifera from 

 Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 in northern Alaska, and 653 Silurian 

 brachiopods from southeastern Alaska were received as transfers 

 from the Geological Survey. Through funds provided by the Walcott 

 bequest, the Museum purchased the Renfro fossil invertebrate collec- 



