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1687 and 1880 were assembled by Mrs. Watkins as a study collection for 

 use and illustration in her "New England Potters and Their Wares." 

 Another important addition, presented by Mrs. Florence Bushee of 

 Newbury, comprises 320 fragments and whole specimens of glass and 

 ceramics excavated by the late Charles H. Danforth at the site of the 

 Boston and Sandwich Glass Co. factory at Sandwich, Mass. 



A cast of the Hotu II skull excavated in Iran in 1951 was donated 

 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and 

 the American Institute of Human Paleontology. 



Zoology. — More than 1,000 mammals collected by Charles O. Hand- 

 ley, Jr., in the Kalahari Desert region of South West Africa, while 

 serving as a member of the Peabody-Harvard expedition under the 

 leadership of L. K. Marshall, were added to the collection. Nearly 

 500 small mammals were received from various units and members of 

 the military services stationed in Korea and Japan. As transfers the 

 Museum received 47 mammals of Madagascar from Lt. Vernon J. Tip- 

 ton, United States Army Medical Service Graduate School; and a 

 series of rodents from the Marshall, Gilbert, Phoenix, and Tahiti 

 Islands from investigators working under the auspices of the United 

 States Geological Survey and the Pacific Science Board of the Na- 

 tional Research Council. Dr. Henry W. Setzer, while giving instruc- 

 tion on the preparation of specimens for purposes of documentation 

 to members of a U. S. Army medical unit, obtained 156 mammals in 

 Panama. 



On the termination of fieldwork in Colombia by M. A. Carriker, Jr., 

 whose collecting has been financed for several years by the income from 

 the W. L. Abbott bequest, 2,174 skins and 225 skeletons of birds were 

 forwarded to the Museum. The Abbott bequest also provided funds 

 for the purchase of 349 skins of birds from Northern Rhodesia, Dr. 

 Harry M. Smith presented 386 skins of birds taken in northern Burma. 

 As transfers the Museum received 58 Alaskan bird skins from the Pub- 

 lic Health Service's Arctic Health Research Center at Anchorage and 

 49 skins and 20 skeletons of birds from the Office of Naval Research 

 taken in the vicinity of Point Barrow, Alaska. 



Collecting on various islands in the Pacific Ocean, chiefly in the 

 Marshall and Gilbert Islands and the Tuamotus, under the auspices of 

 the Pacific Science Board by Joe T. Marshall, Edwin T. Moul, and J. 

 P. E. Morrison, and of the United States Geological Survey by F. R. 

 Fosberg, resulted in the transfer of 365 lizards to the Museum. 



More than 14,000 specimens of fishes obtained by Dr. William Beebe 

 in Bermuda and the Caribbean area were presented by the New York 

 Zoological Society. Other important accessions recorded were some 

 1,500 fishes from the Bliie Dolphin North Atlantic expeditions under 

 the leadership of Comdr. David C. Nutt; 528 fishes from the Gulf 

 -of Mexico and the coast of Washington transferred by the United 



