SECRETARY'S REPORT 17 



Plant Introduction and Exploration, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, transferred 704 specimens from Turkey and South Africa 

 and 963 specimens from southern Brazil. Australian plants collected 

 by L. R. Specht while participating in the National Geographic 

 Society-Smithsonian Institution-Commonwealth of Australia expedi- 

 tion to Arnhem Land were presented by the Australian Government. 



Gifts included 283 plants of the table mountains of Venezuela from 

 the New York Botanical Garden; 1,693 Virginia plants from H. A. 

 Allard; 498 specimens, mostly from the Amazon region, from the 

 Instituto Agronomico do Norte, Belem, Para, Brazil ; and 44G Colom- 

 bian plants from the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogota. 



As exchanges, several large collections were received, of which refer- 

 ence may be made to 2,070 specimens, mostly from Cuba, from the 

 Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockliolm; 1,312 specimens from the 

 Komarov Botanical Institute, Academy of Sciences, U. S. S. R. ; and 

 579 specimens from the Belgian Congo from the Jardin Botanique 

 de I'fitat, Brussels. 



E. P. Killip collected 2,281 plants for the Museum on Big Pine Key, 

 Fla., and the Isle of Pines, Cuba. Fieldwork by Dr. Ernest R. Sohns 

 in Guanajuato, Mexico, added 875 specimens to the herbarium. 



Geology — Noteworthy gifts received include an exhibition group of 

 datolite crystals from Joseph S. Rapalus; uranium minerals from 

 Utah from George Dix ; and a large polished slab of rhodocrosite of 

 rich rose color obtained in Argentina from Ellis Clarke Soper. 



A fine crystal of gadolinite from Norway, an aquamarine (beryl) 

 crystal from Russia, a large specimen of vanadinite from Mexico, sev- 

 eral groups of unusual cyrtolite crystals from Colorado, and a milarite 

 crystal from Switzerland were added to the Roebling Collection. 



Included among the additions to the Canfield Collection were a large 

 and unusual cruciform twin crystal of quartz from Mexico, a group of 

 quartz crystals from Madagascar, an emerald crystal from Austria, an 

 opal from Australia, and a large green tourmaline crystal from Brazil. 

 The Chamberlain bequest provided funds for the purchase of a 28.8- 

 carat green apatite from Burma and a 17.3-carat pink scapolite cat's- 

 eye from Ceylon. A very unusual golden beryl cat's-eye from Mada- 

 gascar, weighing 43 carats, was acquired for the gem collection by 

 exchange. Dr. Stuart H. Perry continued his interest in the meteorite 

 collection by donating a sample of the unique Soroti, Uganda, meteor- 

 ite ; other meteorites, mostly from the United States, were acquired by 

 gift or purchase. 



As gifts, the Museum received Permian gastropods from the Florida 

 Mountains, N. Mex., Miocene mollusks from Bogachiel River, Wash., 

 Cretaceous and Tertiary Foraminifera from Egypt, Cretaceous inver- 

 tebrates from Texas, Permian invertebrates from Sicily, Devonian 



