24 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1954 



Loeblich, was engaged for nine months in the study of the types of 

 Foraminifera in European institutions for the Treatise on Inverte- 

 brate Paleontology and collected topotype foraminiferal material in 

 England, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, and 

 Austria. As a result of this trip the national collections have acquired 

 the largest representation of European Foraminifera in any institu- 

 tion. 



Dr. G. A. Cooper, curator, and William T. Allen, museum aide, divi- 

 sion of invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany, left Washington 

 in July 1953 for western Texas to carry on geological field work in 

 the Glass Mountains and collect Permian silicified fossils in the Guada- 

 lupe Mountains. Subsequently, they obtained a large collection of 

 Permian invertebrate fossils in the vicinity of Carlsbad, N. Mex. 

 Enroute to Washington they devoted several days to collecting Missis- 

 sippian fossils in Oklahoma. 



During the first week of October 1953, Dr. Cooper, Mrs. Cooper, and 

 Dr. Helen M. Muir-Wood, visiting research scholar from Great Brit- 

 ain, obtained collections from the Devonian in the vicinity of Alpena, 

 Mich., and on the return trip to Washington secured additional De- 

 vonian specimens at Thedford, Ontario, and in New York State. 



On March 8, 1954, Dr. David H. Dunkle, associate curator, division 

 of vertebrate paleontology, and Dr. Cooper left Washington for Ha- 

 vana, Cuba, for the purpose of examining a large collection of verte- 

 brate and invertebrate fossils that had been offered for sale to the 

 Smithsonian Institution by Dr. Mario Sanchez-Roig. It was not 

 possible to arrive at a mutually acceptable valuation of this collection. 



Dr. David Nicol, assistant curator, division of invertebrate paleon- 

 tology and paleobotany, and his wife proceeded from Washington to 

 Fort Worth and Lake Whitney Dam, Tex., on October 21, 1953, to 

 collect pelecypods and other fossils from the Edwards (Cretaceous) 

 limestone that had been exposed in excavations for the new lake. On 

 the return trip they obtained Cretaceous fossils near Austin and 

 elsewhere in Texas. 



Dr. C. L. Gazin, curator, and Franklin L. Pearce, exhibits worker, 

 division of vertebrate paleontology, carried on field work at several 

 Paleocene and Eocene localities in central and southwestern Wyo- 

 ming. Particular success was achieved in the Paleocene of the Bison 

 basin in the late Wasatchian or Lower Eocene of the Washakie basin 

 and more especially in the Cathedral Bluff tongue of the Wasatchian 

 strata interfingering with the lower part of the Green Eiver lake beds 

 in the northern part of the Bridger or Green River basin. At the 

 close of this field season. Dr. Gazin, accompanied by Mr. Pearce, at- 

 tended the field conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 

 held in the Uinta basin of northeastern Utah, and subsequently led a 



