18 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1952 



Mexico by the Fish and Wildlife Service through Stewart Springer 

 and Harvey R. Bullis, Jr. 



The most outstanding accession of echinoderms comprised 26 speci- 

 mens from the Gulf of Mexico received by transfer from the Fish and 

 Wildlife Service through Stewart Springer. 



Botany. — Jason R. Swallen, head curator of the department, col- 

 lected 1,764 grasses in Honduras; Dr. E. H. Walker obtained 6,356 

 plants in the Ryukyu Islands and Japan on his botanical survey of 

 Okinawa and adjacent islands ; 232 miscellaneous specimens from Min- 

 nesota and California were collected for the Museum by C. V. Morton ; 

 and E. P. Killip added to the collections 1,367 specimens, mostly from 

 the Florida Keys and Cuba. Gifts included 1,419 specimens from the 

 Arctic Institute of North America, collected by L. A. Spetzman in 

 Alaska; 1,436 specimens from the Museo de Historia Natural "Javier 

 Prado," Lima, Peru, collected by Dr. Ramon Ferreyra ; 1,133 plants of 

 Florida from the Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Fla., col- 

 lected by L. J. Brass ; Oscar L. Haught, Littleton, W. Va., presented 

 1,494 specimens of Colombian plants, representing the most recent 

 results of his productive field work in South America. In exchange, 

 2,072 specimens, mostly phanerogams and cryptogams of unusual his- 

 torical interest were received from the Conservatoire et Jardin Botan- 

 iques, Geneva, Switzerland ; 1,137 miscellaneous Canadian plants from 

 the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada ; 800 plants from the 

 New York Botanical Garden, collected in Nyasaland by L. J. Brass ; 

 982 specimens from the University of California collected by Annie 

 M. Alexander and Louise Kellogg ; 659 specimens from V. L. Kamarov, 

 of the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Union of 

 Soviet Socialist Republics, representing various collections from west- 

 ern Siberia; and 515 plants from the Instituto de Botanico of the 

 Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina, collected in Patagonia 

 by H. Sleumer. The National Arboretum transferred to the Museum 

 567 specimens from Colombia and Ecuador. 



Geology. — Five new minerals not formerly represented in the miner- 

 alogical collections were received as gifts and three as exchanges. 



The Roebling bequest provided funds for the purchase of a large 

 gem spodumene crystal from Brazil, a fine topaz crystal from Colo- 

 rado, and several etched masses of gem-quality beryl from Brazil. A 

 pink octahedron of fluorite on smoky quartz from Switzerland, 

 wolframite on cassiterite from Bolivia, and vanadinite from Mexico 

 were purchased under the Canfield fund. A 53.8-carat spessartite 

 garnet from Brazil was purchased under the Chamberlain fund for 

 the gem collection. Mrs. C. Drage, in memory of her father, Dr. Frank 

 Wigglesworth Clarke, for many years honorary curator of minerals in 

 this Museum, presented a fine cat's-eye chrysoberyl from Ceylon. 



