14 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
erals received from individuals are: genthelvite, Colorado, from 
Glenn R. Scott; opal, Nevada, from Mark C. Bandy; jade, Burma, 
from Martin L. Ehrmann; milky quartz crystals, Colorado, from E. 
M. Gunnell; gorceixite, French Equatorial Africa, from Mahlon Mil- 
ler; spangolite, Arizona, from Arch Oboler; and clinchedrite and 
roeblingite, New Jersey, from John S. Albanese. 
Important additions to the Roebling collection by purchase and ex- 
change include a collection of 249 specimens of exceptional rarity and 
quality; a fine large crystal of phosphophyllite from Bolivia; a crys- 
tal of beryl, variety aquamarine, from Brazil; bikitaite from South- 
ern Rhodesia; an unusually large mass of thorite from Colorado; 
danburite from Mexico; and four tourmaline crystals from 
Mozambique. 
Several items of outstanding exhibition quality were added to the 
Canfield collection by purchase, Among these are proustite from 
Chile; spodumene from Brazil; pyrite from Colorado; euclase from 
Brazil; smoky quartz from Switzerland; and cyrtolite from Colorado. 
Gems and jewels acquired for the Isaac Lea collection by purchase 
from the Chamberlain fund include a 10.8-carat kornerupine from 
Madagascar; an 18.5-carat golden sphalerite from Utah; a colorless 
zircon from Ceylon, weighing 48.2 carats; a star garnet sphere weigh- 
ing 67.3 carats, from Idaho; and a 43.4-carat sinhalite from Ceylon. 
Important additions to the meteorite collection include the follow- 
ing: Ladder Creek, Kans., from the Argonne National Laboratory ; 
Vera, Santa Fé, Argentina, from Lorenzo Orestes Giacomelli; Belle 
Plaine, Kans., from Prof. Walter Scott Huston; Idutwa, Cape 
Province, South Africa, from Dr. Edgar D. Mountain; Nuevo Laredo, 
Mexico, from C. C. Patterson; and Sikhote-Alin, Union of Soviet 
Socialist Republics, from the USSR Academy of Sciences. 
In the division of vertebrate paleontology the outstanding acces- 
sion of the year resulted from fieldwork by Peter P. Vaughn, who 
obtained excellent materials representing a number of genera of fishes, 
amphibians, and reptiles from the Clyde and Arroyo formations of 
Baylor County, Tex. A dinosaur bone, the largest known from this 
country, 6 feet 10 inches long, a humerus of the Jurassic genus 
Brachiosaurus, was donated by D. E. Jones. Two accessions of fossil 
fishes received in exchanges furnished exhibition material: one, a 
specimen of the Triassic coelacanth Diplurus newarki, together with 
its life restoration to scale, was received from Princeton University ; 
the other includes 81 specimens of fossil sharks and ray-finned fishes 
from two marine Upper Cretaceous formations in Lebanon from the 
School of Engineering, American University of Beirut, through Dr. 
Harry M. Smith. Of mammalian materials acquired, the skull of the 
Miocene whale Cetotherium megalophysum is outstanding. It was 
