SECRETARY’S REPORT 15 
collected by Capts. Daniel and Edward Harrison of Ewell, Md., and 
was presented by the Ewell Junior High School. 
Among the important gifts received in the division of invertebrate 
paleontology and paleobotany are 7,345 specimens of Carboniferous 
plants collected by Dr. Harvey Bassler, received from the Maryland 
Department of Geology, Mines, and Water Resources, Johns Hopkins 
University ; 23 type specimens of Miocene mollusks from the Chesa- 
peake Bay area from Dr. John Oleksyshyn, Boston University; 144 
slides of Recent Foraminifera and Ostracoda from the Antarctic 
from Rear Adm. Charles W. Thomas; 63 specimens of Oligomiocene 
ostracods from the Brasso formation of Trinidad from Dr. W. A. van 
den Bold; 200 Mesozoic invertebrate fossils from Israel from Dr. J. 
Wahrman; and 263 foraminiferal concentrates and well cuttings from 
Italian Somalia from the Sinclair Oil and Gas Co. 
Through funds provided by the Walcott bequest 438 invertebrate 
fossils, including over 400 goniatites from Oklahoma, were acquired 
by the Museum. A grant from the National Science Foundation 
permitted Associate Curator Porter M. Kier to collect 1,490 echinoids 
and other invertebrate fossils in Belgium, France, Holland, and 
Switzerland. 
Among the important exchanges received are 750 specimens of as- 
sorted invertebrate fossils from the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Great 
Britain from Sgt. Philip Cambridge; 61 blocks of Permian lime- 
stone from West Texas from Harvard University through Dr. H. B. 
Whittington ; and one specimen of the very rare brachiopod /’nantios- 
phen from the Devonian of Germany donated by Dr. Wolfgang 
Struve, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. 
Zoology.—The largest accession and the largest single collection to 
be received in the division of mammals in several years includes more 
than 1,600 specimens from Panama collected by C. O. Handley, Jr., 
and Bernard Feinstein in cooperation with the Gorgas Memorial 
Laboratory. More than a hundred mammals, including a specimen 
of the rare suni antelope, were collected in East Africa and presented 
by Judge Russell E. Train. Antarctic explorations connected with 
the International Geophysical Year, under the auspices of the Na- 
tional Academy of Sciences, brought a specimen of the rare Ross seal. 
Individual specimens of unusual interest are the skin of a snow leopard 
collected in the Himalayas by Maj. Gen. M. Hayaud Din and pre- 
sented by the Embassy of Pakistan, and the unique type specimens 
of a new race of the large spiny rat Haplomys gymnurus collected 
by Dr. A. Wetmore on the tiny island of Escudo de Veraguas, 
Panama. 
An important accession to the bird collection consisted of 572 bird- 
skins amassed in Panama by Dr. A. Wetmore. Another large acces- 
