SECRETARY’S REPORT 19 
Smithsonian Caribbean Expedition; 178 lots, 1,225 specimens, of 
marine, fresh-water, and land mollusks from Chile, a gift of Dr. 
Walter Riese; and 279 lots, 521 specimens, of marine mollusks from 
Mozambique, purchased through the Frances Lea Chamberlain fund. 
The division of marine invertebrates received 7,685 specimens col- 
lected by the Bredin-Smithsonian Caribbean Expedition. Dr. R. E. 
Coker donated over 38,400 crustaceans, largely copepods, and Dr. T. E. 
Bowman presented his collection of 7,154 miscellaneous invertebrates. 
Type material was included in the following gifts: 897 copepod crusta- 
ceans from Dr. Arthur G. Humes; 8 hermit crabs, including 3 para- 
types of three species from Anthony J. Provenzano; and 3 paratypes 
of a species of an ostracod crustacean from Dr. Eugene W. Kozloff. 
One small accession, a gift from R. P. Higgins, of the holotype and 
two paratypes of a species of /chinodera added the first representa- 
tives of this little-known phylum of the Animal Kingdom to the na- 
tional collections. 
Ciwil history—Several gifts enhanced the furniture collection in 
the division of cultural history. A Louis [TV commode with marble 
top, labeled with the maker’s name, “M. Cresson,” was given by Mr. 
and Mrs. William W. Wickes, and a painted Tyrolean wardrobe on 
frame was presented by the estate of Dr. Elisabeth Lotte Franzos. 
Mrs. H. B. Blackmar gave a Connecticut cherry “highboy,” an Em- 
pire sofa, and several chairs; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rothschild donated 
an American secretary-bookcase, a chest of drawers, and a card table, 
all Jate 18th century; and Mr. and Mrs. Edmund C. Monell presented 
several examples of Chinese lacquered furniture. 
Three outstanding acquisitions of architectural importance were 
made this year. An entire room and numerous fragments were ob- 
tained from the Gothic Revival-style Harral-Wheeler house in Bridge- 
port, Conn., designed by Andrew Jackson Davis about 1848. The 
material was given by the city of Bridgeport upon dismantling. A 
wide variety of cast-iron architectural fragments from office buildings 
and store fronts of the now-demolished old mercantile section of St. 
Louis was transferred by the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial 
of the National Park Service. An entire loghouse, built in Wilming- 
ton, Del., in the German tradition in the late 18th century, was given 
by the Board of Trustees and Building Commission of the Henry C. 
Conrad School Department of Wilmington. Other gifts include a 
pair of 18th-century wine coolers used in the Winter Palace of St. 
Petersburg and a silver tea and coffee service originally owned by 
Czar Alexander I from Col. William E. Shipp, an American Empire- 
style silver tea and coffee service from Mrs. Mary A. Swanton, and a 
Pennsylvanian stove plate, dated 1784, from the Union Fork 
& Hoe Co. 
