34 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
valuable and overlooked European type specimens were found there, 
in addition to specimens that will subsequently be described as new 
species. Accompanied by Henry B. Roberts, museum aide, he made a 
field trip to Alabama and Florida, April 6-16, 1959. Collecting was 
particularly productive in the Ocala area. 
Dr. C. Lewis Gazin, curator of vertebrate paleontology, visited 
Princeton University and the American Museum of Natural History 
in New York between November 16 and 23, 1958, to study their collec- 
tions of lower Eocene primates and to make comparisons between 
lower Eocene Knight materials and various Eocene collections and 
type materials at those institutions. In June 1959 he made a further 
visit to these same institutions and also to Yale University, Amherst 
College, and Harvard University to study lower Eocene and Paleocene 
insectivores, primates, condylarths, creodonts, and related groups. 
Dr. David H. Dunkle, associate curator of vertebrate paleon- 
tology, spent September 24-30, 1958, at the University of Kansas, 
studying their excellently curated collections of fossil fishes. In par- 
ticular, he made anatomical observations upon an extensive series of 
syllaemid fishes. In May 1959 he visited the site of the new airport 
construction at Chantilly, Va., where he examined and collected some 
Triassic bones reported by a member of the U.S. Geological Survey 
staff. The bones have been tentatively identified as pertaining to a 
phytosaur, an extinct reptile quite crocodilian in appearance, dis- 
tantly related to the dinosaurs. This specimen is believed to be the 
first such animal in the national collections from the Virginia 
Triassic. 
Dr. Peter P. Vaughn, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology, 
made a trip to the University of Michigan and the Chicago Natural 
History Museum between September 1 and 14, 1958, to study Permian 
vertebrates in those important collections. Between October 6 and 13, 
1958, he undertook a reconnaissance study in the Permian Cutler for- 
mation of southwestern Colorado. The information gained on this 
trip will be incorporated into a report on the fossil fauna of the re- 
gion which he is preparing in collaboration with staff members of 
the Geological Survey. 
The Director of the Museum of History and Technology, Frank A. 
Taylor, spent 2 days in September 1958 near Essex, N.Y., where he 
visited the site of a 1776 gunboat. 
Dr. Robert P. Multhauf, head curator of science and technology, 
made several extensive field trips during the year for the purpose of 
examining new exhibits and inspecting or acquiring important ap- 
paratus to illustrate the development of the physical sciences. He 
visited many institutions and individuals in the San Francisco area, 
in the vicinity of New York, and in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Fred- 
