8 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
51,000,000. Some of the outstanding items received included: In 
anthropology, casts of the newly discovered Neanderthal skeleton 
from Iraq, a selection of ethnological objects from Palau and others 
from the Orient and Ethiopia, and a large series of artifacts deriv- 
ing from excavations of the River Basin Surveys; in zoology, a collec- 
tion of mammals from Panama, birds from Ghana, Rhodesia, and 
Yukon Territory, a cast of the recently discovered living coelacanth, 
the Carl J. Drake collection of over 100,000 Hemiptera, the Tippmann 
collection of nearly 98,000 wood-boring beetles, the Buys collection 
of over 12,000 leafhoppers, the Osburn collection of about 3,500 
Bryozoa, and a large lot of mollusks collected on the Smithsonian- 
Bredin Pacific Expedition; in botany, a collection of nearly 11,000 
lichens from eastern and southern United States and 15,000 phan- 
erogams from Brazil; in geology, 10 new meteorites and many rare 
and fine minerals and gems, 21,000 fossil crinoids, and 330 specimens 
of middle Eocene vertebrates from southeastern Wyoming; in armed 
forces history, several rare firearms and a group of naval ordnance 
materials recovered from a 1595 wreck off Bermuda; in science and 
technology, a foot-power milking machine, 1,400 important wood 
samples in the form of walking sticks, severa] interesting electronic 
items, an 1844 steam pump, and the “transparent woman” exhibited 
in the new Halli of Health; in arts and manufactures, a model of the 
Hargreave spinning jenny and ceramic and glass items from the 
Aaron Straus collection; and in civil history, a valuable collection 
of Lincoln memorabilia, the inaugural dress of Dolley Madison, fur- 
nishings and fittings of the StohIman Confectionery Shop of George- 
town, D.C. (dating from about 1900), and 5,801,500 United States 
obsolete revenue stamps transferred from the Internal Revenue 
Service. 
Members of the staff conducted fieldwork in Iraq, Japan and Oki- 
nawa, Africa, Panama, Europe, and many parts of the United States. 
Under the exhibits-modernization program three new halls were 
opened to the public during the year—the Hall of Health, the Hall 
of North American Indians and Eskimos, and the Hall of Military 
History. 
Bureau of American Hthnology.—Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., 
was made Director of the Bureau on January 1, 1958, filling the posi- 
tion made vacant by the retirement of Dr. M. W. Stirling. The 
staff members continued their research and publication activities: 
Dr. Roberts continued as Director of the River Basin Surveys, Dr. 
Collins continued his Eskimo and Arctic studies, Dr. Sturtevant 
carried on ethnologic fieldwork in South Carolina, New York, and 
Florida, and Mr. Miller renewed his excavations at Russell Cave, 
Alabama. 
