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sent in exchange 578 specimens collected by Prof. S. Hatusima, and 
Dr. J. T. Conover, University of Texas, presented his personal col- 
lection of ferns of Okinawa, numbering 668 specimens. 
Other important exchanges include: 2,675 Cuban plants, mostly 
from the now historic collections of Brother Leén and Brother Cle- 
mente, received from the Colegio de la Salle, Havana; 2,697 specimens 
from Arctic Alaska, received from Stanford University; 1,132 from 
Canada and Alaska from the Botany and Plant Pathology Labora- 
tory, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada; 300 from the 
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; 1,157 from the Univer- 
sity of Michigan; 912, mostly bryophytes of Europe and Africa, from 
the Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Uppsala; 421 from 
the collections of Dr. Bassett, Maguire and his associates in the “Gua- 
yana Highlands” of Venezuela, received from the New York Botanical 
Garden; and 574 plants of New Guinea, received from the Common- 
wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, 
Australia. 
Two noteworthy lots were acquired by purchase: 631 plants from 
the Transvaal, Africa, from the collection of Dr. H. J. Schlieben; and 
281 Colombian plants of the A. E. Lawrance collection. 
Geology—Among the fine and rare minerals received in the divi- 
sion of mineralogy and petrology are native silver, Honduras, from 
the New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Co.; amethyst, Korea, 
from John B. Jago; and pyrolusite, Ghana, from Marcel D. Acrouet. 
Newly described mineral species received as gifts include ajoite, Ari- 
zona, from Miss Mary Mrose, and santafeite, Grants, N. Mex., from 
the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 
Outstanding minerals obtained through exchange are: A very large 
scheelite crystal from Arizona; a fine helvite crystal from Sweden; a 
crystal of columbite from Virginia; an exceptionally large ilvaite 
crystal from Idaho; wulfenite from Arizona; and aragonite from 
California. 
Noteworthy additions to the gem collection were purchased through 
the Chamberlain fund for the Isaac Lea collection. These include 
a garnet from Idaho weighing 25.7 carats; a figure of the Chinese 
god of longevity carved in tigereye; a nephrite jade vase; and a fine 
series of small Montana sapphires of various colors. <A large and 
ornate jade was received as a gift from Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather 
Post May. 
Outstanding additions to the Roebling collection by purchase and 
exchange include these items: Native gold, Washington; azurite and 
cerussite, Australia; becquerelite, kasolite, soddyite and schoepite, 
Belgian Congo; spodumene, Brazil; huebnerite, Colorado; magnesite 
and strontianite, Austria; wulfenite, Arizona; uraninite, Colorado; 
