SECRETARY’S REPORT 7 
and a specimen of the Kimble County, Tex., meteorite was added as 
an exchange. 
Several outstanding specimens were purchased through the Can- 
field fund as additions to the Canfield collection. Among these are 
sylvanite, Colorado; chrysocolla and quartz, Arizona; scheelite, 
Korea; apophyllite and amblygonite, Brazil. 
Received in exchange are nine meteorites new to the collection: 
Vengerovo, Krymka, Orlovka, Chebankol, Nikolskoe, Petropavlovsk, 
and Hressk from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Richland, 
Navarro County, Tex., and Fayetteville, Washington County, Ark. 
Significant among new material received in the division of inverte- 
brate paleontology and paleobotany are: 10 specimens of rare Missis- 
sippian goniatites from Chris E. A. Alter; 103 of Lower Cretaceous 
Foraminifera from Trinidad, B.W.I., presented by Dr. Hans M. 
Bolli; approximately 10,000 of invertebrate fossils from Silurian 
formations on the Island of Gotland, from Dr. A. J. Boucot; about 
100 of Tertiary echinoids and other Cuban fossils from the Cuba 
California Oil Co., Havana, through P. B. McGrath; 2 type speci- 
mens of Ordovician starfish from Dr. Howard R. Cramer; 2 type 
specimens of Cretaceous crabs from North Dakota given by Dr. F. D. 
Holland, Jr.; 2,000 Pliocene mollusks from St. Petersburg, Fla., from 
Charles Locklin; and the type specimen of an enormous spiriferoid 
brachiopod, Dimegelasma, from the Mississippian of Nevada from 
Dr. Joseph Lintz, Jr. 
Funds from the income of the Walcott bequest permitted the pur- 
chase from Mrs. Raymond R. Hibbard of 300 rhomboporoid Bryozoa 
from the Middle Devonian Hamilton group of New York State and 
38 Pliocene brachiopods from Sicily, from Guiseppe Bonafede. 
The crinoid collection of Harrell L. Strimple, Bartlesville, Okla., 
was purchased under the Springer fund. This yielded about 21,000 
specimens and represents more than 20 years of collecting by Mr. 
Strimple, who has made a specialty of Upper Paleozoic crinoids. 
Notable among the exchanges are 306 Paleozoic and Mesozoic in- 
vertebrate fossils, from the University of Bristol, through Dr. W. F. 
Whittard. 
The significant accession for the year in the division of vertebrate 
paleontology came as a gift through the income of the Walcott fund 
bequest, which permitted Dr. C. L. Gazin, curator, and Franklin 
Pearce, exhibits specialist, to collect 330 specimens from Middle 
Kocene beds of southwestern Wyoming. These include skull and 
jaws of the primate Wotharctus tenebrosus and skeletons of the 4-toed 
horse Orohippus, the primitive tapir Helaletes, skulls of assorted 
rodents, and the large titanothere Palaeosyops. Another gift from 
the Walcott fund consists of portions of four tritylodont (mammal- 
