82 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 
bassador from Argentina, was received a representative series of 
Argentina ores and minerals. 
Important additions were made to the borate collections from 
California by Assistant Curator Foshag. Other contributions re- 
ceived through the same source include specimens of rich silver 
ore from the California Rand Silver Co., Randsburg, Calif.; of cerar- 
gyrite from the Calico District, gift of J. R. Lane, of Yermo, Calif. ; 
and an uncommonly large and pure example of cinnabar contributed 
by the New Almaden Mining Co. 
Among the radium-bearing materials received are carnotite ore 
from the Long Park, Colo., properties of the Radium Luminous 
Materials Corporation, furnished by the Radium Information Serv- 
ice, New York City; euxenite ore, sent at the request of F. L. Hess 
by the Orser-Kraft Feldspar Co. (Ltd.), of Perth, Ontario; torber- 
nite from White Signal, Grant County, N. Mex., gift of the Radium 
Treatment & Sanatorium Co., Silver City, N. Mex.; and approxi- 
mately a kilogram of uraninite from Joachimstahl, Bohemia, ac- 
quired by exchange from Ward’s Natural Science Establishment. 
Among miscellaneous gifts may be mentioned two specimens of 
gold ore from the Mother Lode, Calif., and one of the White Pine 
County, Nev., scheelite, received from W. J. Loring, San Francisco, 
Calif.; examples of crude tale of unusually fine quality from Death 
Valley, sent by the Pacific Minerals & Chemical Co., Glendale, Calif. ; 
bauxite from British Guiana, donated by the Demerara Bauxite 
Co., Philadelphia; a specimen of a sandstone used as a pulp 
stone in grinding wood for paper making, contributed by the Inter- 
national Paper Co., New York City; and a sand-rock used for 
various industrial purposes, by the National Silica Co., Oregon, Ill. 
An exceptionally large example of filamentous basalt, Pele’s hair, 
from Kilauea Crater, Hawaiian Islands, was presented by Prof. T. A. 
Jaggar through Dr. H. S. Washington, and four specimens of an 
unusual form of lava from the eruption of a volcano in San Salvador 
in 1917, together with photographs of the region, were received from 
Bartholomew McIntire, San Francisco, through the Department of 
State. 
But four additions to the meteorite collection were recorded dur- 
ing the year. These comprised two examples of the Forsyth County, 
N. C., iron, and one of the Chinautla, Guatemala, by exchange with 
Ward’s Natural Science Establishment; a fragment of the Troup, 
Tex., stone, deposited by the University of Texas; and a piece weigh- 
ing 75 pounds cut from a 475-pound mass of iron found in Owens 
Valley, Calif., in 1913, by Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, of New York City. 
The extent of the mineral collection was materially increased. A 
large number of new or rare species, including fine examples of 
