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Geology. — Important accessions in mineralogy were made possible 

 by several Smithsonian funds. Through the Canfield fund were pur- 

 chased minerals from Japan, Sardinia, Kumania, Greece, Austria, 

 California, Arkansas, Arizona, and Montana; through the Koebling 

 fund, seven American diamonds; and through the Chamberlain 

 fund, four cut gem stones. In all, 790 specimens pertaining to min- 

 eralogy and petrology were received. Seventy meteorite specimens, 

 many purchased by the Koebling Fund, representing 62 falls new 

 to the collection, were added during the year, the largest number since 

 the acquisition of the Shepard collection in 1915. 



In the field of vertebrate paleontology, the collections benefited es- 

 pecially by the field expedition of C. W. Gilmore, and by material 

 presented by the United States Texas Centennial Commission. In all, 

 69 fossil vertebrates were added, including the partial skeleton of a 

 very large sauropod dinosaur of the family Titanosauridae, the first 

 to be found in North America. 



Chiefly through the efforts of members of the staff, about 60,000 

 specimens were added to the collections in stratigraphic paleontology, 

 the most extensive and valuable accession of the year in this field 

 being an unparalleled collection of Devonian invertebrates made by 

 Dr. G. Arthur Cooper and Preston Cloud in the Lower Peninsula of 

 Michigan. Others came from the Chazyan rocks of northeastern New 

 York and Quebec. Rare brachiopods were obtained from Canada and 

 Nevada, and Devonian corals and crinoids from Michigan. Transfers 

 from the United States Geological Survey included collections in 

 Ozarkian, Canadian, and Chazyan brachiopods, numbering more 

 than 22,000 specimens. 



Arts and industries. — Models of the following airplanes were 

 added to the aeronautical collections : The Vickers Vimy plane that 

 made the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in 1919; the Sikorsky 

 S-40, the first of the clipper planes on airways over Florida, the Wesl 

 Indies, and South America ; the Wilf ord gyro ; the low-wing tractor 

 monoplane Mohawk made for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh; and sev- 

 eral historic airmail planes, including the Queen Bleriot (1911), the 

 Curtiss modified "R" (1916), and the Northrop airplane that held 

 the 1934 record for transcontinental mail transport. The first cable 

 car to operate in Seattle, Wash. (1889), was presented to the Museum 

 by the City of Seattle. Several interesting original builders' models 

 of watercraft also were received. Many miscellaneous objects per- 

 taining to communication, metrology, refrigeration, photography, 

 and tools and crafts continued to come in as gifts and loans, wel- 

 come additions to these sections, and nearly 1,500 specimens pertain- 

 ing to textiles, organic chemistry, wood technology, and medicine 

 were received during the year. To the graphic arts display were 



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