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holm, Sweden ; 232 specimens obtained in Asia Minor by E. K. Balls 

 from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland; 621 plants 

 collected in East Africa by H. J. Schlieben from the Missouri Botan- 

 ical Garden, and 1,353 specimens of plants of Hong Kong, California, 

 and Mexico from the University of Michigan. 



Extensive collections of plants of Santa Catarina, comprising 2,479 

 specimens, were received from the Herbario "Barbosa Rodrigues," 

 Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil, with a request for identifications. The 

 Los Angeles County Museum sent, for study and report by herbarium 

 specialists, 239 specimens from the collections made by E. Yale Daw- 

 son on the Machris Brazilian Expedition. 



There were transferred from the U. S. Geological Survey, Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, 2,142 specimens collected by Dr. F. R. Fosberg 

 in the Marshall Islands, and from the Agricultural Research Service, 

 Department of Agriculture, 870 specimens collected by F. J. Hermann 

 in Canada and northwestern United States. 



Geology. — Outstanding among the gifts of minerals is an unusual 

 scapolite from Itrongahy, Madagascar, from John B. Jago, and an 

 exceptional barite from Sterling, Colo., given by Arch Oboler. Some 

 of the newly described minerals presented are : cardosonite, Spain, by 

 Dr. I. Asensio Amor; kingite, Australia, from the Commonwealth 

 Scientific and Industrial Research Organization; ferroselite, Mon- 

 trose County, Colo., from Howard Bowers; heidornite, Germany, 

 from Prof. Dr. W. V. Engelhardt ; hibonite, Madagascar, from John 

 B. Jago; tertschite, Turkey, from Dr. Heinz Meixner; vayrynenite, 

 Finland, from Mary Mrose; and b0ggildite, Greenland, from Hans 

 Pauly. 



Several outstanding additions were made to the gem collection by 

 exchange, including an exceptionally fine 18.3-carat canary-yellow 

 diamond from South Africa, a 51.9-carat yellow sapphire from 

 Burma, and a 68.85-carat brilliant-cut sphalerite from Utah. A 13.50- 

 carat andalusite from Brazil and an 11.80-carat star spinel from 

 Ceylon showing four separate 6 -rayed stars were purchased through 

 the Chamberlain Fund for the Isaac Lea collection. 



Of the 131 specimens added to the Roebling collection by purchase, 

 the outstanding items are : schoepite and soddyite from Shinkolobwe 

 in the Belgian Congo, and hambergite from San Diego County, Calif. 

 Newly described species added to the Roebling collection are : coffinite 

 from Utah ; kettnerite from Czechoslovakia ; hawleyite from the 

 Yukon in Canada ; and isokite from Northern Rhodesia. 



Significant additions to the Canfield collection include two 6-inch 

 crystals of enargite from Peru; a 6%-ounce gold nugget from the 

 Yukon, Alaska, mined in 1896 ; several fine groups of showy wulf enite 

 crystals from Arizona; and two exceptionally fine crystals of blue 

 and yellow sapphire from Burma. 



