SECRETARY'S REPORT 17 



Three meteorites new to the collection acquired as gifts were Bonita 

 Springs, Lee County, Fla., from E. P. Henderson ; Kaufman, Kaufman 

 County, Tex., from Mrs. Carl C. Hinrichs ; and Mayday, Eiley County, 

 Kans., from Prof. Walter S. Houston. Four meteorites, also new to 

 the collection, were received as exchanges : St. Peters, Graham County, 

 Kans. ; Kunashak, Elenovka, and Sikhote-Alinskii, from the Union of 

 Soviet Socialist Kepublics. 



Important gifts received in the division of invertebrate paleontology 

 and paleobotany are: 750 Tertiary mollusks from Virginia, North 

 Carolina, and Florida given by Shelton P. Applegate ; 500 specimens 

 of Permian brachiopods from Tasmania, from Dr. Kenneth E. Caster ; 

 93 pleosponges from South Australia, the gift of B. Flounders ; 66 type 

 and figured specimens from the Pennsylvania rocks of western Mary- 

 land from Joseph Lintz, Jr.; 4,665 specimens of crinoids and other 

 fossils representing the private collection of the late Dr. Edwin Kirk, 

 received from Mrs. Kirk ; 400 specimens of Cretaceous Foraminif era 

 from Egypt donated by Eushdi Said; and 311 Miocene mollusks from 

 Peru, given by the Johns Hopkins University. 



An important collection of 500 Tertiary brachiopods from Okinawa 

 was transferred from the U. S. Geological Survey. Among the acces- 

 sions obtained by exchange were 2,695 specimens of Foraminif era from 

 Poland ; 158 Tertiary brachiopods from New Zealand ; and 894 inverte- 

 brate fossils, mostly Mesozoic and Tertiary from Japan. 



Through the income of the Walcott bequest 5,322 specimens of 

 Devonian, Mississippian, and Permian fossils were collected by Dr. 

 G. A. Cooper, A. L. Bowsher, and J. T. Dutro, Jr., in the Glass Moun- 

 tains of Texas and the San Andreas and Sacramento Mountains of 

 New Mexico. 



The division of vertebrate paleontology received outstanding speci- 

 mens through purchase, fieldwork, and exchanges. Specimens of 

 fossil fishes acquired by purchase come from the Devonian Escuminac 

 formation on Chaleurs Bay, Canada ; and a series of late Paleozoic and 

 early Mesozoic fishes from various European localities. 



Important specimens collected by Drs. C. L. Gazin and D. H. Dunkle 

 include 100 mammalian specimens from the Eocene of Wyoming, and 

 several good specimens of ancient dogs and horses which were obtained 

 near Harrison, Nebr. Dr. Dunkle, with Professor Westoll, secured 

 over 200 fossil fish specimens from Lower and Middle Devonian locali- 

 ties in Scotland. 



Exchanges were effected that produced excellent fossil fishes and 

 other fossil vertebrates. Several types of Triassic fishes from Green- 

 land and casts of Devonian amphibians were obtained from the Danish 

 Mineralogical Museum. A large skeleton of a Cretaceous fish was 

 obtained from the Bureau of Economic Geology of the University of 



