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from the Naval Medical Research Institute; and 600 marine and land 
shells of the Solomon Islands from the Naval Medical School. Mem- 
bers of the staff obtained about 1,200 mollusks in Arnhem Land and 
some 1,500 in the region of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. 
Botany.—As exchanges, the National Herbarium received 2,382 
plants, comprising a collection made in Fiji by Dr. A. C. Smith, from 
the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; 5,854 plants of Colom- 
bia from the Facultad de Agronomfa, Universidad Nacional, Medellin; 
and 2,157 Chinese plants from the National Szechwan University. 
The Division of Rubber Plant Investigations, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, transferred 865 plants from eastern Colombia. 
The Oficina de Estudios Especiales, Mexico City, presented 394 
Mexican grasses. <A noteworthy gift of 295 ferns of Micronesia came 
to the Herbarium from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and 
Dr. Guanar Degelius, University of Uppsala, presented 602 lichens 
from various localities. 
Geology.—Gifts and exchanges contributed to the growth of the 
mineral collections. More than 20 kinds of minerals hitherto unrepre- 
sented in the collections were received. Forty exceptionally good 
examples of rare secondary uranium minerals from Katanga, Belgian 
Congo, as well as other unusual minerals were added to the Roebling 
collection. A fine collection of rare copper sulfates from Chuquicam- 
ata, Chile, was presented by the Chile Exploration Co. Included 
among the additions to the Canfield collection were a gem-quality 
golden beryl crystal weighing over 1,800 grams from Brazil and an 
unusually large zircon crystal from Australia. The Chamberlain 
bequest provided funds for the purchase of a 42-carat brazilianite 
gemstone, the largest as yet found in Brazil. An 8,750-gram stony 
meteorite, which fell at Girgenti, Italy, was received as a gift from Dr. 
Stuart H. Perry, and other meteorites were acquired either as gifts or 
in exchange. 
Several large collections of invertebrate fossils were presented to the 
Museum, three of the larger lots being 7,500 Middle Ordovician fossils, 
mostly bryozoans, from O. C. Cole, Kenyon, Minn.; 2,150 Pennsyl- 
vanian fossils from Robert Stark, Grapevine, Tex.; and 10,000 fossil 
mollusks from A. L. Bowsher. Types and paratypes of Upper 
Cretaceous trilobites, Tertiary mollusks, Pennsylvanian goniatites, 
Ordovician invertebrates, and Cretaceous Foraminifera were included 
in other accessions. Through funds provided by the Walcott bequest, 
the Museum acquired 40,000 invertebrate fossils from the Devonian, 
Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian deposits in west Texas, New 
Mexico, and Arizona collected by Associate Curator A. L. Bowsher 
and William Allen; 25,000 Paleozoic fossils from Texas and Oklahoma 
collected by Curator G. A. Cooper and Associate Curator A. R. 
