REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. yal 
Secretary and Dr. E. O. Ulrich, the lower Paleozoic section of this 
area was worked out in detail, and the representation of its fossils 
in the National Museum is the best of the Upper Cambrian or St. 
Croixan period extant. Other Cambrian material prepared and 
studied during the year was the Millward collection from China, 
the trilobites of the southern Appalachians, several collections from 
Idaho and Missouri, and the abundant material from the Burgess 
shale and other formations of British Columbia, obtained by the 
Secretary during the summer of 1918. These collections are in all 
cases quite extensive, the last mentioned consisting of 4,000 pounds 
of small, carefully selected specimens. | 
Work on the reserve collections of Paleozoic fossils in general pro- 
ceeded as follows: About 100 standard drawers, containing approx!- 
mately one-half of the Cambrian brachiopod types, were labeled, 
completing this task. AJl type specimens received during the year 
were catalogued and appropriately marked. About 200 drawers of 
specimens were furnished with locality tags, and approximately 
2,000 additional drawers were overhauled preparatory to the same 
treatment. Thirty boxes were removed from storage and their con- 
tents examined and classified. All card catalogues were brought 
down to date. This amount of work was only made possible through 
the assistance of members of the Geclogical Survey, and especially of 
Dr. Ulrich. As a further aid, the services of a preparator were fur- 
nished for one year by the State geologists of Missouri and Wiscon- 
sin, in return for reports on the stratigraphy of those States, to be 
prepared by Dr. Ulrich, assisted by the curator. 
The curator spent some time in the preparation of illustrations 
from Museum specimens for the monograph on Paleozoic starfishes, 
by Prof. Charles Schuchert, and he also selected and had figured about 
250 specimens of Paleozoic Ostracoda, to be described in a contem- 
plated monograph of these fossil crustaceans. Mr. Frank Springer, 
associate in paleontology, continued work on the classification and 
arrangement of the fossil] echinoderms. He likewise identified the 
yarious collections of crinoids and blastoids obtained by him during 
the year and prepared several slabs of crinoids for exhibition. The 
Mesozoic fossils received were placed in museum shape by Dr. T. W. 
Stanton and Mr. T. E. Williard, and, with the exception of 25 
boxes representing the Hyatt collection, all the Mesozoic material 
remaining in storage was withdrawn. The reception of 20 new steel 
cases relieved the very troublesome congestion which had _ pre- 
vailed, but at the same time it necessitated the entire rearrangement 
of the Tertiary collections in charge of Dr. W. H. Dall. With the 
assistance of Dr. C. W. Cooke, of the Geological Survey, this gen- 
eral arrangement was completed and a large quantity of unimpor- 
tant and duplicate material was eliminated. An index card cata- 
