5 4 Report of the President 



GEOLOGY AND EXTINCT INVERTEBRATES 



DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND INVERTEBRATE 

 PALEONTOLOGY 



Edmund Otis Hovey, Curator 



The Schramrnen Collection of Fossils has been obtained by 



the aid of the Jesup fund. This collection consists of about 



. . . s, 000 specimens, illustrating 1,^00 



Important Acquisitions . , . ' . 



f . , , \ species and including 300 or more 



and Acknowledgments . ,, , to ° 



types from all the sections of the 



celebrated Cretaceous beds of northwestern Germany, the 

 cream of the collecting activities for a lifetime of an expe- 

 rienced palaeontologist. As a gift from Mr. J. P. Morgan, 

 there has been received the Howell Collection of Meteorites, 

 consisting of slices, fragments and entire masses representing 

 fifty-four falls and finds, the chief of which are the Ainsworth 

 and Williamstown irons, which are new to our collection, and 

 a series of fifteen bolides of the Modoc aerolite, which gives 

 us the best representation of that fall in any Museum, also a 

 484 gram entire mass of the rare Cowra iron. Through the 

 generosity of Mr. Arthur Curtiss James, there has been 



secured a 310 pound entire mass of the new 

 New 



Ysleta siderite from near Ysleta, Texas, and a 

 JY1 eteontes 



13 pound aerolite from Culbertson, Nebraska. 



In addition to the foregoing we have secured, partly by 

 exchange and partly by purchase, representative specimens 

 of twenty-five falls, twenty-three of which were new to us. 

 Among these special mention may be made of an 8,800 gram 

 entire section of the new Mt. Edith siderite; 8,279 grams 

 comprising many hundreds of bolides of the Holbrook, Ari- 

 zona, stone shower; an 811 gram slice of the Big Skookum, 

 a siderite which was found at a depth of 65 feet below the 

 surface in the Glacial gravels near the Yukon River, Alaska, 

 and is therefore supposed to be of Glacial age; and a 4,500 

 gram mass of the Imilac siderolite from Atacama, Bolivia, 

 South America. 



