The United States National Museum Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30, 1955 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Unirep Srates Nationat Museum, Unver Direction OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C., October 15, 1955. Sirs: I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the present condition of the United States National Museum and upon the work accomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1955. Very respectfully, Remineron KeEiwoee, Director, U.S. National Museum. Dr. Leonarp CARMICHAEL, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. II June 30, 1955 Scientific Staff Director: Remington Kellogg J. E. Anglim, exhibits specialist; T. G. Baker, Don H. Berkebile, R. O. Hower, Benjamin Lawless, W. T. Marinetti, Edward W. Normandin, Jr., M. M. Pearson, George Stuart, exhibits workers Department of Anthropology: Frank M. Setzler, head curator A. J. Andrews, exhibits preparator ARCHEOLOGY: Waldo R. Wedel, curator | PHysicaL ANTHROPOLOGY: ‘T. Dale Clifford Evans, Jr., associate curator Stewart, curator G. S. Metcalf, museum aide M. T. Newman, associate curator Erunotocy: H. W. Kreiger, curator J. C. Ewers, associate curator C. M. Watkins, associate curator R. A. Elder, Jr., assistant curator Department of Zoology: Waldo L. Schmitt, head curator W. L. Brown, chief exhibits preparator ; C. R. Aschemeier, W. M. Perrygo, HE. G. Laybourne, C. 8. East, J. D. Biggs, exhibits preparators; Mrs. Aime M. Awl, scientific illustrator MAMMAtLS: Insects: J. F. Gates Clarke, curator D. H. Johnson, acting curator O. L. Cartwright, associate curator H. W. Setzer, associate curator W. D. Field, associate curator Charles O. Handley, Jr., associate Grace HE. Glance, associate curator curator Sophy Parfin, junior entomologist J. W. Paradiso, museum aide MARINE INVERTEBRATES: I, A. Chace, Birps: Herbert Friedmann, curator Jr., curator H. G. Deignan, associate curator Frederick M. Bayer, associate cu- G. M. Bond, museum aide rator REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS: T. E. Bowman, associate curator Doris M. Cochran, associate curator Mrs. L. W. Peterson, museum aide FisHEes: Leonard P. Schultz, curator | Mottusks: Harald A. Rehder, curator EH. A. Lachner, associate curator Joseph P. BH. Morrison, associate cu- Robert H. Kanazawa, museum aide rator W. J. Byas, museum aide Department of Botany: Jason R. Swallen, head curator PHANEROGAMS: A. C. Smith, curator GRASSES : Lyman B. Smith, associate curator Ernest R. Sohns, associate curator BH. C. Leonard, associate curator CRYPTOGAMS: C. V. Morton, acting cu- BE. H. Walker, associate curator rator Velva H. Rudd, associate curator Paul S. Conger, associate curator FERNS: C. V. Morton, curator iil U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Department of Geology: W. F. Foshag, head curator J. H. Benn, museum geologist; L. B. Isham, scientific illustrator MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY: W. F.| VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY: C. L. Gazin, Foshag, acting curator E. P. Henderson, associate curator G. S. Switzer, associate curator ¥. E. Holden, physical science aide curator D. H. Dunkle, associate curator F. L. Pearce, exhibits worker G. D. Guadagni, exhibits worker F. QO. Griffith, m1, exhibits worker INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEO- BOTANY: Gustav A. Cooper, curator A. R. Loeblich, Jr., associate curator David Nicol, associate curator R. J. Main, Jr., museum aide Vv. M. Gabbert, museum aide Department of Engineering and Industries: Frank A. Taylor, head curator ENGINEERING: R. P. Multhauf, curator; in charge of Sections of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, and Phys- ical Sciences and Measurements, and Tools K. M. Perry, associate curator, Sec- tions of Electricity and Marine Transportation S. H. Oliver, associate curator, Sec- tions of Land Transportation and Horology William E. Bridges, museum aide MEDICINE AND PuBLIC HEALTH: George B. Griffenhagen, associate curator Alvin E. Goins, museum aide CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIES: W. N. Watkins, curator; in charge of Section of Wood Technology Edward C. Kendall, associate curator, Sections of Manufactures and Agri- cultural Industries Grace L. Rogers, assistant curator, Section of Textiles BH. A. Avery, museum aide GRAPHIC ARTS: J. Kainen, curator A. J. Wedderburn, Jr., associate cu- rator; Section of Photography J. Harry Phillips, Jr., museum aide Department of History: Mendel L. Peterson, acting head curator MILITARY AND NAVAL HISTORY: Mendel L. Peterson, curator J. Russell Sirlouis, assistant curator Craddock R. Goins, Jr., junior his- torian NUMISMATIOCS: S. M. Mosher, associate curator CIVIL HIstorY : Margaret W. Brown, associate cura- tor F. E. Klapthor, museum aide PHILATELY: Franklin R. Bruns, Jr., associate cu- rator Honorary Scientific Staff Smithsonian fellows, collaborators, associates, custodians of collections, and honorary curators Anthropology Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood, Anthro-| Betty J. Meggers, Archeology pology Neil M. Judd, Anthropology W. W. Taylor, Jr., Anthropology W. J. Tobin, Physical Anthropology Zoology Paul Bartsch, Mollusks A. G. Boéving, Zoology L. L. Buchanan, Coleoptera M. A. Carriker, Insects R. S. Clark, Zoology Robert A. Cushman, Hymenoptera Max M. Ellis, Marine Invertebrates D. C. Graham, Biology Charles T. Greene, Diptera A. Brazier Howell, Mammals W. L. Jellison, Insects W. M. Mann, Hymenoptera W. B. Marshall, Zoology Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., Mammals J. Percy Moore, Marine Invertebrates Cc. F. W. Muesebeck, Insects Theodore S. Palmer, Zoology Benjamin Schwartz, Helminthology Mrs. Harriet Richardson Searle, Marine Invertebrates C. R. Shoemaker, Zoology R. HE. Snodgrass, Insects Alexander Wetmore, Birds Mrs. Mildred Stratton Wilson, Copepod Crustacea Botany Agnes Chase, Grasses BH. P. Killip, Phanerogams F. A. McClure, Grasses John A. Stevenson, Fungi Geology R. 8. Bassler, Paleontology Roland W. Brown, Paleobotany Preston Cloud, Invertebrate Paleon- tology Frank L. Hess, Mineralogy and Pe- trology J. Brookes Knight, Invertebrate Pale- ontology Helen N. Loeblich, Invertebrate Paleon- tology S. H. Perry, Mineralogy J. B. Reeside, Jr., Invertebrate Palecn- tology W. T. Schaller, Mineralogy Engineering and Industries F. L. Lewton, Crafts and Industries Annual Report of the Director United States National Museum Contents Page LENDR ODU CLIO Ne es esi eh SE OU ois Sets tose NTL tay Sele) Nee Dial els ces Solve! eleller sean ue 1 JESSE PG eee te eat hay ree tnees: coat nes cota venir inant) oro oa AALS 2 ACCESSIONS ... ge ea rome ial Ney ae CL SR tans agile Se aea hen, aan eleer rly 9 CARE OF Conmemone! Ar toda ae ia le lsaline SRS ln Rainy romp ariel A hal bee Alla 18 INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH. ........ 2s se © «© «© ws » « 26 AVAEHEOPOLO Gynt, we Mons euen Wouter ire isk Sle) toe octal tol le ey iyee Va Vous! lie leveio dts 26 PHOONG RF ae Ca aa AT TR RE ee Ne aor are aan ee ARR taT eNO tae OES 29 ES OUATIV Ae Rusty ecahicnee amelie MONEE pil mm LEAN tire les Mth NS es Heh wb 33 Geology. .... Alte op Atcaoe eR ere EOL MCRAE CN DSR REL TEN ts 37 Engineering and Nerdetricgs Splitter tate Sl feet a ane UME ae Re a a Areas 4] PAISCORYM ere My ante eat ero Toho tet ah new has! i Sul on Cslbeicie dbep te SRAM a is 44 PUBLICATIONS ... SP chi ens Brag i il lriaachn Wen ad Cawlit 45 DONORS TO THE NICE ON An om meranae TR Oecd AI eo ec ea ALPE TE NI 54 aS ah res m Heomnch a4 mai | cee Oy aon et Introduction On June 8, 1955, during the first session of the 84th Congress, the House of Representatives on the recommendation of the Committee on Public Works passed a bill (H. R. 6410) authorizing the construc- tion of a building for a Museum of History and Technology for the Smithsonian Institution at a cost not to exceed $36,000,000, including the preparation of plans and specifications, and all other work inci- dental thereto. Following a favorable report by the Committee on Public Works of the Senate of the United States, the same bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent on June 17, 1955. The President of the United States on June 28, 1955, approved the Act of Congress (Public Law 106) which authorizes and directs the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan and construct this museum building. In this building will be housed the collections now displayed in the Arts and Industries building of the United States National Museum. Funds Allotted From the funds appropriated by Congress to carry on the opera- tions of the Smithsonian Institution and its bureaus during the fiscal year 1955, the sum of $1,136,016 was allotted to the United States National Museum for the preservation, increase, and study of the national collections of anthropological, zoological, botanical, and geological collections, as well as materials illustrative of engineering, industry, graphic arts and history (this amount includes sums ex- pended for the program of exhibits modernization). Exhibits The program of modernizing exhibits, initiated during the pre- ceding year, was continued in 1955 by a Congressional allotment of $360,000. Contracts were awarded and work commenced on the North American mammal and the bird halls and construction was started on the cultural history (the colonial tradition in America) | and the power machinery halls. Anthropology On the evening of June 2, 1955, President William M. Milliken of the American Association of Museums and Secretary Leonard Car- michael of the Smithsonian Institution formally opened to the public the newly modernized American Indian hall in a ceremony scheduled as part of the program of the 50th anniversary meeting of the Asso- ciation. The ethnographic displays in this hall range geographi- cally from Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America, through Latin America, to southwestern United States and Cali- fornia. The life-size groups in the displays portray various aspects of the ways of life of these historic Indian cultures and are a legacy from the past, having been designed by the talented artist and former head curator of anthropology, Dr. William H. Holmes. Some were exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, in 1893. Five miniature dioramas supplement these life-size family groups, and portray (1) the Indians who met Columbus; (2) life in a Yosemite Indian village in the fall of the year, when acorns are being collected ; (3) a sacred ceremony in the antelope kiva of the Hopi Indians; (4) terrace farming among the Inca; and (5) a camp scene among the Yahgan Indians, the southernmost people in the world. Wall cases illustrate the basic economy of each culture in terms of food, clothing, shelter, and handicrafts. A selection of the 53 displays that comprise this hall are illustrated on the pages that follow. These displays were the product of close cooperation between Associate Curator of Ethnology John C. Ewers, who planned the hall and suggested the case layouts, and the group of artists who designed and installed the exhibits under the creative direction of Exhibits Specialist John E. Anglim. Working with Mr. Anglim were T. G. Baker, R. O. Hower, W. T. Marinetti, E. H. Nor- mandin, Jr., and M. M. Pearson. Three of the dioramas were fash- ioned by Exhibits Preparator A. Joseph Andrews and two others 9 Wild seeds, principally acorns, were an important food resource which the Hupa women collected and processed. Men hunted and fished. CALIFORNIA Pomo women of northwestern California were noted for making some of the world’s most finely woven baskets. Clamshell beads and dentalia, another shell, took the place of money in trade among the tribes of California Indians. Carefully painted dolls help the children recog- nize and name the hun- dreds of supernatural spirits, or kachinas, re- vered by their tribe. Around a sand-painting altar in an underground ceremonial chamber, or kiva, members of the Snake and Antelope Societies perform traditional Hopi PUEBLO religious rites. (This is a diorama.) Many changes in style have occurred during the Pueblo’s more than 1500 years of pottery- making. These examples are from the late 19th century. EEA Corn THE GIFT OF THE GODS BASIC FOOD OF THE PUEBLOS- Corn, the most important food of the Pueblo tribes, was cultivated with very simple wooden tools— the hoe, rake, and planting stick. j2UNI PUEBLO POTTERY MAKING |_MARY OF THE puro ae SERVING BOWLS. _ SHE MADE THEM HERSELF aN was FRO OF T ) BEAUTY ano utiury, Shes _A Zuni woman, ‘a brush of yucca ‘paints designs on her |pottery with great skill. | In their famous snake dance, societies ask the rattlesnake spirits to aid them in ob- | taining rain for their crops. members of the religious INTERIOR OF -— HOP! APARTMENT In the Hopi 1-room efficiency apartment the corn-grinding bins and corner fire- place are built in. The family eats and sleeps on the floor. APACHE AND NAVAHO : oe ose peer Navaho craftsmen scarcely 100 years ago learned from the Mexicans how to work metal. Today they make beautiful silver ornaments for sale and for their own use. The Cocopa gained a liveli- hood in the deserts of Mexico along the lower Col- orado River by growing crops in the irrigated river bottoms, hunting small game, and fishing. In their preference for buckskin cloth- ing, the Apache resembled neighbor- ing tribes of the Great Plains. The Apache traditionally wove coiled baskets and also painted and beaded articles of buckskin. Their crafts were like those of the South- western and Plains Indians. In the Mexican-border region the desert-dwelling Pima were skilled potters, basketmakers, and weavers of cotton blankets and belts. The cotton they grew in irrigated fields. DESERT DWELLERS IN THE SOUTHPESTERN DESERT, WHERE TEMPERATURES OF MORE THAN \D0 WEAE COMMON, LITTLE CLOTHING WAS NECOrD. ; WORE OMY ASHIRT MEK A LON CLOTH ; FACE AND BOOY PAINTING WERE = coMMON The pelican-skin garment of the Seri from Baja California and the cere- monial body painting of the Mohave from the Lower Colorado illustrate the clothing habits of the desert dwellers. HIGH CULTURES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA SOME FOLK COSTUMES OF INDIANS IN GUATEMALA ‘Sena PRACT e CONE GANTT % descendants of the Maya, In highland Guatemala, where live the folk costumes of each village are both colorful and distinctive. More than 2 miles above sea level, in the neighborhood of Lake Titicaca, the ingenious and sturdy Aymara raise potatoes, the staple food of the Andean highlands. Basketry fans from modern Mexico illustrate variation in local styles. In design, these fans, which are popular gifts, are remarkably similar to those of fans appearing on ancient Maya paint- ings. CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN RAIN FOREST The warlike Jivaro are Selected objects and photographic color transparencies clever hunters with the interpret the basic economy, traditional manufactures, blow gun, which they and social life of the Carib and Arawak tribes in the use solely to kill game. jungles and savannas of the Guianas. They are skilled crafts- men in feathers, weav- ing, and pottery. A shrunken head, war trophy of the Jivaro, is contrasted with the outline of a life-sized head. A diorama recreates in realistic miniature the moment when the Lucayan Indians of the Bahamas in 1492 discovered Columbus’ ships on the horizon. PD IBN SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA “INDIANS OF THE LAND OF FIRE TERRA DEL FUEGO MANY FIRES BURNED BY NATIVES OF DAMP REGIONE. The tribes of Tierra del Fuego are the southernmost people of the world. Contrasted here are the customs of the Yahgan canoemen, who wore few clothes and sought their food by the sea, and the Ona footmen, who hunted the swift-footed Ilama-like guanaco, their principal source of food, clothing, and shelter. The horse, introduced by the Spanish, enabled the bola-using Tehuelche to become more effective nomadic hunters on the grasslands of Axvrgentina. EXHIBITS 3 were prepared in the Museum Laboratory of the National Park Service from Mr. Ewers’ specifications. After many months of planning by Associate Curator C. Malcolm Watkins and Chief Exhibits Preparator John E. Anglim, and with the cooperation of Public Buildings Service, construction was begun in Hall 26 on exhibits depicting colonial life in North America. In a series of 50 case exhibits and 6 period rooms household furnishings as well as useful and decorative arts will be displayed to illustrate domestic customs from the earliest settlements along the Atlantic Coast to about 1830. Two of the latter will be ground floor rooms of the complete 2-story 17th-century house from Everett, Mass., the gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood of Marlboro, Mass. An instructive exhibit, “Folk Pottery of Early New England,” was installed in an alcove of the ground floor foyer of the Natural History Building by Mr. Watkins and the exhibits preparators. The redware and stoneware there displayed were selected from the gift collection of Mrs. Lura Woodside Watkins. The drama of the buffalo-hunting Plains Indian, the warfare he waged in defense of his way of life, and the coming of the frontier— these historical incidents provided themes for special exhibitions in which the U. S. National Museum participated. Paintings and drawings of Indian subjects made by such early 19th century Ameri- can artists as George Catlin, John Mix Stanley, Charles Bird King, H. Stieffel, and Gustavus Sohon, were lent to various museums and galleries throughout the United States. Owing to its unique character and outstanding interest a figurine of wood, basketry, and cloth from the central coast of Peru, dated about A. D. 1100, was installed in a special case at the south end of the hall, “Highlights of Latin American Archeology.” During June 1955, a display of casts illustrating skeletal age changes in young American males was installed among the semipublic exhibits maintained in the third-floor corridors of the Natural History Build- ing. A temporary exhibit, “The Sickle Cell Disease in Man,” de- veloped by Associate Curator Marshall T. Newman in collaboration with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, was shown at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences on April 25, 1955. Zoology During the year the exhibits staff of the department of zoology completed the installation of the puma, Alaska wolf, pronghorn antelope, and Virginia deer in the recently constructed habitat units. For the bison group in this North American mammal hall, the Fish and Wildlife Service provided three animals from the National Bison Range. Chief Exhibits Preparator W. L. Brown made a trip to 359492—55——__2 4 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Amidon and Bismarck, N. Dak., and to the Bison Range at Moiese, Mont., for habitat photographs, background accessories, and related materials. In the bird hall work was completed on all construction. Also completed was one habitat group, depicting the bird life of the Ant- arctic, in which five emperor and three Adelie penguins, a skua, a kelp gull, and a snow petrel are shown. The paintings on the back- grounds of display units for the hoatzin, Carolina parakeet, bower bird, honey-guide, and palm chat were essentially finished at the close of the fiscal year. The paintings of flying birds for the ceiling of this hall were completed and the installation of some exhibits was commenced. Notable among a special series of small exhibits of insects placed on display in the foyer of the Natural History Building was an exhibit of Morpho butterflies showing sexual dimorphism and the contrast between physical and chemical coloration. Geology Planning for the medernization of the geological exhibits has been resumed. ‘The general plans and layouts of the halls for minerals, invertebrate fossils, and the lower vertebrate fossils have been deter- mined. Associate Curator David H. Dunkle and Exhibits Worker G. Donald Guadagni were in the field during the last five weeks of the fiscal year searching the Cretaceous chalk beds of Kansas for fossil fish needed to complete the exhibition series. Curator G. A. Cooper of the division of invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany visited the University of Michigan and the Chicago Museum of Natural History for consultations regarding installation of proposed restora- tions of fossil life in the hall of fossil invertebrates. Preparation of the giant ground sloth material from Panama has been completed and two skeletons have been assembled for mounting and installation in the exhibition hall. Engineering and Industries The detailed planning of the power machinery hall was completed during the year, the plans and specifications were reviewed, and the preparation of exhibits for installation was in progress. The ex- hibits in this hall illustrate the development of power machinery by means of original machines, models, and graphic devices. Several new models of pioneer power machines were constructed by Donald H. Berkebile, modelmaker, in the exhibits workshop. The actual construction of this hall will start shortly after the close of this fiscal year. Both the hall of horse-drawn and locomotive transportation, which was painted under the buildings renovation program, and the EXHIBITS 5 boat hall have been greatly improved by the installation of fluorescent lighting. In order to improve the display of instruments in the me- trology section, all but the more significant have been put in storage. New exhibits on the development of the balance and the early instru- ments of astronomy and surveying are now complete. Tn the hall of textiles eight new exhibits were installed and four were renovated. A noteworthy new one traces asbestos from early superstitious use to modern times, and another, “American Cotton Before Columbus,” features important early Peruvian fabrics. An exhibit on hand spinning, one on machine spinning, and four on the development of the loom through fly-shuttle weaving were completed. Tn the section of manufactures an addition was made to the Fessen- den exhibit of plant and insect specimens preserved in plastic. The tire exhibit and opposite cases were repainted to harmonize with the recently painted south hall, and the appearance of the south hall gal- lery was further improved by a rearrangement of cases, the repainting of two wall cases, and the renovation of the sealskin exhibit. A new exhibit of patent models of harrows, arranged against a large photo- mural background of a harrow in use, was installed. The planter exhibit was moved to a lighted case, enlarged, and relabeled. An outline of the plans for the hall of health was circulated to pro- fessionally interested individuals and institutions for comment. The theme of this hall will be man’s knowledge of his body then and now, a comparison of old and present ideas and knowledge of the human body. Exhibits designed and constructed in the division of medicine and public health during the past year include an introductory exhibit, pointing out the highlights of the gallery of medical history, and presenting a brief historical orientation to medical science; “A Tele- gram From Your Heart,” showing the historical evolution of the electrocardiograph, and featuring Dr. Frank Wilson’s original electro- cardiograph; an 1875 dental office containing the significant office equipment of Dr. G. V. Black, pioneer in dental education; “Hearing Aids, from Cupped Hand to Transistor,” tracing the development of the hearing aid; “Mortar and Pestle, Symbol of Pharmacy,” showing the chronological development of the mortar and pestle from the stone mortar to the Wedgwood mortar; “The Pharmaceutical Balance,” tracing the evolution of the balances used in pharmacy; “Percolation,” describing the historical devolpment of this important pharmaceutical process; “Compressed Tablets vs. Handmade Pills,” tracing the evolu- tion of the pill machine and the tablet press; “Milestones in Cardi- ology,” a portrait exhibit of pioneers of cardiology; “Sculpture Por- traits of Medical Greats,” featuring ten plaques by sculptress Doris Appel; “Suppository Mold: Past and Present,” an exhibit showing 6 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 the evolution of the suppository mold from paper cone to compression mold; an exhibit featuring the William R. Warner original pill- coating pan and pitcher, used for sugar-coating pills; an exhibit featuring the original Scherer gelatin capsulating machine; “Pre- scriptions Around the World,” a collection of medical prescriptions from the far corners of the globe; and an exhibit of apothecary show globes of the late 19th century. Exhibits prepared by donors, with the guidance of the associate curator of the division, and installed in the division of medicine and public health during the past year, include “The Dodrill-GMR Mechanical Heart,” presented by General Motors Research Labora- tories; “Allergies,” featuring an animated step-by-step demonstration of typical allergic reactions, presented by Ciba Pharmaceutical Prod- ucts, Inc.; “Binding up a Wound,” an exhibit presented by Johnson and Johnson to show the evolution of surgical dressings and featuring a Peruvian skull, some 1,500 years old, on which ancient cotton gauze is held in place by several strands of strong llama-hair cord; “Take Away That Bitter Taste,” tracing the evolution of flavoring medicines, presented by Dodge and Olcott, Inc.; “Your Height and Weight,” contributed by the American Medical Association; “The Story of the Ampoule,” presented by Parke, Davis Company; and “The Evolution of Medical Illustrating,” contrasting early anatomical illustrations and present day medical illustrations, lent by artist Paul Peck of Sudler and Hennessey, Inc. In addition Eli Lilly completely refur- bished their exhibit, “Insulin and Diabetes.” In cooperation with the American Institute of the History of Phar- macy, the division of medicine and public health sponsored a pictorial exhibit tracing the evolution of the drug store at the 75th anniversary meeting of the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association, in Madison, Wise. Jacob Kainen, curator of the division of graphic arts, and J. Harry Phillips, Jr., museum aide, began a complete revision of the exhibits dealing with the techniques of picture printing. The photogravure and rotogravure sections have been completed and the section on the halftone relief process is partially completed. Lighting has been installed in the hall for the first time. In the section of photography material was gathered for exhibits relating to the history of stereophotography and to early motion pic- ture devices. AGidom on a 1869-1893 (left to right): Mary Harrison McKee (daughter of Benjamin Harrison), Caroline Scott Harrison, Mary Arthur McElroy (sister of Chester Arthur), Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Lucy Webb Hayes, Julia Dent Grant. ‘ 2 ° r = — 1893-1921 (left to right): Edith Bolling Wilson, Ellen Axson Wilson, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Ida Saxton McKinley, Frances Folsom Cleveland. 1921-1933 (left to right): Lou Henry Hoover, Florence Kling Harding, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. 1933- (left to right): Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman. the accompanying tabulation. the past year. Acecessions During the Fiscal Year 1955 During the year 7,596,646 specimens were added to the national collections and distributed among the six departments as shown on This total includes several million minute fossils known as Foraminifera collected in Europe during The other accessions for the most part were received as gifts from individuals or as transfers from Government depart- ments and agencies, and the most important of these are summarized below. A full list of the donors is to be found on page 54. SPECIMENS IN THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS JUNE 30, 1955 DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY . Archeology . Ethnology Ceramics . } P Musical inetnaments ji Period art and textiles . Physical Anthropology DEPARTMENT OF BorTany . Phanerogams . Grasses . Ferns Cryptogams . DEPARTMENT OF TSNeER NTIS AND ihe DUSTRIES i Crafts and THdestnionl! Engineering . Graphic? Artsy jar. .< Medicine and Public Heath DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY . Mineralogy and Petrology. . Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleo- botany . Vertebrate Baleoutalary DEPARTMENT OF HistToRY . Civil History . Military History . Naval History . Numismatics Philately . 576, 763 187, 749 10, 048 2, 453 8, 123 37, 244 1, 750, 249 356, 640 210, 627 357, 926 66, 676 33, 432 46, 108 22, 566 265, 879 11, 994, 837 40, 305 38, 332 29, 537 4, 687 63, 507 717, 324 822, 380 2, 675, 442 168, 782 12, 301, 021 853, 387 10 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. ........... 26, 043, 633 Mammals) \., Seaver. fen” were, 272, 108 BRAS is Ga. yao hes OH. 484, 869 Reptilesynts o.oo eke ae ee 143, 746 SHISIN@S ess LOH ES SE pea deat lee eet 1, 557, 614 Tnsectsie lee ee ee 12, 537, 523 Marine Invertebrates. ...... 1, 313, 392 Mollusks it a2se Re ieee soe i ete es 9, 503, 063 Helminths. epee ones ee ea re 46, 408 Hehmodermsyioe sacach cea ee 184, 910 ToraL MusrtumM COLLECTIONS. ...... 42, 864, 645 Anthropology A unique gift to the division of archeology was the figure of a human, made from wood, cloth and basketry, recovered from a grave along the central coast of Peri and dating from about A. D. 1100. This unusual object was presented by Mrs. Virginia Morris Pollak as a gift from the Arther Morris collection. A series of large archeo- logical collections taken from excavation projects in various parts of the Missouri Basin has been transferred to the Museum by the River Basin Surveys. sity of Tokyo: Hthnology of Formosa. J ¥ INVESTIGATION Mrs. Hilda Raj, Tamil ethnologist: Comparative kinship terminologies. W. G. Fagg, Africanist, British Mu- seum: West African wood sculptures. Kamal el Malakh, Cairo, Egypt, dis- eoverer of the solar boat of Cheops. Dr. Zakaria Goneim, Cairo, Egypt, dis- coverer of a Third Dynasty pyramid. Dr. Carlos Gonzilez N., Director, Insti- stitute of Botanical and Zoological Investigations, Santo Domingo Uni- versity. Marius Barbeau, National Museum, Ot- tawa, Canada: pictographie art; arts and crafts of the Pacific Northwest Coast Indians. AND RESEARCH 29 Ricardo HE. Alegria, Director, Museo de la Universidad, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: Conferred on the archeology and ethnology of the Taino Indians. Thor Heyerdahl: Comparison of his archeological specimens from the Galapagos Islands with our type col- lections from the Viri Valley, Pert. Antonio Krapovickas, Ministry of Agri- eulture of Argentina: Study of the archeological peanut specimens from Perti and Chile. Drs. EH. E. Johns, Kingston, Ontario, and David J. E. Mitchell, Peterborough, Ontario: Dental occlusion in Indian and Hskimo skulls. Zoology Mammals.—Two major studies were brought to completion during the year and notable progress was made cn other long-term projects. Dr. David H. Johnson, acting curator, continued his studies of eastern Asiatic mammals and, at the request of the Commission on Hemor- rhagic Fever, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and with the assistance of Lt. J. Knox Jones, Jr., U. S. A., he undertook a review of Korean mammals based mainly on specimens collected by Army field teams between 1952 and 1954. Associate Curator Henry W. Setzer, submitted for publication his final report on mammals from the Anglo-EKgyptian Sudan. This thorough study of the fauna of the Sudan increased the number of known genera of land mammals of that area, other than bats, from 30 to 50; 29 species and subspecies were found to be new. Consider- able progress on a similar report on Kgyptian mammals, also collected by Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, was made by Dr. Setzer. Associate Curator Charles O. Handley, Jr., completed a revision of the American plecotine bats, a contribution providing the first clear indication of the relationship of recent New World species to the Old World and fossil forms. He also completed a report on the mammals of the Dismal Swamp for the Virginia Academy of Sciences, made further progress on a systematic study of the mammals of the Kala- hari Desert of South-West Africa, the mammals of the high Arctic, the marsupials of Central America, and the bats of the genus Dasyp- terus. During the year Dr. Handley completed the requirements for a doctorate in zoology from the University of Michigan and in June was granted the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Birds.—Curator Herbert Friedmann completed a paper on parasitic reproduction in African cuckoos, based on information assembled since the publication in 1948 of his book on this subject, and completed 30 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 2 report dealing with a recently discovered drawing of the extinct Mauritian dodo and with the evidence his study brought to light con- erning the early observers and illustrators of this bird. His investi- gation of the digestion of beeswax by honey-g ides, pursued under a special grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, revealed that the splitting of the wax is due to microorganisms flourishing in the intes- tines of the birds and not to any avian enzymes. It is now known that there is a synergistic relation between the two wax-splitting micro- organisms discovered. Dr. Friedmann also worked on the second volume of the “Birds of Mexico” and on the fifth edition of “A. O. U. Check List of North American Birds,” and revised part of the manu- script on the birds of Gaboon, a study made jointly with Dr. A. L. Rand of the Chicago Natural History Museum. Associate Curator Horbort G Deignan brought the manuscript of his critical catalog of the type specimens of birds in the Museum up to date and continued his studies on the birds of Thailand, revising various groups of species where new data or additional specimens made such action necessary. So far he has completed the accounts of I] the non-passerine groups. Germen * Bond muse-m side. revised the ‘dentifications and the semenelot re fer a forthcoming ‘taxonomic publication on the birds of Maryland) Dr. We*more, research associate. who collected over 1,000 specimens during his 3 months’ field trip to Panama this year, continued his work on the fifth edition of the “A. O. U. Check List of North American Birds” and also studied the Panamanian and Colom- bian collections of birds he has amassed during the past 15 years. Reptiles and Amphibians.—The catalog of type material in the Museum division of reptiles and amphibians, being prepared by Dr. Doris M. Cochran, associate curator, nears completion; it will contain about 2,000 names of types, references to the original de- scriptions, present synonyms, and a list of cotypes and paratypes in the national collections. Work on the monographic account of the frogs of western Brazil awaits the arrival of additional material from the University of Sao Paulo. Dr. Cochran’s report on the frogs of southeastern Brazil was published and distributed on June 22, 1955. Fishes.—Drs. Leonard P. Schultz, curator, and Ernest A. Lachner, associate curator, continued work on volume 2 of “The Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands.” At the end of the year this volume, which now includes 32 families, 110 genera, and 265 species, was 92 percent complete. Two papers, “The Golden Tetra, a New Species of Hemigrammus from British Guiana” and “Know Your Australian Rainbowfishes,” were published by Dr. Schultz during the year. Three others were completed and submitted for publication: “Re- vision of the Parrotfishes, Family Scaridae, of the World”; “Hand- book of Tropical Aquarium Fishes” (with H. A. Axelrod); and “A INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 31 new Pinecone Fish, Monocentris reedi, from Chile, a New Family Record for the Eastern Pacific.” About 90 percent completed is a world-wide revision of the frogfishes, family Antennariidae. Dr. Lachner published one paper, “Inquilinism and a New Record for Paramia bipunctata, a Cardinalfish from the Red Sea,” and com- pleted two others: “Populations of the Berycoid Fish Family Poly- mixiidae” and “a Revision of the Shark-Suckers, Family Echene- idae.” During September 1954 Dr. Lachner, assisted by Frank Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh, collected several thousand fishes and a number of crayfish in promotion of his projected study of the fresh-water fishes of the mountain streams of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. He was also granted a John Simon Guggen- heim Memorial Fellowship for a 4-months’ study of certain tropical marine fishes in European museums; and was elected vice-president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Robert H. Kanazawa, biological aide, has expanded to include re- lated genera his world revision of the eel genus Conger, which he has had under way for the past two years. Imsects.—Curator J. F. Gates Clarke completed a revision of the Neotropical moths of the genus Orthocomotis and continued with his study of the Meyrick types of Microlepidoptera in the British Mu- seum of Natural History, of which the first two volumes of the even- tual six appears during the year. Also in progress are his studies of the Microlepidoptera of the Juan Fernandez Islands (Chile) and of Micronesia, and his revision of the American moths of the family Phaloniidae. Dr. Clarke in May 1955 started an extended field trip to the Pacific Northwest Associate Curator O. L. Cartwright completed an extensive revision of the scarab beetles of the genus Psammodius and made further progress with his studies of the beetles of the genus Ataenius and of the genus Onthophagus, suspected of being the intermediate hosts of parasites of domestic animals. Also in progress are reports on the Scarabaeidae of Micronesia and of Bimini. Associate Curator William D. Field continued his studies of the Neotropical Lycaenidae (Theclinae) (hair streaks) and the genera Constachila, Phulia, Piercolias, and Baltica (Pieridae). Miss Grace Glance pursued her study of the Isotomidae. Marine Inveriebrates.—Curator Fenner A. Chace, Jr., prepared a report on the decapod and stomatopod crustaceans of Los Roques and the neighboring islands of Venezuela, based on collections received from the Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, in Caracas. He also compiled a list of certain crustaceans identified from collections made by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service vessel Oregon in the Gulf of Mexico from 1950 through 1954. His study of the porcellanid crabs of West Africa, in progress since 1948, is nearing completion. 359492554 3, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Associate Curator Frederick M. Bayer completed five manuscripts, chiefly on the octocorallians, including a chapter on the Octocorallia for the “Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology.” In June 1955 he joined an expedition to the Palau Islands sponsored jointly by the George Vanderbilt Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. Mr. Bayer will be responsible for the invertebrate investigations of the expedition during a 4-months’ stay on Koror. Associate Curator Thomas E. Bowman completed two manuscripts since joining the staff in August 1954, one on a new copepod from the northeastern Pacific and the other a description of a new species of the isopod genus Chiridotea. Dr. Bowman is currently engaged in an extensive study of the calanoid copepods collected off the southeastern United States by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife vessel Theodore N. Gull. Clarence R. Shoemaker, associate in zoology, completed 5 manu- scripts during his 81st year, and is now occupied with a revision of the amphipods of the family Haustoriidae. Dr. J. Percy Moore, collaborator, who is still actively working on the morphology and systematics of leeches at the age of 86, during the year edited with Marvin C. Meyer a translation from the Russian of an extensive treatise on leeches by W. D. Selensky. Dr. Moore is currently working on the anatomy and systematics of some leeches from the Museum and the University of Natal, South Africa, as well as on a large collection of leeches, mostly of the genus Helobddella, from Lake Titicaca. Mrs. Mildred S$. Wilson, collaborator in copepod Crustacea, has completed two manuscripts on new species of copepods of the genus Diaptomus, from Louisiana, and is preparing a taxonomic report on the copepods of Lake Pontchartrain. During the year, 23 specialists in other institutions undertook to identify material of various groups of invertebrates for the Museum. The individuals who so kindly rendered this service and the groups on which they work are: Dr. Donald P. Abbott: Tunicates. Dr. A. Weir Bell: Oligochaete worms. Dr. David Causey : Oligochaete worms. Mrs. May Belle Chitwood: Nemato- morph worms. Dr. Elisabeth Deichmann: rians. Mr. A. Goldberg: Nematomorph worms. Dr. Olga Hartman: Polychaete worms. Dr. Willard D. Hartman: Sponges. Dr. Dora P. Henry: Barnacles. Dr. Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.: Crayfishes. Dr. Libbie H. Hyman: Flatworms. . Paul L. Illg: Copepod crustaceans. Dr. Karl Lang: Tanaid crustaceans. Holothu- Dr. J. G. Mackin: Isopod crustaceans. Dr. Marvin C. Meyer: Leeches. Dr. Milton A. Miller: Isopod ecrusta- ceans. Dr. Edith E. Mortensen: Protozoans, Dr. Raymond C. Osburn: Bryozoans. Dr. Marian H. Pettibone: Polychaete worms. Dr. Edward G. Reinhard: Rhizocepha- lan crustaceans. Mr. Bryce C. Walton: Leeches. Dr. John W. Wells: Hydrocorals. Dr. Austin B. Williams: Decapod crus- taceans. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 33 Mollusks.—Curator Harald A. Rehder made progress on his revi- sion of the superfamily Pyramidellacea for the “Treatise of Inverte- brate Paleontology.” Associate Curator J. P. E. Morrison continued his studies on the families Ellobiidae, Cyclophoridae, and Amphicyclotidae of America, and worked on the Hydrobiidae. Dr. R. Tucker Abbott, associate curator, was occupied, until his resignation in November to accept a position at the Academy of Nat- ural Sciences of Philadelphia, with researches on the Assimineidae of the western Pacific. Research by visiting investigators.—In addition to investigators from Federal agencies located in the Washington area, more than 180 professional biologists and students with an interest in systematic zoology paid one or more visits to the offices and laboratories of the department, some staying for considerable time. Among the foreign visitors and their fields of interest were the following: Dr. Kamal Wassif, Ibrahim University, ; Dr. A. Villalobos F., Universidad Na- Department of Zoology, Abbassiah cional A. de México: Crayfishes. (Cairo), Hgypt: Mammals of Hgypt | Dr. Paulo Erichsen de Oliveira, Depart: and adjacent areas. mento Nacional da Producio Min- Kaiser Makram, Cairo, Egypt: Mam- eral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Fossil malogical techniques. mollusks of Brazil. Dr. Albert Hochbaum, Delta, Canada:| Dr. Denise Mongin, Muséum National Bird records and library. d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France: Dr. W. H. Phelps, Caracas, Venezuela : Miocene mollusks of the Hast Coast Venezuelan birds. of North America. Prof. H. Steiner, Zurich, Switzerland:| Dr. Takashi Ino, Tokai Regional Fish- Anatomy of birds. eries Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Ting-ping Koh, Taiwan Teachers Col- Japan: Abalones (Haliotidae) and lege, Formosa: Tuna fish. starfishes of the Pacific. Dr. Hubert J. Squires, Newfoundland |} Dr. 8S. Yamaguchi, Kyoto University, Fisheries Research Station ;: Decapod Japan: Helminths. crustaceans, Botany Phanerogams.—Curator A. C. Smith prepared and submitted for publication a report on his most recent Fijian explorations, and also a discussion of the significance of the phanerogam genera that have distributions terminating in Fiji. Between April 15 and June 30 he was transferred to the staff of the National Science Foundation to act as Program Director for Systematic Biology during the absence from that position of Dr. William C. Steere. Dr. Smith was elected to serve as president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. Dr. L. B. Smith, associate curator, has continued his studies toward a Flora of Colombia by the publication of a paper, “Revisio Vio- lacearum Colombiae,” in joint authorship with Dr. A. Fernandez- 34 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Pérez, of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogota. He has nearly completed a manuscript treating the more than 350 species of Colom- bian Bromeliaceae. During the year he has been seeing through press a comprehensive paper on “The Bromeliaceae of Brazil,” dis- cussing over 570 species and with 128 illustrations prepared by Dr. Robert J. Downs of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Besides its taxonomic interest, this paper provides a basis for research in bromeliad malaria, and has considerable horticultural application because of the high proportion of ornamental species of the family in Brazil. With Father Raulino Reitz, he has been studying the flora of the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and with Dr. Downs he prepared a treatment of the Rubiaceae of Santa Catarina for publication in Sellowia, the journal of the Herbario “Barbosa Rodrigues,” edited by Father Reitz. Associate Curator E. H. Waiker, in collaboration with Dr. F. R. Fosberg, completed and submitted for publication a third supple- ment to a preliminary checklist of plants in the Shenandoah National Park. He continued to progress in his studies of the genus Corylopsis (Hamamelidaceae) and in a study of the Myrsinaceae of Taiwan. The latter project follows naturally after a critical study of the Myrsinaceae of Japan (published this year) and of the Ryukyu Islands (now in press). His principal research effort has been di- rected toward the preparation of a “Flora of Okinawa and the south- ern Ryukyu Islands,” which is essentially a new edition of the “Flora of Okinawa, an enumeration of the plants of Okinawa and Sakishima archipelagos in the Ryukyu Islands,” by S. Sonohara, S. Tawada, and T. Amano (1952, edited by E. H. Walker). The current work was started in 1954 at the request of the U. S. Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands, U. S. Army, because of the unexpectedly early ex- haustion of the supply of the earlier Flora and the urgent need for a new edition. Associate Curator E. C. Leonard continued his work on part 3 and the supplement of his comprehensive study of the Acanthaceae of Colombia. Revisions were completed for 11 of the 15 genera to be treated. An annotated list of the plants growing in the Potomac Triassic Area of Virginia, to be included in a paper on the floristics of that region by H. A. Allard and Mr. Leonard, has been essentially completed. Dr. Velva E. Rudd, associate curator, completed her “Revision of the genus Vissolia,” part of a study of the subtribe Aeschynomeninae of the family Leguminosae, of which the first paper, “The American species of Aeschynomene,” is now in press as a Contribution from the U. S. National Herbarium. Two more papers are planned to complete the series. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 35 Research Associate EK. P. Kallip, continued to make valuable collec- tions of plants in Cuba and southern Florida, and during his visits to Washington prepared duplicates for distribution, thus adding sub- stantially to the material sent out in exchange by the division. Grasses.—Curator Jason R. Swallen continued his studies on the grasses of southern Brazil, and completed for publication “Notes on Honduras grasses.” His “Grasses of Guatemala,” is being published by the Chicago Natural History Museum. Associate Curator Ernest R. Schns, published a paper on fascicle morphology in Cenchrus and Pennisetum. 'Two collecting trips were made to México during the past year. The first was to the State of San Luis Potosi in September and October. Over 2,200 specimens, mostly grasses, were collected throughout the State. Special atten- tion was given to the Sierra de San Miguelito and the Sierra de Guadaleazar. Besides numerous range extensions, one very rare grass genus (Calamochloa) was found for the second time in the Sierra de Guadalcazar. This grass, represented by an inadequate specimen in the Paris Museum, was collected by the French mineralo- gist, Pierre Virlet d’Aoust, in 1881. Not only is the genus a rare endemic, but the single species is dioecious. It is being redescribed and illustrated. In March, a trip was made to Lake Miramar in the State of Chiapas in collaboration with El Centro de Investigaciones Antropdlogicas de México. Over 650 specimens were collected in the Lacandon Forest near the lake. Many of the grasses, mostly hy- grophilous forest species, were new records for the State and one species was new to México. Mrs. Agnes Chase, research associate, continued to devote her full time to editing and verifying the index to grass species prior to their being typed. Approximately 40,000 cards, or half the index, have been completed. Dr. F. A. McClure, research associate, assembled the materials for a taxonomic treatment of the bamboos of southern Brazil. Under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, he continued work on a manual for the field identification of bamboos of the genus Phyllostachys in cultivation in the United States. Under a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation, Mrs. Walter T. Swingle is collaborating with Dr. McClure in the acquisi- tion and processing of bamboo literature with special reference to the documentation and clarification of species. Ferns.—Curator C. V. Morton continued during the first four months of the current fiscal year his work in Europe as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. During this period he examined many thousands of sheets of ferns, especially 36 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL. REPORT, 1955 from tropical America, and photographed 8,111 type specimens and other authentic material. These photographs will form a valu- able tool for future taxonomic studies. Throughout the work he was given every facility and encouragement by the staffs of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, the Rijksherbarium, Leiden, the British Museum (Natural History), London, the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Geneva, the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stock- holm, the Staatsinstitut fiir allgemeine Botanik, Hamburg, the Botani- cal Museum and Herbarium, Copenhagen, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Botanisch Museum, Utrecht, and the Jardin Botanique de VEtat, Brussels. Cry ptogams.—Associate Curator Paul Conger continued with his studies of the diatom flora and ecology of Chincoteague Bay, Md. He also continued with a monographic study of the important diatom genus Grammatophora and with the accumulation of notes on ab- normalities in diatoms. : Research by visiting investigators.— During May and June, Father Raulino Reitz of the Herbario “Barbosa Rodrigues,” Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil, made intensive studies of the herbarium material and literature in the department in connection with the preparation of a flora of the State of Santa Catarina. In October, Miss Nancy Burbidge of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia, studied for three weeks on the identification of introduced grasses in Australia, especially species of Paspalum. During June, V. D. Zotov, Botany Division, Depart- ment of Scientific and Industrial Research, Christchurch, New Zea- land, examined the collections of New Zealand grasses in the her- barium, especially types, in preparing for a monograph of the family in New Zealand. Dr. Kittie F. Parker, formerly of the University of Arizona, continued her research on the western flora and in the family Compositae. Others who spent short periods at the herbarium were L. A. Garay, University of Toronto, Arland T. Hotchkiss, University of Sydney, Australia, J. M. Idrobo, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogoté, Colombia, and Antonio Krapovickas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. More than 750 persons visited the herbarium, usually seeking scientific information. The collections of the department continue to be an important source of reference material for staff members of other Government agencies, particularly the Department of Agricul- ture and the Department of the Interior. Thirteen informal loans with 2,821 specimens were made to local agencies, mostly to the Depart- ment of Agriculture. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 37 Geology Mineralogy and petrology.—Several collateral problems connected with the study of the mineralogical nature of Meso-American jade have occupied the attention of Head Curator W. F. Foshag. One of these relates to the Aztec stone chalchihuitl, and the identification of its varieties as defined by the early chroniclers. A study of a newly discovered occurrence of jadeite in Guatemala has been completed. It probably was a source of jade for some of the ancient indigenous cultures of Meso-America. A study of a new mineral species, an oxychloride of aluminum, from the fumaroles of Paricutin volcano has been completed. Dr. Foshag continued as president of the Section of Volcanology, Petrology, and Geochemistry of the American Geo- physical Union. A study of the hexahedrite type of meteorites has been undertaken by Associate Curator EK. P. Henderson to determine accurately their chemical composition and to compare their metallographic structures and their accessory minerals with a view to determining if these meteorites have a common origin. He is also studying the occurrence, composition, properties, and associations of the accessory mineral cohenite, an iron carbide, in order to learn if there is any correlation between its presence and the composition of the meteorite. Dr. S. H. Perry, associate in mineralogy, at the close of the year presented to the Museum his library of meteorite publications and the remainder of his meteorite collection. His large 9-album collection of photomicrographs of iron meteorite structures, previously presented to the Museum, will be a source of information for many years to come. A study of the origin of ore-forming solutions of the Iron Springs district, Utah, continues to occupy the efforts of Dr. George Switzer, associate curator, who is working in collaboration with Dr. J. Hoover Mackin of the U.S. Geological Survey. The results of this investiga- tion should prove useful in the exploration of these economically important iron ore deposits and others of a similar nature. An in- vestigation of the nature of the minerals composing the tests of various fossil micro-organisms, carried out in collaboration with Dr. A. J. Boucot of the U. S. Geological Survey, has been completed. Work has been begun on an investigation of two new mineral species; para- damite, a zinc arsenate from México; and galeite, a sodium fluoride- sulfate from California. Dr. Switzer prepares, annually, a review of the diamond industry, widely used by government agencies, commer- cial organizations, and others interested in the many phases of the diamond industry. He also prepares, in collaboration with Mr. R. T. Thompson of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, the Gem Stone Chapter of the Minerals Year Book. 38 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Dr. John P. Marble, associate in mineralogy, as chairman of the Committee on the Measurement of Geologic Time, of the National Re- search Council, prepared the annual summary on the advances in radiochemistry and geochronology for 1953-1954, including a compre- hensive annotated bibliography of the works published in these fields during the year. He also continued as general secretary, and chair- man of the editorial and publications committee of the American Geophysical Union, and as official delegate attended the 10th general assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics at Rome. On June 6, 1955, the Department of Geology lost, through death, the valuable services and stimulating associations of Dr. Marble, who had. served as research associate in the division of mineralogy and petrology since 1948. Invertebrate palentology and paleobotany.—Karly in the year Curator G. A. Cooper, working in collaboration with Dr. H. M. Muir- Wood of the British Museum, completed a revision of the genera of the Productacea, a large group of fossil spiny brachiopods. ‘The work includes both the taxonomy of the group, and discussions concern- ing morphological variations, paleoecology, and life habits and proc- esses. In addition, Dr. Cooper described a collection of brachiopods from Arizona, a rare occurrence in American Cretaceous rocks. Work was continued by Dr. Cooper on the description of Permian brachiopods from Oregon. ‘This fauna is related to the Russian Per- mian forms, and is new to the United States. In preparation for his study of the Permian brachiopods of the Glass Mountains of Texas, considerable time was spent in the sorting and organizing of the ma- terial obtained by the etching of the silicified forms from limestone blocks. The superb material recovered will yield much information on the anatomy of the animals, their life habits, and their ecological environment. Associate Curator Alfred R. Loeblich, Jr., and Research Associate Helen Tappan Loeblich have worked continuously on the Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology (Foraminifera), a natural classification of the Foraminifera based on phylogeny and geological occurrence, with definitive descriptions of all known genera, each description accom- panied by precisely executed drawings. About 1,500 genera of smaller Foraminifera will be included in the work. In addition, they have published a revision of some Recent foraminiferal genera. Mrs. Loe- blich has completed studies on Jurassic Foraminifera from Alaska, and has in preparation a volume on Cretaceous Foraminifera. Associate Curator David Nicol completed and published an analysis of the Arctic marine pelecypod fauna and its significance in ecological interpretation, and is continuing morphological studies of the bizarre and unusual Paleozoic genus Conocardium. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 39 Dr. J. B. Knight, research associate in paleontology, continued work on the Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology (Gastropoda), a classi- fication with definitive descriptions and illustrations of all known genera of Paleozoic gastropods. He was assisted in this by Drs. Roger Batten and Ellis Yochelson. The studies of Dr. R. §. Bassler, research associate in paleontology, on Ordovician cystids have been delayed by a serious accident suffered by him. His project is almost completed. Vertebrate paleontology.—Curator C. L. Gazin completed and sub- mitted for publication a description and taxonomic revision of the upper Eocene artiodactyls, or even-toed ungulates, of North America. These include 6 families, 18 genera, and 35 species. It isin the Hocene epoch that the origins of the artiodactyl families are to be found, and this study will help to determine the phylogenetic sequences leading to the better known Oligocene forms. Dr. Gazin also completed his description of the Paleocene mammalian fauna of the Bison Basin in Wyoming, a study that yielded 19 new species and 2 new genera. During the early summer of 1954 Dr. Gazin, accompanied by Mr. F. L. Pearce, carried on field work in the Paleocene beds of the Bison Basin of Wyoming, and the lower Eocene Knight formation of the Washakie, Great Divide, and upper Green River Basins. Dr. Gazin continued to serve as chairman of the Eocene subcom- mittee of the committee of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology preparing a new “Nomenclature and Correlation of the North Ameri- can Continental Tertiary,” a cooperative project, the results of which will be published by the Geological Society as a memoir. Associate Curator D. H. Dunkle, who has been engaged on the plan- ning of the new exhibition hall of lower vertebrate fossils, made some progress on his program of research, which includes as its major proj- ects the detailed study of the fossil fish fauna of the middle Hocene Green River shales, and the Mesozoic origins of teleostean or common fishes from holostean, or ray-finned fishes. A description of a remark- able specimen of a pleuropterygian shark preserved 3-dimensionally in a phosphate nodule from the upper Devonian Chattanooga shale of Tennessee was completed in collaboration with Dr. Stuart W. Maher of the Tennessee Geological Survey. Working in collaboration with Dr. Bobb Schaeffer he also completed a study of sharks, lung-fishes, and ray-finned fishes represented in collections from seven new oc- currences in Brazil. During the summer of 1954 Dr. Dunkle carried on a search for fossil fish and reptiles near Paris, Idaho; Cody, Wyo., and Logan and Mon- ticello, Utah. Later, with Exhibits Worker Donald Guadagni, he 40 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 explored the Cretaceous chalk beds of Kansas for fine examples of fos- sil fish and other vertebrate forms suitable for exhibition. Research by outside investigators——Among investigators other than those of government agencies, who have assisted the department of geology with the study of Museum material, and who in turn have received help from the staff and the collections, are: Dr. T. W. Amsden, The Johns Hopkins University, who is studying a collection of Silurian (St. Clair) brachiopods from Arkansas; Dr. Franco Rasetti, of the same university, who continued his studies of Cam- brian fossils; Dr. Norman D. Newell, American Museum of Natural History, who is monographing a large collection of silicified pelecy- pods from west Texas belonging to the National Museum; Dr. Harry B. Whittington, Harvard University, who is now busy with studies of family groups, other than those described in 1954, represented in the silicified residues from Strasburg, Va.; Drs. Roger Batten and Ellis Yochelson, who as graduate students of Columbia University collabo- rated with Dr. Knight on Permian gastropod studies; Dr. Francis G. Stehli, California Institute of Technology, who is studying some tere- bratuloid brachiopod collections; Dr. A. K. Miller, University of Iowa, who is studying the Museum’s large collection of Permian am- monoids from the Glass Mountains; and Dr. C. O. Dunbar, Yale Uni- versity, who is studying the fusulines (Foraminifera) from the Permian of the Glass Mountains, Tex. The following students of Foraminifera visited and studied at the Museum: Dr. Cesare Emiliani, University of Chicago; Dr. J. C. Troelsen, University of Copenhagen; Noel Brown, Jr., Cuban Gulf Oil Company, Havana, Cuba; Dr. Hans Bolli, Pointe-a-Pierre, Trin- idad, B. W. I.; Mr. Y. Nagappa, Digboi, Assam, India; Dr. Eugenie Montanaro-Gallitelli, University of Modena, Italy; Dr. Frank E. Lozo, Houston, Tex.; and Dr. L. W. LeRoy, Golden, Colo. Investigators who made use of the vertebrate paleontology collec- tions during the past year to further their research projects include: Dr. J. LeRoy Kay, Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, who made ex- tensive comparisons of his important collection of Green River Eocene mammals from Utah, with the Museum’s extensive Bridger Hocene collections from Wyoming; Gordon Edmond, of the Royal Ontario Museum, who studied and photographed a number of specimens per- tinent to his investigation of tooth succession in the reptiles; Dr. John Clark of Princeton University, who reviewed Oligocene and Miocene artiodactyl] materials and examined the Chadronian mam- mals in connection with his studies of faunal sequences in the Chadron formation. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 41 Kingineering and Industries Engineering.—A descriptive account of the history of the develop- ment of power machinery was prepared by Dr. R. P. Multhauf, asso- ciate curator, in connection with the design of the power machinery hall, for use as a guide to this hall. He is engaged in the first stage of the preparation of a catalog of the metrology collection, and he collaborated with Museum Aide Don H. Berkebile in research leading to the design and construction of models of a number of power ma- chines, plans of which no longer exist. ‘This research thus far has led to the construction of models of a steam engine of John Fitch and a boiler of Oliver Evans. Associate Curator S. H. Oliver’s manuscript, “The First Quarter- Century of Steam Locomotives in North America: Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas, with a Catalog of Locomotive Models in the U.S. National Museum,” was completed in March and submitted for publication. Kenneth M. Perry, associate curator of electricity, continued identi- fying, documenting, and describing the electrical measuring instru- ments in the Museum collections. A number of the more than 50 such devices treated during the year represented part of the large collec- tion recently presented to the Museum by the Western Electrical Instrument Corp. Crafis and industries.—Curator William N. Watkins continued his investigation of woods used in old and rare furniture in an effort to determine their origins. He assisted Colonial Williamsburg and The Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum in their quest for accu- rate determinations of wood origins, and give similar assistance to the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Williamsburg. In her search for additional unpublished information on the Schol- field wool carding machine of 1793, Assistant Curator Grace L. Rogers visited the Baker Library, Harvard University, the Rhode Island His- torical Society, and old Slater Mill, allin New England, and the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich. Original manuscripts were reviewed and old company records searched for verification of its history. Several Scholfield machines examined will be described in the article on the subject. Edward C. Kendall, associate curator, investigated the European origins of 17th- and 18th-century American plow types. Aided by a generous grant’ from Deere and Company he visited a number of historical and technical museums in western Europe. His examina- tion of these collections, particularly in Scandinavia, Holland, Ger- many, and Great Britain, brought out the fact that American plows 42 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 in use in the 18th century were distinctively different from their Kuro- pean counterparts. The information acquired will be presented in articles on the origin of American plow types, on the Hohenheim plow model collection, on the original appearance of the John Deere steel plow of 1837, and on the types of plows used on the Mount Vernon estate of George Washington. Medicine and public health.—Curator George B. Griffenhagen com- pleted his catalog of apothecary shop restorations on exhibition in the United States. The catalog, which included descriptions of 28 resto- rations from Massachusetts to California, was published by the Ameri- can Pharmaceutical Association under the title of “Karly American Pharmacies,” and was distributed to all members of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. Also completed was a study, carried on in cooperation with Dr. Waldo Wedel, curator of archeol- ogy, that commenced as an investigation into the significance of ‘Tur- lington’s Balsam bottles found in archeological sites in the Dakotas. One of the early popular patent medicines used in the colonies, Tur- lington’s Balsam of Life is an outstanding example of the beginnings of patent medicines in America. Curator Griffenhagen gave considerable attention to the history and evolution of pharmaceutical equipment such as the pill machine, mortar and pestle, pharmaceutical balance, and the drug container. Few pieces of pharmaceutical equipment have been treated in separate historical studies such as these, and the project, which will include a descriptive catalog of the pharmaceutical collections in the division of medicine and public health and an annotated bibliography, will provide a much needed reference source to aid in documenting antique pharmaceutical equipment. Other research in progress includes a history of the mechanical heart, being written with the cooperation of Calvin H. Hughes, re- search biologist at the Research Laboratories Division of General Motors Corporation, and a study of the medical equipment and sup- ples of the American Revolutionary Armies, undertaken in coopera- tion with Robert Davis of the Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Graphic aris.—Curator Jacob Kainen continued his study of the color prints of John Baptist Jackson, a work that will trace the origins of color printing in the 18th century and will emphasize Jackson’s importance as an artist and color printer. It will also pro- vide a complete descriptive catalog of his work to replace the incom- plete standard catalog published in 1856. Mr. Kainen also continued his research into the origins and develop- ment of photomechanical processes, a study intended to provide a single reference work for the diverse and complicated history of half- tone printing. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 43 Alexander J. Wedderburn, associate curator, completed a study of a hitherto unknown intermittent movement for motion picture pro- jectors invented by Thomas Armat, noted for his inventions in this field. Mr. Wedderburn interviewed members of the inventor’s family and a machinist closely associated with Armat during the period in which he made his intermittent movement devices. The study is scheduled for publication in the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He continued work on his history of the camera and served as consultant to the Navy Department in the preparation of a script for a film on the origins of the motion picture. Research by outside investigators.—In increasing numbers, outside investigators used the collections and called upon the staff for assist- ance on a wide variety of subjects, as shown by these examples. Ruth Laudlu, textile designer and weaver, Oslo, Norway, studied the textile collection, especially examples of early American designs. Margaret Stratton, Russellville, Ky., is assisting Miss Rogers in locat- ing information on a quilted counterpane received by the Museum several years ago. K. Ramesh Rao, assistant wood technologist, Forest Research In- stitute, Dehra Dun, India, investigated the cataloging system, study collection, and exhibition hall of the section of wood technology and discussed future exchanges and mutual assistance. Professor Weifang Chu, Forestry College, National Taiwan University, Formosa, pres- ently at the College of Forestry, State University of New York, completing a study of the woods of the Coniferae, examined the Museum collection of woods. Assistance was given George Bender, editor, and Robert Thom, artist, of Parke, Davis and Company, in their research associated with the History of Pharmacy in Pictures; the Armed Forces Medical Library for their “Exhibit of the Month”; Professor Harvey Young of Emory University, on the development of patent medicines in America; and Dr. Philip V. Hammond of Howard University, who presented a paper before the Plant Science Seminar on the national] materia-medica collection at the U. S. National Museum. Jay E. Gordon, of the Naval Photographic Center, and James H. Culver, of the Library of Congress, made studies of the photographic collections in connection with an official Navy film; Edmond Archer of the Corcoran School of Art was assisted in research concerning the camera obscura and its possible use by the 17th century Dutch painter Vermeer, and Col. Willard Webb, Library of Congress, was assisted in preparing material for a television show concerning the history of photography. 44 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 History Mendel L. Peterson, curator of military and naval history, con- tinued his field investigation in the Florida Straits area during the months of May and June. His work, carried on under the sponsor- ship of Mr. Edwin A. Link on board the vessel The Sea Diver, this year fell into two categories: investigation of Spanish wreck sites on Silver Bank, and retracing the possible route taken by Columbus in the Bahamas during his first voyage to America. His study in the markings and decoration of museum cannon was continued. During the year he photographed and measured cannon at Baltimore and Annapolis, Md.; Nassau, Bahamas; Grand Turk Island; Le Citadelle and Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and Havana, Cuba. Margaret W. Brown, associate curator of civil history, prepared a booklet on The First Ladies Hall which was published for the open- ing of the hall. Her illustrated description of the gown of Mrs. Harry S. Truman was published as a supplement to her “Dresses of the First Ladies of the White House.” Curator of Numismatics Stuart Mosher continued his investiga- tions of American medalists, the works of the die engraver Edward Stabler, the Hugh Miller collection of Korean charms and amulets, and the multiple thalers of Brunswick-Luneburg in the Paul A. Straub collection. Franklin R. Bruns, Jr., associate curator of philately continued his research in several fields, among which were sources of United States postage stamp design and the postal history of Liberia. Research by outside investigators.—Among the outside investiga- tors working in the Department of History were Dr. F. M. Fryxell, a Guggenheim Fellow who is preparing a history of the Dr. Frederick V. Hayden Expedition; Emerson Brooks, Department of Agriculture; Lt. Col. George Chinn, Navy Bureau of Ordnance; representatives of the Bureau of Internal Revenue who examined specimens in the col- lections bearing on questions relating to the National Fire Arms Act; representatives of the Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History; Mr. Herbert Campbell of the Remington Arms Company; Mr. Harold Peterson of the National Park Service; Con- gressman Louis C. Rabault of Michigan; representatives of the Amer- ican Legion; representatives of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Lt. Col. John H. Magruder, curator of the Museum of the Marine Corps. Publications In addition to an Annual Report, the National Museum issued 10 publications based on research in the national collections. Of these, 2 were in the Bulletin series and 8 were in the Proceedings series. The titles of these publications are listed below. At the close of the year 17 Proceedings papers and the following four Bulletins were in press: “American Moths of the Subfamily Phycitinae,” by Carl Heinrich; “The Honey-Guides,” by Herbert Friedmann; “Nearctic Wasps of the Subfamilies Pepsinae and Cero- palinae,” by Henry Townes; and “Checklist of the Coleopterous In- sects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South Amer- ica,” Part 6, by Richard E. Blackwelder. Publications by the staff, including honorary members, totaled 144. These publications, listed on pages 47 to 58, were distributed as follows: Department Publications Department Publications INTE OAT ONO PL Gt ERESH HO yee gph oe Re apegPe aes q Botamyaee= See be eet Se Peeve VACGY Oy COA area Wa ie i ha 57 Engineering and Industries_______ 9 —— Geol Osa ae ee NE 21 FASO Gell eee i rhs ee Seen 144 Publications of the United States National Museum July 1954 through June 1955 REPORTS The United States National Museum annual report for the year ended June 30, 1954. Svo,ix+i100pp. January 14, 1955. BULLETINS Bulletin 205. List of North American Recent mammals, by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., and Remington Kellogg. S8vo,xii+954pp. March 3, 1955. Bulletin 206. Frogs of southeastern Brazil, by Doris M. Cochran. S8vo, xi + 423 pp., 28 figs., front: and 34 pls. June 22, 1955. 45 A6 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FORM From VOLUME 103 OF THE PROCEEDINGS No. 3334. A supplement to W. M. Tattersall’s review of the Mysidacea of the United States National Museum, by Albert H. Banner. Pp. 575-588. July 8, 1954. No. 3335. On the anatomy and relationships of glossy cuckoos of the genera Chrysococcyx, Lampromorpha, and Chalcites, by Andrew J. Berger. Pp. 585-597, figs. 69-71. January 19, 1955. No. 3336. Supplement and corrections to J. A. Hyslop’s genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world, by Ross H. Arnett, Jr. Pp. 599-619. April 14, 1955. No. 3337. Neotropical Miridae, LXIV: New bugs of the subfamily Cylapinae (Hemiptera), by José C. M. Carvalho. Pp. 621-632, figs. 72-76, pl. 15. March 2, 1955. FRoM VOLUME 104 OF THE PROCEEDINGS No. 3338. Revision of the vittate species of the chrysomelid beetle genus Dis- onycha from the Americas south of the United States, by Doris Holmes Blake. Pp. 1-86, figs. 1-75. April 4, 1955. No. 3339. A revision of the Nearctic species of the beetle genus Meligethes (Nitidulidae), by Alan M. Easton. Pp. 87-103, figs. 76-78. February 25, 1955. No. 3340. Four new Venezuelan reduviid bugs, by J. Maldonado Capriles. Pp. 105-118, figs. 79, 80. March 28, 1955. No. 3341. Some polyclad flatworms from the West Indies and Florida, by Libbie H. Hyman. Pp. 115-150, figs. 81-89. May 2, 1955. Publications by Members of the Staff of the United States National Museum July 1954 through June 1955 Abbott, R. Tucker. New Gulf of Mexico gastropods (Terebra and Ocenebra). Nautilus, vol. 68, No. 2. pp. 37-44, pl. 2, October 1954. Bartsch, Paul. The pyramidellid mol- lusks of the Pliocene deposits of North St. Petersburg, . Florida. Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 125, No. 2, pp. 1-102, 18 pls., May 1955. Bayer, Frederick M. Anthozoa: Alcyo- naria. In Gulf of Mexico, its origin, waters, and marine life, Paul S. Galtsoff (editor). Fishery Bull. 89, Fish and Wildlife Service, pp. 279— 284, 1954. ——. New names for two genera of Octocorallia. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 44, No. 9, p. 296, 1954. Benn, James H. The mineralogy of fos- Sils. Rocks and Minerals, vol. 30, No. 1-2, pp. 3-20, pls. 1-12, January— February 1955. Boving, Adam G. Mature larvae of the beetle-family Anobiidae. Danske Biol. Medd., vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 298, illustr., 1954. Brown, Margaret W. The story of the Declaration of Independence desk and how it came to the U. S. National Museum. Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 1958, pp. 455-462, 5 pls. 1954. Dress of Mrs. Harry S. Truman, supplement to ‘‘Collection of dresses of the First Ladies of the White House,” Smithsonian Inst. Publ. 4060, 5 pp., 2 pls., 1954. The First Ladies Hall. Smith- sonian Inst. Publ. 4212, 9 pp., 8 pls., 1955. 359492—55——_5 Brown, Roland W. Composition of scientific words, a manual of meth- ods and a lexicon of materials for the practice of logotechnics, 882 pp., Sep- tember 1954. Bruns, Franklin R., Jr. Plans for co- operation among philatelic libraries. National Philatelic Museum ‘“Li- brary” Book, vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 16-17, 1955. — and Griifenhagen, George. Phar- maceutical philately. American In- stitute of History of Pharmacy, 2 pp., 1955. Carriker, M. A., Jr. Report on a collec- tion of Mallophaga, largely Mexican (Part I). Florida Ent., vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 139-146, illustr., September 1954. —. Report on a collection of Mallo- phaga, largely Mexican (Part I), con- tinued. Florida Hntom., vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 191-207, illustr., December 1954. —. Studies in Neotropical Mallo- phaga. (13)—The Menoponidae of the Neotropical Psittacidae. Rey. Brasileira Entom., vol. 2, pp. 145-178, illustr., December 1954. Notes on the occurrence and dis- tribution of certain species of Colom- bian birds. Novedades Colombianas, pp. 48-64, 1955. —. The Ischnocera of the Trogoni- dae. Studies in Neotropical Mallo- phaga (XV). Novedades Colombi- anas, pp. 87-100, June 1955. 47 48 Chace, Fenner A., Jr. Two new sub- terranean shrimps (Decapoda: Cari- dea) from Florida and the West Indies, with a revised key to the American species. Journ. Washing- ton Acad. Sci., vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 818- 324, 2 figs., 1954. —. Stomatopoda. In Guif of Mex- ico, its origin, waters, and marine life, Paul S. Galtsoff (editor). Fishery Bull. 89, Fish and Wildlife Service, pp. 449-450, 1954. Clark, Austin H. Echinoderms (other than holothurians) of the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico, its origin, waters, and marine life, Paul §. Galtsoff (editor). Fishery Bull. 89, Fish and Wildlife Service, pp. 373- 379, 1954. —. Records of Indo-Pacific echino- derms. Pacific Sci., vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 243-263, 1954. Ciarke, J. F. Gates. The correct name for a pest of cacao (Lepidoptera, Stenomidae). Proc. Entom. Soe. Washington, vol. 56, pp. 266-267, 1954. The correct name for a pest of legumes (Lepidoptera, Olethreut- idea). Proc. Entom. Soe. Washing- ton, vol. 56, pp. 8309-310, 1954. ——. Eustalodes anthivora (Gelechi- idae, Lepidoptera), a new pest of Achras sapota in the Philippines. The Philippine Agriculturist, vol. 37, pp. 450-451, pl. 1, 1954. —. Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick, vol. 1, vii+332 pp., 1 fig., 4 pls., 1955 ; and vol. 2, iii+- 531 pp., 2638 pls., 1955. Cochran, Doris M. Frogs of southeast- ern Brazil. U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 206, Xxvi+423 pp., 28 figs., front. and 34 pls., June 1955. Conger, Paul S. A new genus and species of plankton diatom from the Florida Straits. Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 122, No. 14, pp. 1-8, pls. 1-4, 1954. Present status of diatom studies in the Gulf of Mexico. Jn Gulf of U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Mexico, its origin, waters, and marine life. Fishery Bull. 89, Fish and Wild- life Service, pp. 227-232, October 1954. Cooper, G. A. New genera of Middle Paleozoic brachiopods. Journ. Pa- leont., vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 45-68, pls. 11— 14, January 1955. New brachiopods from Cuba. Journ. Paleont., vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 64— 70, pl. 15, January 1955. — and Stehli, F. G. New Genera of Permian brachiopods from West Texas. Journ. Paleont., vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 469-474, pls. 52-54, May 1955. Deignan, H. G. Review of Austin and Kuroda’s “The Birds of Japan— Their status and distribution.” Bird- Banding, vol. 25, No. 2, p. 82, April 1954. Review of Smythies’ “The Birds of Burma.” The Auk, vol. 71, p. 337, July 1954. Review of Lockley’s “Shearwa- ters” and “Puffins.” Atlantic Natu- ralist, vol. 10, No. 2, p. 102, November— December 1954. On the nomenclature of the Him- alayan goldcrests. Bull. Brit. Or- nith. Club., vol. 74, No. 9, pp. 103- 104, December 1954. —. Remarks on Picus vittatus Vieil- lot and some of its allies. The Ibis, vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 18-24, January 1955. Review of Schorger’s ‘The Pas- senger Pigeon.” Atlantic Naturalist, vol. 10, No. 5, p. 282, May—August 1955. Eastern Asiatic races of the bee- eater, Merops philippinus Linnaeus. Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club., vol. 75, No. 5, pp. 57-59, May 1955. Dunkle, David H. (See under Fries, Carl Jr.) Evans, Clifford. New archeological in- terpretations in northeastern South America. In “New Interpretations of Aboriginal American Culture His- tory,” 75th Anniversary volume, An- throp. Soc. Washington, pp. 82-94, 1955. A ceramic study of Virginia ar- cheology. With appendix “Analysis PUBLICATIONS of projectile points and large blades,” by C. G. Holland. Bull. 160, Bur. Amer. Ethnol., pp. 1-164, April 1955. — and Meggers, Betty J. Life among the Wai Wai Indians. Nat. Geogr. Mag., vol. 107, No. 3, pp. 329- 346, illustr., March 1955. Ewers, John C. The Indian trade of the upper Missouri before Lewis and Clark: an interpretation. Missouri Hist. Soe. Bull., vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 429-446, 1954. Charles Bird King, painter of Indian visitors to the Nation’s capi- tal. Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 1953, pp. 463-473, 8 pls., 1954. Chinook. (Signed article) HEn- cyclopedia Americana, 1955 ed., p. 560. ——. Chippewa. (Signed article) En- eyclopedia Americana, 1955 ed., pp. 564-565. —. Problems and procedures in mod- ernizing ethnological exhibits. Amer. Anthrop., vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 1-12, 2 pls., 2 figs., February 1955. The Bear Cult among the As- siniboin and their neighbors of the Northern Plains. Southwestern Journ. Anthrop., vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1— 14, 2 pls., 1 fig., Spring 1955. The horse in Blackfoot Indian culture, with comparative material from other western tribes. Bur. Amer. HEthnol., Bull. 159, pp. xv-+374, 17 pls., 33 figs., 1955. Foshag, W. F. (See under Switzer, George. ) Friedmann, Herbert. A revision of the classification of the honey-guides, In- dicatoridae. Ann. Mus. Congo Tervu- ren, Zool. 1 (Miscellanea Zoologica H. Schouteden), pp. 21-27, 1954. Review of Chapin’s “The birds of the Belgian Congo, Part 4.” The Auk, vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 476-477, De- cember 1954. Review of Meinertzhagen’s “The Birds of Arabia.” The Auk, vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 97-98, January 1955. Fries, Carl, Jr., Hibbard, Claude W., and Dunkle, David H. Barly Ceno- zoic vertebrates in the Red Conglom- 49 erate at Guanajuato, Mexico. Smith- sonian Mise. Coll., vol. 123, No. 7, pp. 1-25, 1 pl., 6 figs., 1955. Gazin, C. Lewis. Activities of the di- vision of vertebrate paleontology of the U. S. National Museum. Soc. Vert. Paleont. News. Bull., No. 42, pp. 9-10, 1954; No. 48, pp. 14-15, 1955, No. 44, pp. 25-26, 1955. Greene, Charles T. Larvae and pupae of the genera Microdon and Mizo- gaster (Diptera, Syrphidae). Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc., vol. 81, pp. 1-20, illustr., April 1955. Griffenhagen, George B. Early Ameri- ean pharmacies, a pictorial catalog of apothecary shop restorations which are on exhibition in the United States. Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc., 23 pp., 29 figs., 1955. ——. The prescription file and journal of the Daniel B. Smith pharmacy, 1822-23. Amer. Journ. Pharm., vol. 126, pp. 344-852, 3 figs. ——. Collector’s corner. Journ. Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc. (Practical ed.), vol. 15, pp. 638, 678, 744, 3 figs., Oc- tober—December 1954; vol. 16, pp. 46, 82, 151-153, 242, 276, January—May 1955. ——. Pharmaceutical history on view. The Meyer Druggist, vol. 75, pp. 8-9, 24, 4 figs., June 1955. (See also under Bruns, Franklin R., Jr., and Wedel, Waldo R.) Handley, Charles O., Jr. Nomenclature of some Tertiary Chiroptera. Journ. Mammalogy, vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 128 130, February 1955. A new Pleistocene bat (Corynor- hinus) from Mexico. Journ. Wash- ington Acad. Sci., vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 48-49, March 1955. A possible sight record of Brewer’s blackbird for Virginia. Raven, vol. 26, Nos. 2-3, pp. 40-42, March 1955. New bats of the genus Corynor- hinus. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 147-149, May 1955. Henderson, Edward P., and Perry, Stu- art H. A discussion of the densities of iron meteorites. Geochemica et 50 Cosmochemica Acta, vol. 6, Nos. 5-6, pp. 221-240, December 1954. Johnson, David H. (See under Miller, Gerrit S., Jr.) Judd, Neil M. The material culture of Pueblo Bonito. Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 124 (whole vol.), pp. iv-+ 398, 1954. Byron Cummings, Archeologist and explorer. Science, vol. 120, No. 8115, pp. 407-408, September 1954. Byron Cummings, 1860-1954. Amer. Anthrop., vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 871- 872, October 1954. Byron Cummings, 1860-1954. Amer. Antiq., vol. 20, No. 2, p. 154-157, October 1954. Kainen, Jacob. The evolution of the halftone screen. Raus & Mann Press, Ltd., Toronto, 17 pp., illustr., 1954. Kellogg, Remington. (See under Miller, Gerrit S., Jr.) Knight, J. B., Batten, R. L., Yochelson, E. L. Status of invertebrate paleon- tology; 1953. V. Mollusca: Gastro- poda. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 112, No. 3, 1954. Laechner, E. A. Inquilinism and a new record for Paramia bipunctata, a car- dinal fish from the Red Sea. Copeia, No. 1, pp. 58-54, 1955. Leonard, Emery C. Acanthaceae. In Flora of Trinidad and Tobago, vol. 2, pt. 5, pp. 357-379, 1954. Loeblich, A. R., Jr., and Leeblich, Helen Tappan. HEmendation of the forami- niferal genera Ammodiscus Reuss, 1862, and Involutina Terquem, 1862. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 806-3810, 1954. New names for two foraminiferal homonyms. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 44, No. 12, p. 384, 1954. A revision of some glanduline Nodosariidae (Foraminifera). Smithsonian Mise. Coll., vol. 126, No. 3, pp. 1-9, 1 pl., 1955. Marble, John Putnam. Report of the Committee on the Measurement of Geologic Time, 1953-1954. Publ. 333, National Research Council, Washing- ton, 193 pp., 1955. TL U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 McClure, F. A. A new bamboo and a new record for Guatemala. Phyto- logia, vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 81, 82, 1954. Megegers, Betty J. Environmental limi- tation on the development of culture. Amer. Anthrop., vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 801— 824, October 1954. The coming of age of American archeology. In “New Interpretations of Aboriginal American Culture His- tory,” 75th Anniversary volume, An- throp. Soc. Washington, pp. 116-129. 1955. (See also under Evans, Clifford.) Meyer, Marvin C., and Moore, J. Percy. Notes on Canadian leeches (Hirudi- nea), with the description of a new species. Wasmann Journ. Biol., vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 68-96, 2 pls., 1954. Translation of Selensky’s ‘“Mor- phological and systematic studies on the Hirudinea. I. The organization of the Ichthyobdellidae.” 160 pp., 41 figs., 8 pls., 1955. Miller, Gerrit S. Jr. and Johnson, David H. Bibliography of Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr. Journ. Mammalogy, vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 329-344, August 1954. —— and Kellogg, Remington. List of North American Recent Mammals. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 205, pp. 954, March 1955. Moore, J. Percy. Meyer, Marvin C.) Morrison, Joseph P. E. Some zoogeo- graphic problems among brackish water mollusks. Ann. Rep. Amer. Malacol. Union, 1954, pp. 7-10, Janu- ary 1955. Conus eldredi, new name for one of the poison cones. Journ. Washing- ton Acad. Sci., vol. 45, No. 1, p. 32, January 1955. Notes on the genera Lanz and Fisherola (Pulmonata). Nautilus, vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 79-88, 4 figs., Janu- ary 1955. Notes on American cyclophorid land snails, with two new names, eight new species, three new genera, and the family Amphicyclotidae, sepa- (See also under PUBLICATIONS rated on animal characters. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 149-162, 31 figs., May 1955. Morton, C. Y. A note on a species of Cyathea. Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 147, 148, 1954. Gesneriaceae. Jn Flora of Trin- idad and Tobago, vol. 2, pt. 5, pp. 801— 315, 1954. ——. Notes on Hlaphoglossum, III. The publication of Hlaphoglossum and Rhipidopteris, Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 11-14, 1955. and Neidorf, Charles. Polypo- dium vulgare var. virginianum. Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 111-114, pl. 12, 1954. and Neidorf, Charles. The hay- scented fern, Dennstaedtia punciilo- bula. Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 65-68, pl. 7, 1954. —— and Neidorf, Charles. The north- ern beech-fern. Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 17-19, pl. 2, 1955. Multhauf, Robert P. John of Rupe- seissa and the origin of medical chemistry. Isis, vol. 45, pt. 4, No. 142, pp. 359-67, December 1954. ——, J.B. Val Helmont’s reformation of the Galenic theory of digestion. Bull. Hist. Med., vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 154-63, March—April 1955. Nicol, David. Morphology of Astar- tella, a primitive heterodont pelecy- pod. Journ. Paleont., vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 155-158, 4 figs., January 1955. An analysis of the arctic marine pelecypod fauna. Nautilus, vol. 68. No. 4, pp. 115-122, 1955. Oliver, Smith Hempstone. Balzer ro- tary. Motorsport, vol. 5, No. 5, p. 56, October 1954. Perry, Stuart H. son, Hdward P.) Peterson, Mendel L. History under the sea. Smithsonian Inst., Publ. 4174, 17 pp., 7 figs., 1954. Marine archeology. The Mili- tary Engineer, vol. 47, No. 315, pp. 119-21, 4 pls. January—February 1955. Rehder, Harald A. Mollusks. Jn Gulf of Mexico, its origin, waters, and ma- (See under Hender- 51 rine life, Paul S. Galtsoff (editor). Fishery Bull. 89, Fish and Wildlife Service, pp. 469-474, 1954. Rudd, Velva E. Centrolobium (Legum- inosae): Validation of a specific name and a brief review of the genus. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 284-288, figs. 1, 2, 1954. Botanical contributions of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 351-3856, 1 fig., 1954. Schmitt, Waldo L. Copepoda. In Gulf of Mexico, its origins, waters, and marine life, Paul 8S. Galtsoff (editor). Fishery Bull. 89, Fish and Wildlife Service, pp. 439-442, 1954. Schultz, Leonard P. Know your Aus- tralian rainbowfishes. ‘Tropical Fish Hobbyist, vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 35-37, 2 figs., 1955. and Axelrod, H. R. The golden tetra, a new species of Hemigrammus from British Guiana. ‘Tropical Fish Hobbyist, vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 4-7, 2 figs., 1955. Setzer, Henry W. Zoological contribu- tions of the Lewis and Clark expedi- tion. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 856-857, November 1954. Setzler, Frank M. Henry Clyde She- trone. Ohio Hist. Soc., pp. 1-11, 1955. Shoemaker, Clarence R. Notes on the amphipod crustacean Maeroides thompsoni Walker. Journ. Washing- ton Acad. Sci., vol. 45, No. 2, p. 59, 1955. Amphipoda collected at the Arc- tie Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, Point Barrow, Alaska, by G. E. MacGinitie. Smith- sonian Mise. Coll., vol. 128, No. 1, pp. 78, 20 figs., 1955. Smith, Lyman B. Um género novo de Serofulariaiceas. Anais Bot. Herb. “Barb. Rodr.,”’ No. 5, pp. 37, 38, 1 pl., 1958. Uma nova Buddleja do Rio Grande do Sul. Sellowia, No. 6, pp. 301, 302, 1 pl., 1954. Notes on Bromeliaceae, IV. Phytologia, vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 33-50, pis. 1-7, 1954. 52 Smith, Lyman B. Notes on Brome liaceae, V. Phytologia, vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 177-183, pls. 1, 2, 1955. A new Navia from Colombia. Bromeliad Soe. Bull., vol. 5, No. 2, p. 19, 1 fig., 1955. — and Downs, Robert J. Xyrida- ceae from Brazil. Journ. Washing- ton Acad. Sci., vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 311- 313, 1 fig., 1954. — and Ferndndez-Pérez, Alvaro. Revisio violacearum Colombiae. Cal- dasia, vol. 6, No. 28, pp. 83-181, pls. 1-19, 1954. and Schubert, Bernice G. Studies in the Begoniaceae, IV. Journ. Wash- ington Acad. Sci., vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 110-114, 1 fig., 1955. Snodgrass, R. E. The dragonfly larva. Smithsonian Mise. Coll., vol. 128, No. 2, Publ. 4175, 38 pp., illustr., Septem- ber 1954. Snyder, Thomas E. A new fossil ter- nite, Parastylotermes frazieri, from California (Isoptera, Rhinotermiti- dae). Proe. Entom. Soc. Washington, vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 79-80, illustr., April 1955. Sohns, Ernest R. Cenchrus and Pen- nisetum: Fascicle morphology. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 1385-143, figs. 1-48, 1955. Stewart, T. D. American Institute of Human Paleontology. (Editorial) Science, vol. 120, No. 3106, p. 3, July 1954. Comments (on J. N. Spuhler’s paper entitled “Some problems in the Physical Anthropology of the Ameri- ean Southwest.”) Amer. Anthrop., vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 619-620, August 1954. A method for analyzing and re- producing pipe decorations. Quar- terly Bull., Archeol. Soc. of Virginia, vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 2-9, September 1954. Sex determination of the skele- ton by guess and by measurement. Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., n. s., vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 385-392, September 1954. Metamorphosis of the joints of the sternum in relation to age changes in other bones. Amer. Journ. Phys. U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Anthrop., n. s., vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 519— 5386, December 1954. Basic readings on the identifica- tion of human skeletons: estimation of age. Special publication, Wenner- Gren Foundation for Anthrop. Res., Inec., 347 pp., 1954. (Hdited jointly with Mildred Trotter.) The lower level human skull (from the McKean site in northeast- ern Wyoming). Southwestern Journ. Anthrop., vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 457-459, Winter 1954. Physical anthropology. In Handbook of Latin American Studies No. 17, pp. 80-83 (1951). Univ. Florida, 1954. Switzer, George. 29th annual report of the diamond industry, 1953. Jewel- ers’ Circular-Keystone, vol. 124, 10 pp., 1954. Memorial of Magnus Vonson. Amer. Mineral., vol. 40, Nos. 3-4, pp. 286-288, 1 pl., March—April 1955. and Foshag, W. F. Ordojfiezite, zine antimonate, a new mineral from Guanajuato, Mexico. Amer. Mineral., vol. 40, Nos. 1-2, pp. 6469, 1 fig., January—February 1955. —, Pabst, A., and Sawyer, D. L. Galeite, a new mineral from Searles Lake, California. Cordilleran Sec- tion of the Geol. Soc. America, pro- gram of annual meeting, p. 22, 1955. . Thompson, R. D., and Blanken- baker, Eleanor. Gem Stones. U. 8S. Bureau of Mines Minerals Yearbook, 1953, 10 pp. Taylor, Walter W. An analysis of some salt samples from the Southwest. Plateau, vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 1-7, Oc- tober 1954. Walker, Egbert H. Important trees of the Ryukyu Islands. (Ryukyu juyo jumoku shi.) Spee. Bull. U. 8S. Civil Adm. Ryukyu Isl., No. 3, pp. i-vi, 1- 350, figs. 1-209, January 1954. Concerning the Myrsinaceae (“Ardisiaceae’) of Japan I. Bot. Mag. Tokyo, vol. 67, pp. 105-111; (II) 155-162; (III) 208-218; (IV) 248- 255; 1954. PUBLICATIONS 53 Wedderburn, Alexander J. Picture materials for the practice of logo- making. The Multiplier. Foreign technics.” The Auk, vol. 72, p. 101, Operations Administration, No. 9, pp. January 1955. 5-6, March 1955. ——. The genus Lophodytes in the Wedel, Waldo R. Archeological mate- Pleistocene of Florida. Condor, vol. rials from the vicinity of Mobridge, 5%, Pp. 189, May-June 1955. South Dakota. Anthrop. Paper No.Wetmore, A. Friedmann, H., and 45, Bur. Amer. Ethnol. Bull. 157, pp. others. Twenty-ninth Supplement to 69-188, 1955. The American Ornithologists’ Union Cheek-List of North American Birds. The Auk, vol. 71, pp. 310-312, July nes 1954. aborigines. Amer. Journ. P harm., wilson, Mildred Stratton. A new spe- vol. 126, No. 12, pp. 409-415, 8 figs., cies of Diaptomus from Louisana and December 1954. Texas with notes on the subgenus Wetmore, A. Review of Brown’s Leptodiaptomus (Copepoda, Cala- “Composition of scientific words, noida). Tulane Studies Zool., vol. 2, a manual of methods and a lexicon of No. 3, pp. 51-60, 8 figs., 1954. — and Griffenhagen, George B. An Mnglish balsam among the Dakota Donors to the National Collections (Hacept when otherwise indicated, the specimens were presented by individ- ual donors or were transferred by the Bureaus of the Government in accordance with law) Abbott, Mrs. Donald P., Pacific Grove, Calif.: 75 bottles of diatom material (202764). Abbott, Dr. Donald P. Marine Station) Abreu, M. R., Guaro, Oriente, Cuba: Nautiloid cephalopod from Tertiary of Cuba (200864). Abriol, Col. R., Manila, P. I.: 1 horse- shoe crab from Malampaya Sound, Philippines (205828). Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil- adelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.: 1 paratype of a new subspecies of land snail from Texas (203844) ; 2,009 plants collected by Dr. F. W. Pennell (205991, ex- change). Aczél, Dr. Martin L., Tucuman, Ar- gentina: 6 fruit flies from South Amer- ica (206065). Adams, Dr. C. D., Achimota, Gold Coast, Africa: 32 West African ferns (202916, exchange). Adams, Mrs. Scott, Chevy Chase, Md.: 218 pieces—costumes and costume ac- cessories of late 18th and 19th centuries, sofa, 2 tables of mid-19th century, 2 foot warmers, wine bottle dated “1845,” and cast iron kettle (206516). Aellen, Dr. Paul, Basel, Switzerland : 10 specimens of plants (193792). Agriculture, U. S. Department of, Washington, D. C.: Agricultural Re- search Service: 77 grasses from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan (202626) ; 81 miscellaneous plants (203054, 204604) ; 5 plants collected in Africa (203328) ; 7 land snails from Cuba and Hire (203908); 5,066 plants from Af- ghanistan, India, and Iran collected by Walter Koelz (205545). Hntomology Research Branch: 5 land mollusks and 54 (See Hopkins 1 copepod from Azores (202992); 4 brackish water snails from Colombia (204539) ; 4 land mollusks from Méx- ico, Costa Rica, the Canal Zone, and Panama (204794, 205826) ; 2 land snails and 4 crustacea from Hcuador and Ma- Geira (205151) ; 7 mollusks from Hon- duras and St. Thomas, V. I. (206016) ; 35,239 insects from all over the world (206527) ; (through W. H. Anderson) 18 amphipods with unknown grass from the Azores (202442) ; (through Dr. Paul W. Oman) 6 land snails from Lou- isiana, Hcuador, Jamaica, and Trini- dad (203271, 203456, 205368) ; 11 hermit erabs collected from an airplane from Wake Island by D. H. Bixby (205500) ; (through G. F. Callaghan) 1 land snail from Cuba (204008). Horticultural Crops Research Branch: 575 erypto- gams and 86 grasses (205426, 205546) ; 4 plants from Texas (206561) ; (through Dr. H. S. Gentry) 10 plants (203706) ; (through Dr. Donovan §8. Correll) 30 Mexican ferns (204395) ; (through Dr. W. Andrew Archer) 87 ferns from India (205146) ; (through Dr. John A. Steven- son) $40 specimens of plants and 47 marine algae (205544, 205551); 242 miscellaneous bryophytes collected in New York (205715). National Arbore- tum: 360 grasses from Colombia and India (193146) ; 330 eryptogams from India (204556) ; 18 phanerogams from Colombia and Puerto Rico (205716) ; 7 plants from various regions (204772). Rubber Plant Investigations: 983 plants eollected in Colombia by Dr. R. E. Schultes (203546). Forest Service: 34,786 miscellaneous insects from North America (206528); (through Doris Hayes) 1 fern from Florida (204771). DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Texas: 32 specimens of miscellaneous grasses (204592). Akers, W. H., New Orleans, La.: Foraminifer holotype from Recent of Louisiana (203125). Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au- burn, Ala.: (Through Prof. Donald EH. Davis) 152 specimens of mosses from Washington and Florida (205425). Albanese, John S., Union, N. J.: 1 schallerite with hedyphane in granular franklinite ore from Franklin, N. J. (208806). Aldrich, Dr. John W. (See Interior, U. S. Department of, Fish and Wildlife Service) Alicata, Dr. Joseph E., Honolulu, T. H.: 71 land and fresh-water mollusks from Jordan (205945). Allanson, B. R. (See Cape Town, University of) Allard, H. A., Arlington, Va.: 95 plants from Virginia (204606). Allen, Robert D., Claremont, Calif.: 1 mineral from Death Valley Calif. (206564). Alpern, William J., Bridgeport, Conn. : Pyrolusite from Tetagouche River near Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada (204894). Alvarez, Dr. José. (See Escuela Na- cional De Ciencias Biologicas) Amadon, Dr. Dean. (See American Museum of Natural History) Amano, Tetsuo, Naha, Okinawa: 120 plants collected on Okinawa (203157). American Medical Association, Chi- cago, Ill.: “Height and Weight” Exhibit (205103). American Museum of Natural His- tory, New York, N. Y.: (Through J. T. Nichols) 3 fishes, including 1 paratype, from Florida (202826, exchange) ; (through Dr. Mont A. Cazier) 131 bugs from Bimini (203306) ; (through Pa- tricia Vaurie) 1 paratype weevil from México (203339) ; (through Dr. Norman D. Newell) 2,633 specimens of fossil plants, including 237 figured and type Specimens, about 1,800 Paleozoic and 1,596 Mesozoic and Tertiary plants ay) (204745, exchange) ; (through Dr. Dean Amadon) 4 Madagascar birds (205851, exchange). American Society of Photographic Art: (Through Edward L. Bafford) 51 prints by members of the Society for special exhibition during June 1955 (206534, loan). American Viscose Corporation, Phil- adelphia, Pa.: 1 xanthate crumb, 3 rayon fabries (202699). Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Grants, N. Mex.: (Through James Elias) 1 uranophane from Jurassic Todilto for- mation, Valencia County, N. Mex. (204599). Ananthakrishnan, T. N., Madras, South India: 8 slides of thrips from India (202979, exchange). Andersen, Dr. Harold V., Baton Rouge, La.: 3 foraminiferal samples from Eocene of Louisiana (204736, ex- change). Anderson, F. A. (See Burdick Corpo- ration) Anderson, Karen, Arlington, Va.: Hand-painted, and decorated, china silk fan, late 19th century (203722). Anderson, Philip, Cambridge, Mass.: (Through Dr. Arthur Boucot) 1 Mis- sissippian crinoid from Greencastle, Ind. (203772). Anderson, W. H. U. S. Department of) Anonymous: Silk commemorative handkerchief, World’s Columbian BHx- position, 1893 (204097) ; 1 egg of ex- tinct elephant bird (205515); 5 mis- cellaneous notes of 1786, 1857, 1858 and 1862-1874 (206056) ; (through Library of Congress) medallion in porcelain of George Washington (205980). Anisgard, Harry W., Maracaibo, Vene- zuela: 8 microsamples Foraminifera from Cretaceous, Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene of Venezuela (208161); 1 echinoid from Eocene of Venezuela (208329). Ansari, Dr. N., Teheran, Iran: 12 mosquitoes from Iran (202611). Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Fla.: (Through L. J. Brass) 1 fern specimen from Florida (205435). (See Agriculture, 56 Archer, Dr. W. Andrew (See Agri- eulture, U. S. Department of). Armstrong Cork Co., Lancaster, Pa.: 61 small glass and plastic prescription containers (205915). Armstrong, Mrs. Dorothy Hall, Bronxville, N. Y.: 1 Hall typewriter (205421). Armstrong, Mrs. Edwin H., Rye Beach, N. H.: 11 electronic devices representing original inventions of Major Armstrong (202631). Arnaud, Dr. Paul H., San Francisco, Calif.: 100 flies from Japan (206568). Arnett, Dr. Ross H., Jr., Rochester, N. Y.: 640 beetles from India (203080, 203332). Arnold, Mrs. John M., Hast Orange, N. J.: Washington Bi-Centennial silk commemorative handkerchief (203576). Arp, Mr. and Mrs. L. G., Elkhorn, Wis.: (Through Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Miles) 1 white cotton apron of late 19th century with rhyme embroidered upon it in red (206480). Artia, Ltd. (See Czechoslovakia, Government of) Ashley, George, Pala, Calif.: Beryl erystal in matrix of montmorillonite and feldspar from Vandenburg mine, Pala, Calif. (203189, exchange). Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Rail- way Co., Prewitt, N. Mex.: (Through T. O. Evans) 1 specimen of saurian leg bone, partially replaced by pitchblende, from McKinley County, N. Mex. (205560). Atlantic Biological Station, St. An- drews, New Brunswick, Canada: (Through H. D. Fisher) 8 cetaceans (204653). Atomic Energy Commission, Wash- ington, D. C.: 617 plants collected by F.. R. Nease from White Oak Creek and Lake Area, Oak Ridge National Lab- oratory (204202). Aurouze, Mile. G., Paris, France: 1 microsample from Hocene of France (203064). Australia, Commonwealth Govern- ment of, Department of Agriculture: 1 fern from Paraguay (2021380) ; 193 Aus- tralian plants (202917, exchange). U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Botanic Museum and Herbarium: 232 plants of Queensland and the Solomon Islands (203803, exchange). Common- wealth Scientific and Industrial Re- search Organization: 1 plant, cultivated in Australia (203327) ; 87 specimens of plants from northern Australia (206351, exchange) ; (through Dr. J. M. Thom- son) 83 fishes from Australia (2038037, exchange). Axelrod, Herbert, New York, N. Y.: 28 golden tetra fishes, including types, from Georgetown, British Guiana (201839). Bacon, B. B., Front Royal, Va.: 264 marine mollusks from near Aitape, New Guinea (205979). Bafford, Edward L. (See American Society of Photographie Art) Baker, Benjamin, Front Royal, Va.: 6 starfish, one with only four rays, from coral reef, Seleo Island, near Aitape, New Guinea (202753). Baldinger, Col. O. M., Pasadena, Calif: 104 specimens: clothing and per- sonal relics of President and Mrs. War- ren G. Harding, uniforms for Major of the Infantry, Regular Army, ca. 1910, and uniforms worn by donor as per- sonal military aide to President War- ren G. Harding (201626). Baldwin, Dr. J. T., Jr., Williamsburg, Va.: 1 red bat from Virginia (203766). Bandy, Dr. Mark, Redfield, Iowa: 26 specimens of block mica, and 1 rutile from Miami District, Southern Rho- desia (203896). Bandy, Dr. Orville L., Los Angeles, Calif.: 383 Foraminifera from Miocene of California (204469, exchange). Banks, Mrs. Edgar J., Eustis, Fla.: 75 items of needlepoint lace, drawn work, embroideries and edgings, and other accessories of 19th-century ladies’ and infants’ dress (204996). Barker, Dr. David. (See Hong Kong, University of) Barker, Elonzo L., Deale, Md.: 1 double-zither type stringed instrument (204720). Barlow, Dr. Eric. (See Southern Rhodesia Geological Survey) DONORS Barnard, Dr. J. lLaurens. (See Southern California, University of, Allan Hancock Foundation) Barnes, Mrs. Alice Toole (deceased) : (Through Elizabeth Barnes) 20 speci- mens of costumes, costume accessories, children’s clothes of 19th century; 4 bedspreads and piece of tapa cloth (204487); (through Col. Theodore Barnes, Jr.) 1 single-woven Jacquard eoverlet (206519). Barnes, Elizabeth. (See Barnes, Mrs. Alice Toole) Barnes, George (deceased): (Through Col. Theodore Barnes, Jr.) Alabaster hand-carved pedestal and fireplace hood and facing (204486). Barnes, Mabel A. (deceased): (Through Col. Theodore Barnes, Jr.) 28 specimens or late 19th- and early 20th-century dolls and doll clothes, col- lection of Indian basketry, water jars, metate and mano; Chinese jar (204485) . Barnes, Col. Theodore, Jr. (See Barnes, Mrs. Alice Toole; Barnes, George; Barnes, Mabel A.; Woodruff, Pauline B.) Barr, Dr. A. Ralph, St. Paul, Minn.: 12 mosquitoes and 2 flies from Minne- sota (203308, 205893, 206531). Bartenstein, Dr. Helmut, Celle, Ger- many: 6 Foraminifera from Cretaceous of Austria and Jurassic of Germany (204915, exchange). Bartholomew, Dr. George A., Jr., Los Angeles, Calif.: 1 barnacle from an ele- phant seal, San Nicolas Island (182915). Bartley, Floyd, Circleville, Ohio: 120 plants collected in Ohio and adjacent areas (204457). Bartsch, Dr. Paul, Lorton, Va.: 2 beetles and 1 land snail from Virginia, 1 silver-haired bat, 3 birds (202924, 203417, 204621, 204882). Baschant, Dr. Rudolf, Linz, Austria: 100 Austrian plants mostly collected by donor (202851, exchange). Bassindale, Dr. R.,. Bristol, England: 190 shrimps and 15 miscellaneous ma- rine invertebrates collected by donor from Gold Coast (203870). TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS 57 Bastes Tigre, Carlos. (See Minis- tério da Viacio e Obras Publicas) Bayer, Frederick M., Washington, D. C.: 18 fresh-water snails from Vir- ginia (202679). Bayerisches Feldspatwerk, Weiden, Germany: (Through Herr Direktor Wildenauer) 8 minerals from Hagen- dorf-Sud mine, Hagendorf, near Pley- stein, Oberpfalz, Germany (204802). Bayly, Mrs. Clay, Boston, Mass.: 1 green satin dress, ca. 1895, and 1 fire- place screen of French bronze, Louis XVI style (206486). Bears Bluff Laboratories, Wadmalaw Island, 8. C.: (Through Dr. G. Robert Lunz) 1 fish from off Kiawah Island, S. C. (204195). Beaudoin, Kenneth L., Tenn.: 2 bones of (201896). Beck, William M., Jr. State Board of Health) Becker, George E., St. Louis, Mo.: Harly electric door bell (204109). Beck-Lee Corporation, Chicago, Ill.: 1937 office medel electrocardiagraph (203311). Beckmann, Dr. H., Berkhopen ub. Peine, Germany: 6 Devonian Foramini- fera from Germany (205281). Beckwith, Frank D., Charles Town, W. Va.: Zanze, iron double bell, and hand rattle of cut seed pods collected about 1990 by Warren Cramet in Bel- gian Congo (208043). Becraft, David T., Lodi, Calif.: 12 miscellaneous land and marine mollusks (202926, exchange). Beer, Dr. Robert E., Lawrence, Kans. : 51 mites including holotype from Kan- sas (205996). Beetle, Dorothy E., Laramie, Wyo.: 72 fresh-water mollusks from Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico (202137). Beier, Dr. Max. (See Naturhis- torische Museum, Vienna) Belgium, Government of, Station @Entomologie de VEtat, Minisiere de VAgriculture, Gembloux: (Through Dr. W. HE. van den Bruel) 3 muskrats from Belgium (201840). Memphis, swamp rabbit (See Florida 58 Belkin, Dr. J. N., Los Angeles, Calif. : 9 mosquitoes from Arizona (203595). Bellini, Dr. E., Modena, Italy: 2 microsamples of Foraminifera from Tertiary of Italy (204673, exchange). Ben-Dor, Dr. I., New York, N. Y.: 3 used Israel “Coin” stamps (205617). Benedict, J. E., Jr., Silver Spring, Md.: 1 wood pewee (202853). Benesh, Bernard, Burrville, Tenn.: 4 beetles (206569). Bengston, Mrs. George, Evansdale— Waterloo, Iowa: 187 land and fresh- water mollusks from Iowa (203351). Bennett, Dr. Harry J., Baton Rouge, La.: 3 balanoglossids from Grand Isle (198968). Benson Grubstakers, and Panama Canal Natural History Society, Balboa, Panama: (Through James Zetek) 1,255 bird skins (203049). Bentinck, William C., Calif.: 14 blackflies (202862). Berg, Dr. Clifford O., Ithaca, N. Y.: 52 insects from New York (206530). Bermudez, Dr. Pedro J., Jusepin, Venezuela: 10 Foraminifera from Re- cent of the Caribbean (203297); 34 Foraminifera from Cretaceous of Cuba and Jamaica (204916, exchange). Berner, Leo D., La Jolla, Calif.: 23 type pelagic tunicates (202524). Berry, Dr. S. Stillman, Redlands, Calif.: 43 marine and fresh-water mol- lusks, including paratypes of new spe- cies, from western part of the North American continent, and 19 paratypes of new species of marine mollusks from the Pleistocene of southern California (202750). Bestor, Charles. School of Music) Bettenstaedt, Dr. F., Hannover, Ger- many: 150 Cretaceous Foraminifera from northern Germany (208291, ex- change). Bieda, Prof. Dr. Franciszek, Cracow, Poland: 85 Foraminifera from the Ju- rassic of Poland (205952, exchange). Biese, Dr. Walter N., Santiago, Chile: 293 fresh-water shells, including para- types, from Chile (204473, exchange). Berkeley, from Japan (See Juilliard U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Biester, Mrs. Rae VY. (See Treasury Department, Bureau of the Mint) Biezanko, Dr. C. M., Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: 293 miscellane- ous insects (203869) ; 362 insects from Brazil (206062, 206064, 206070, 206570). Biggs, Joseph D., Washington, D. C.: 1 gray fox from Washington, D. C. (204805). Bishop Museum, Bernice P., Hono- lulu, T. H.: 183 plants of Micronesia and Rotuma; 398 plants of Fiji and Hawaii, collected by H. St. John and others (205240, 205990, exchange). Blake, Mrs. Doris, Washington, D. C.: 142 beetles from Texas (206455). Blakeslee, Maj. Theodore C. (See Defense, Department of, Department of the Army) Blandford, Ned, McLean, Va.: 1 born- ite from Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Va. (203981); 3 chabazite specimens from Lane County, Oreg. (205093). Blandy Experimental Farm, Boyce, Va.: 34 plants (203122). Blanton, Col. F. S., Washington, D. C.: 265 miscellaneous insects from Panam4& (202982, 205097). Bliven, Brunson P., Eureka, Calif.: 16 type bugs (204800). Blom, Richard A., Sioux Falls, S. Dak.: 3 land snails from South Dakota (204857). Blume, Dr. Werner, Goettingen, Ger- many: 102 land and marine mollusks from Egypt and Syria (203234, ex- change). Bobst, Elmer H. cott Laboratories) Boerger, Alfred G., Toledo, Ohio: 1 folder letter sheet with reprint of ‘“Mag- nus” view of Chicago (205614). Bolli, Dr. Hans, Trinidad, B. W. I.: 6 Foraminifera from the Cretaceous of Tunisia (198177) ; 2 samples of Recent river mud for Protozoa from Trinidad (203295) ; 31 Foraminifera from Oligo- ecene of Trinidad (203522, 204467) ; 200 Foraminifera and 1 microsample from Cretaceous and Tertiary of Trinidad, B. W. I. (206355, exchange). Boole, John A. Jr., Chapel Hill, N. C.: 25 microscope mounts of woods (204696, exchange). (See Warner-Chil- DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Borro Garcia, Primitivo, Havana, Cuba: 27 Recent and Oligocene brachio- pods from Cuba (205096). Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass. : (Through Arthur W. Heintzelman) 32 etchings by Mr. Heintzelman for exhi- bition January 381-March 27, 1955 (204716, loan). Boston University, Boston, Mass.: 39 plants collected in Alaska by Dr. A. R. Hodgdon (203052). Botanic Garden, Washington, D. C.: 1 trunk section of a dwarf Hinoki False- cypress (205986). Botanisch Museum en Herbarium, Utrecht, Netherlands: 124 ferns, includ- ing types (204667, exchange). Botanische Staatssammlung, Mu- nich, Germany: 1 plant from México (205200). Botanisches Institut der Universitat, Heidelberg, Germany: 380 plants col- lected in PerG and Heuador by Prof. Dr. Werner Rauh (204887). Bottimer, L. J., Kerrville, Tex.: 1 beetle from New Jersey (2048389). Boucot, Dr. Arthur J., Arlington, Va.: 2,000 invertebrate fossils from Silurian and Devonian formations of New Bruns- wick, Nova Scotia, and Quebec (208552) ; 2 minerals from Richmond, N. H., and Deadman’s Canyon, Hl Paso County, Colo. (203956, exchange) ; 10 tungsten ores from North Carolina, 1 jarosite from Maryland, 1 diadochite from Tennessee, and 1 chabazite from West Greenland (204464, exchange) ; 1 mineral, glaucodot, from Quartzberg, Oreg. (205283) ; 10 brachiopods from Silurian of New York (206085) ; 1 side- rite specimen from Greenland (206506). (See also Anderson, Philip; Gould, James; and Kingsley, Prof. Louise) Bousfield, Dr. E. L. (See Canada, Government of) Boush, Dr. G. Mallory, Lexington, Ky.: 2 crayfishes from Kentucky (203645). Bowman, Capt. H. E., Ventura, Calif. : Skull of Indian female found on bank of Ventura River (205525). Bowman, Dr. Thomas E., Washing- ton, D. C.: 993 marine invertebrates and 59 2 gastropods from the Pacific (2038690). (See also Scripps Institute of Ocea- nography ) Box, Harold E., Port-of-Spain, Trin- idad, B. W. I.: 8 moths from Central and South America (2083807). Bradford, Faith, Chevy Chase, Md.: 1 pink brocade christening blanket ; cot- ton exercise suit worn by donor’s mother, and iron slave collar, both of 1860 period (204880, 205244). Brady, Thomas F., Yorktown Village, Va.: 10 amphibians and reptiles from Elk Mountain, Nelson County, Va. (206341). Branham, Mrs. Hugh, Fort Myers Beach, Fla.: 1 marine mollusk from East Africa (203427). Brantley, Odell M., Silesia, Md.: 1 raccoon from Maryland (205412). Brass, L. J. (See Archbold Biological Station) Brazer, Dr. Clarence W., Flushing, N. Y.: 28 U.S. cigar and snuff Internal Revenue stamps, overprinted (204479). Breckenridge, Dr. Jack D., Centralia, Wash.: Polished slab of agate from near Tono, Wash. (203779). Bridwell, J. C., Lignum, Va.: 119 weevils and 4 hymenopterous parasites (205098). Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah: 30 grasses from Utah (201298). Brissaud, Marce, Trona, Calif.: 20 saline minerals from Searles Lake, Calif. (205802, exchange). Brittan, Dr. Martin R. mento State College) Bronnimann, Dr. P., Havana, Cuba: 275 type specimens of Foraminifera from Cretaceous and Tertiary of Cuba and Trinidad (203721). Brother Ginés. (See Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, Caracas) Brown, Noel, Havana, Cuba: 48 For- aminifera from the Cretaceous of Cuba (203720, exchange); 8 microsamples from Cretaceous of Texas (2043888, ex- change). Brown, Paul L., Champaign, Ill.: 3 crayfishes (205359). Brown, Dr. W. L. (See Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology) (See Sacra- 60 Bruce, David K. E., Washington, D. C.: 122 first flight covers in 2 volumes, dating from 1929 to 1988 (206484). Brunel, Pierre. (See Nadeau, Vic- tor) Brunner, Dr. Henri, Lausanne, Switz- erland: 96 European ferns (205434, ex- change). Bruns, Franklin R., Jr.. Washington, D. C.: Collection of Chinese stamps, 1878-1940 (204197) ; 3,014 foreign and domestie philatelic specimens (204198, 204894, 205628, 206372, 206492, 2065388). Bruns, Hattie H., New York, N. Y.: 1 United States first day cover and 1 United Nations first day cover (205616). Brunson, Dr. Royal Bruce, Missoula, Mont.: 22 specimens gastrotricha from Michigan (205251). (See also Pres- eott, Dr. Gerald W.) Brush, Warren D., Silver Md.: 7 phanerogams (206028). Bullis, Harvey, Jr. (See Interior, Department of the, Fish and Wildlife Service) Bureh, John B., Ann Arbor, Mich.: 210 land snails from Virginia (204540). Burch, Mrs. T. A., Silver Spring, Md.: 2 mammals from Liberia (206450). Burdick Corperation, Milton, Wis.: (Through F. A. Anderson) Modern elec- trocardiograph display (203309). Burkhart, J. (See Hattrick, E. N.) Burks, Dr. B. D., Washington, D. C.: Approximately 2,000 miscellaneous adult insects collected by donor in May— June, 1954, near Paris, France (202866). Burlingame, Agnes. (See Women’s International Stamp Club) Burroughs, Paul, Concord, N. H.: 1 cut rose quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil (203983, exchange); 1 rock- bridgeite specimen from Fletcher mine, North Groton, N. H. (204676, ex- change) ; 1 cut rose quartz from Brazil (205882, exchange). Bushee, Mrs. Florence, Newbury, Mass. : 63 antique paperweights and as- sociated specimens of glass (205600, loan). Butler, Mrs. Virginia, Osterville, Mass.: 4 pieces of gold and black Chi- nese lacquer from Foochow (203542). Spring, 8S eee SS U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Butler University, Indianapolis, Ind. : (Through Dean K. L. Kaufman) All- glass Oldberg percolator, ca. 1890 (204491). Byas, Walter J., Washington, D. C.: 48 land moliusks from Warren County, Va., (203337). Cahalane, Victor H. (See Interior, U. S. Department of the, National Park Service) Calderwood, Stanford. Corporation) California, University of, Berkeley, Calif.: 5 grasses from California (202691, 204106) ; 845 plants, mostly collected in El Salvador by J. Tucker (2038605, gift-exchange) ; (through Dr. Deane Furman) 8 fresh-water snails from California (202217); (through Boyd W. Walker) 16 fishes, including 2 paratypes, from tropical Pacific Ocean (202444, exchange) ; (through Beecher Crampton) 12 grasses collected in Cali- fornia (205285) ; (through Dr. Paul D. Hurd, Jr.) 1 first-stage meloid larvae, blister beetles (205537). California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Calif.: 2 grasses from Cali- fornia (204608) ; 449 plants from Cali- fornia (205906, exchange); (through Dr. Hugh B. Leech) 4 beetles from Brit- ish Columbia and Oregon (202987). (See also Interior, U. S. Department of, Fish and Wildlife Service) California State Fisheries Labora- tory, San Pedro, Calif.: (Through John H. Fitch) 1 fish, holotype, taken May 3, 1954, by Harold B. Clemens on tuna clipper Mayflower (202845). Callaghan, G. F. (See Agriculture, U. 8S. Department of, Hntomology Re- search Branch) Cambridge, Mrs. Henry S., Wilmette, Ill.: 2 vests, lined with fur, used by U. S. Navy during World War II (204488). Cambridge, Philip, Wales: 75 Paleozoic brachiopods (205092). Campbell, Maj. J. Duncan, Harris- burg, Pa.: 1 iron fife, ca. American Rey- olution (2047038, exchange). (See Polaroid Cardiff, South and Mesozoic DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Campbell, Dr. Kenneth, Armidale, Australia: 5 Permian brachiopods from Queensland, Australia (204548, ex: change). Canada, Government of, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa: 139 Cana- dian lichens (206027, exchange); (through Dr. Loris S. Russell) 7 fossil mollusks from the Hocene, Kishenehn formation, Montana (204672) ; (through Dr. BH. L. Bousfield) 53 speci- mens of amphipods (204918, exchange). Canfield Fund, Smithsonian Institu- tion: Turquoise nugget from Villa Grove Turquoise Lode, Colo. (203229) ; 1 tourmaline group from Conselheiro Pena, Brazil (203890) ; 2 minerals from Centreville, Va. (203891) ; 1 dinosaur bone replaced by agate and amethyst from western Montrose County, Colo. (204903) ; 400 minerals from Franklin, N. J. (204904) ; 6 minerals from Crystal Park, Pikes Peak, Hl Paso County, Colo. (204440) ; 3 schallerite specimens from New Jersey (205553). Cantrall, Dr. Irving J. (See Michi- gan, University of) Cape Town, University of, Ronde- bosch, Union of South Africa: (Through B. R. Allanson) 5 mollusks, including paratype, from South Africa (204853) ; (through Dr. E. A. Schelpe) 8 ferns from South Africa (206472, exchange). Cardozo, J. S., Klamath Falls, Oreg.: 73 United States and foreign coins (201556). Carrow, John J., Brookmont, Md.: 1 etching by G. B. Piranesi, “Veduta in- terna della Villa de Mecenate”’ (208075). Carpenter, Dr. F. M. University, Zoology) Carranza, Dr. Jorge. (See Instituto Mexicano De Recursos Naturales Re- novables) Carson, Frank, New Concord, Ohio: 1 nail, ca. 1825 (205256). Carter, Ann, Tyler, Tex.: 1 Mesozoic core sample from the Gulf Coastal Plain (205249). Carter, D. J., London, England: 4 Recent foraminiferal samples from (See Harvard Museum of Comparative 61 Funafuti Atoll and the Challenger Ex- pedition (203065, exchange). Casanova, Dr. Richard L., Statesville, WN. C.: 150 Tertiary invertebrate fossils from Okinawa (203610, exchange). Casey, Raymond, London, England: 1 microsample of Lower Cretaceous from England (203057); 7 foraminiferal samples and 6 ammonites from the Lower Cretaceous (Gault) of England (205559). Cate, Margaret Davis, Sea Island, Ga.: 1 fresh-water mussel from Georgia (203639). Causey, David, Fayetteville, Ark.: 4 slides, comprising the type series of a trematode worm (205704) ; 7 lots of parasitic copepods from vicinity of Pas- eagoula, Miss. (204709). (See also Causey, Dr. Nell Bevel) Causey, Dr. Nell Bevel, and Causey, Dr. David, Fayetteville, Ark. : 19 marine invertebrates, 8 echinoderms, and 7 mol- lusks, collected early summer 1954 at Isla de Sacrificios, off Veracruz, México (203626). Cazier, Dr. Mont A. (See American Museum of Natural History) Central Inland Fisheries Research Station, Calcutta, India: 33 specimens of Indian mullets (202918, exchange). Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis, Mo.: (Through Dr. S. Richard Silverman) 1 “acoustic fan” hearing aid combined with a hearing trumpet (205981). Chace, E. P. (See Natural History Museum, San Diego, Calif.) Chadbourne, Mrs. H. C., Washington, D. C.: 5 illuminated family records, Bal- timore, ca. 1850 (204721). Chamberlain Fund, Frances Lea, Smithsonian Institution: 1 greened amethyst, and 1 twin-colored amethyst from Bahia, Brazil (202409) ; 1 scapo- lite cat’s eye from Malaya (203889) ; 1 eut blue topaz from Bald Face Moun- tain, North Chatham, N. H. (204912) ; 1 albite Cat’s eye, 42.60 carats, from Burma (205339) ; 2 sherry-colored to- pazes, Crystal Park area, Colo., 1 blue topaz from Glen Cove, Pikes Peak, Colo. (206034). 62 Chapman, Milton, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala: 25 butterflies and moths from Colombia (204884). Chase, Joseph Cummings, Milwaukee, Wis. : 79 portraits of World War I U. S. Army personnel, and 1 portrait Korean War U.S. Army enlisted man (203612). Chell, Rey. Erwin, Puttur, South In- dia: 1 chameleon, 7 snakes, and collec- tion of insects from Chittoor District, South India, collected by donor (204140). Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, Ill.: 3 flying lizards from the Philippines, Sumatra, and Indo-China (198236, exchange); 2 plants from South America (202760); 24 plants from Venezuela and 10 from Missouri collected by J. A. Steyermark (203117, 203963, exchange) ; 149 plants, various regions and collectors (203587, gift-ex- change) ; 22 plants, mostly historical specimens, from South America (204554, exchange) ; (through Loren P. Woods) 38 frogfishes, including 1 paratype (204527, exchange). Christian, David M., Nanticoke, Pa.: 1 yellow-billed tropic bird (203976). Christian, Dr. John J. (See Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health) Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Summit, N. J.: 1 allergy exhibit consist- ing of three panels (205534). Ciry, Professor. (See Université de Dijon) Clancy, Jack T. Co.) Clark, Col. Eugene S., Jr., Sandwich, Mass., Glass, Robert, Ellisville, Mass., and Slip, Roy, Attleboro, Mass. : basket- starfish mounted in plastic (205059). Clark, Dr. R. B., Berkeley, Calif.: 5 type polychaetes collected by M. L. Jones from San Francisco Bay, Calif., September 1958 (2043877). Clark University, Worcester, Mass.: 7 phanerogams (205651) ; (through Dr. David Potter) 69 ferns, 46 cryptogams from New Zealand (206093). Clarke, Dr. J. F. Gates, Washington, D. C.: 21 land snails from Maryland (204105). (See Kremers Urban U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Clarke, Mr. John Semple (deceased) : Model of American-type locomotive made of brass and steel (206440). Clarke, William D., New York, N. Y.: 15 paratype mysids (203888). Claude Ezell and Associates, Dallas, Tex.: 1 Cretaceous ammonite from near Fort Worth, Tex. (204239). Clay, Dr. William M. (See Louis- ville, University of) Clemson Agricultural College, Clem- son, 8S. C.: 21 plants collected in Haiti by Prof. C. H. Arndt (205540); (through Frances McAlister) 4 beetles from James Island, Va. (202923). Clench, Dr. William J. (See Har- vard University, Museum of Compara- tive Zoology) Clint, Mrs. Katherine L., Brownsville, Tex.: 14 plants from México (206563). Cloud, Dr. Preston E., Jr. (See In- terior, U. S. Department of the, Geologi- cal Survey) Coats, Jim, Pratt, Kans. : 3 bird skele- tons (203506). Cogswell, Guy K., Washington, D. C.: 10 items relating to fashions and naval clothing of the early 1900’s (205723). Colby, Sylvester, New York, N. Y.: 1 United States first day pictorial post- card, franked with 2-cent Jefferson post- age stamp of 1954 (205613). Cole, Dr. A. C., Knoxville, Tenn. : 149 ants, including 18 paratypes, from North America (202860, 206029, 2065783). Cole, Dr. Lewis Gregory, White Plains, N. Y.: 1925 model of X-ray mo- tion picture machine made by donor (203970). Colégio Anchieta, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: 77 grasses from Brazil, collected by Dr. B. Rambo (202759). Coleman, R. G., Falls Church, Va.: 4 minerals, 1 analyzed rock from near Idria, Calif. (205157). Collin, H.G. (See White Motor Com- pany) Collins, Dr. Henry B., Washington, D. C.: 21 miscellaneous insects and spiders from Southampton Island, Hud- son Bay, Canada (203531). DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Colorado Agricultural and Mechani- cal College, Fort Collins, Colo.: 1 plant from Colorado (203053). Columbia Stamp Co., Elmhurst, N. Y.: 1 first day cover, United Nations 3-cent ICAO stamp, Feb. 9, 1955 (205619). Commerce, U. S. Department of, Washington, D. C.: 8 medals awarded by act of Congress, March 1914, to crew of Steamer Kroonland for bravery in rescuing crew of Steamer Volturno (208525). Coast and Geodetic Survey: Chronometer obtained in 1848 and marked “Arnold and Dent, 84 Strand, London, No. 1131” (206050). Weather Bureau: Late 19th century telescope (204611); (through Robert Wright) scientific precision clock (205420) ; mis- cellaneous meteorological instruments (204612). Commerford, Leon, Washington, D. C.: 7 G.A.R. badges (203593). Compere, Dr. H., Riverside, Calif.: 100 Chaleid wasps from Africa (205710). Conant, Lewis C., Fort Myers, Fla.: 5-dollar note issued by Bank of West Florida, Appalachicola (203331). Conkin, James E., Beeville, Tex.: 20 Foraminifera from the Mississippian of Kentucky (203058) ; holotype of Ordo- vician pelecypod from Kentucky (204391). (See also Klett, George) Cook, Dr. Edwin F. (See Minnesota, University of) Cooley, George R., Cambridge, Mass. : 4 grasses from Georgia and Florida (204199). Cooper, Dr. G. Arthur, Washington, D. C.: 750 specimens of invertebrate fossils from Porterville Quarry, Va. (206509). Cooper, Dr. K. W., Rochester, N. Y.: 2 land snails from Florida (205287). Copenhagen, University of, Copen- hagen, Denmark: 96 plants (202671, ex- change) ; 370 plants collected in Argen- tina by ‘Troels Myndel Pedersen (203904, exchange); 479 plants col- lected in southern Europe by Joh. Lange and C. Raunkiaer (204886, exchange). 859492—55 6 63 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. (Through Dr. W. J. Hamilton, Jr.) : 9 small mammals from Korea (205207). Bailey Hortorium: 17 cultivated plants (204444, gift-exchange) ; (through Dr. H. E. Moore, Jr.) 5 cultivated plants (204726) ; 4 cultivated phanerogams (206349, exchange). Cornman, Dr. Ivor, Washington, D. C.: 7 gorgonians, 4 isopods (204976). Coronado, Dr. Pedro S., Lima, Pert: 115 Perfivian ferns (204232). Correll, Dr. Donovan S. (See Agri- culture, U. S. Department of, Horticul- tural Crops Research Branch) Corroy, Professor, Marseille, France: 1 slab of rock containing Foraminifera, and 16 invertebrate fossils from Cre- taceous and Triassic of France (203198, exchange). Cortés, Rail, Santiago, Chile: 9 flies from Chile, including allotype of new species (206066). Corwin, Dr. Gilbert. (See Interior, U. S. Department of the, Geological Survey) Costlow, Dr. John D., Jr., Beaufort, N. C.: 1 type lot of barnacles, found at Beaufort (204822). Cott, Dr. H. Edwin, Dugway, Utah: 14 beetles (205003); 29 antlions (205005). Cottam, Dr. Walter P. (See Utah, University of) Cottrell, Ray E., Houston, Pa.: Fin- ished board section of curly yellow buckeye from Canonsburg, Washington County, Pa. (205985). Cox, Thomas F., Berkeley, Calif: 1 colored lead figure of mounted trooper, U. S. Cavalry, 1876 (202960). Craig, Wilfred G., Ames, Iowa: 9 moths from North America (202983). Crampton, Beecher. (See California, University of) Crane, Max H., Brooklyn, N. Y.: 1 Hastman 3A autographic folding pocket Kodak (205479). Crecelius, Dr. H. Gilbert, Phoenix, Ariz.: (Through Health, Education and Welfare, Department of) 2 fresh- water clams from water supply of Phoenix (203613). 64 Crickmay, Dr. Colin H., Calgary, Al- berta, Canada: 2 Devonian brachiopods from British Columbia (205094, ex- change). Crooks, William D. and Company ) Crown Agents for the Colonies, Washington, D. C.: (Through A. J. E. Davis) 26 philatelic specimens (203805, 204208, 205574, 206369). Cummings, Dr. R., Glasgow, Scot- land: Approximately 25 Foraminifera from the Carboniferous of Scotland and Tertiary of Africa (2038070, exchange). Curtis, Karl P., Gamboa, C. Z.: 2 brocket deer from Panama (203603). Curtis, Lawrence, ort Worth, Tex.: 5 copperhead snakes from southeast Texas (205519). Cushman Foundation for Foraminif- eral Research, Washington, D. C.: (Through Dr. John B. Reeside, Jr.) 20 washed Miocene foraminiferal samples and 2 slides of Foraminifera from Austria (205399). Cutress, Charles E., Honolulu, T. H.: 9 lots of aleyonarians (204975). Cuvillier, Dr. J., Paris, France: 25 Foraminifera from Cretaceous. of France and Paleocene of Arabia (203194, exchange). Czechoslovakia, Government of: (Through Artia) 50 Czechoslovakian philatelic specimens (204188, 204616, 204899, 206362, 206552) ; Antonin Zapo- tocky 70th birthday mint set, first-day cover, and souvenir sheet (205219). Dahlgreen Fund, Smithsonian Insti- tution: “Le Coup de Vent,” linoleum cut by Felix Vallotton (203968). Dalbies, M. F., Begles, France: 8 type Foraminifera from Cretaceous of Tu- nisia (204739). Dales, Dr. Phillips, London, England: 36 polychaetes, including 1 paratype (205257). Dally, Jesse L., Morgantown, W. Va.: 60 early Mississippian brachiopods from Bluefield, W. Va. (204570, exchange). Darlington, Dr. P. J. (See Harvard University, Musewmn of Comparative Zoology) (See Eli Lilly U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Darnell, Dr. Rezneat M., New Or- leans, La.: 583 miscellaneous marine invertebrates from Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana (200306). (See also Tulane University ) Davis, A. G., London, England: 100 foraminifera from Persia (203066). Davis, A. J. E. (See Crown Agents for the Colonies) Davis, Dr. David E., Baltimore, Md.: Skulls of 4 deer from James Island, Md. (206524). Davis, Prof. Donald E. bama Polytechnic Institute) Davis, Francis W., Waltham, Mass.: Prototype power steering apparatus for automobiles constructed by donor in 1925 (202515). Davis, Guy C., Kansas City, Mo.: 1 drawing instrument used by General Philip H. Sheridan (203524). Davis, Dr. Jess H., (See Stevens In- stitute of Technology) Dawson, Albert, Heathsville, Va.: 1 Tertiary crab from Northumberland County, Va. (203342). de Andrade, N. F., Lisbon, Portugal: 7 paratype wasps from Cyprus (203597). Debourle, A., Pau, France: 53 For- aminifera from Eocene of France (205554, 206357, exchange). Defense, U. S. Department of, Wash- ington, D. C., Armed Forces Epidemio- logical Board: (Through Lt. J. Knox Jones, Jr.) 480 mammals from Korea (202890). Armed Forces Medical Li- brary: (Through R. H. Eeckenbach) 1 Draeger microfilm camera (204575). DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY: Commis- Sions, relics, documents, ete., relating to eareer of General David L. Brainard (203592). Army Medical Service Grad- wate School: (Through Dr. Phyllis T. Johnson) 3 crayfish (204448) ; (through Lt. Col. Robert Traub) 350 mammals collected by Capt. William H. Lawrence in Korea, 49 birds, and 1 Malayan slow loris (202867, 206557). Brooke Army Medical Center: (Through Lt. Col. Sam- uel O. Hill) 1 red bat from Texas (202613). 406th Medical General Labo- ratory: (Through Maj. Theodore C. (See Ala- DONORS Blakeslee) 4 mammals collected by Lt. Howard R. Bullock in Korea (208200). Preventive Medicine Survey: (Through Capt. Hilton H. Earle, Jr.) 72 fishes, 38 reptiles, insects, 86 marine inverte- brates, 823 mollusks (201951, 204856) ; (through Charles M. Keenan) 88 mam- mals from Panama and Canal Zone (202695) ; (through Lt. J. Knox Jones, Jr.) 40 mammals from Korea (206448). Walter Reed Army Medical Center: (Through Lt. Col. Robert Traub) 92 fleas from North America and 345 vials of ticks, world wide (206517, 206518). DEPARTMENT OF THE Navy, U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 8: (Through Colin Campbell Sanborn) 236 mammals from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (190610) ; (through Lt. Comdr. Robert EK. Kuntz) 106 mammals from Egypt (206558) ; (through Dr. William H. Wells) 390 reptiles and amphibians, 8 marine fishes, 225 mollusks, 52 marine invertebrates, and 25 birds (202886, 204560). Naval Observatory: 1 caleu- lating machine, Heli ‘Millionaire’ (204773). DeFriece, Frank W., Jr. sengill Co., S. H.) Degener, Otto, Waialua, Hawaii: 1 Hawaiian sooty tern (204883). Deichmann, Dr. Elisabeth. (See Harvard University, Museum of Com- parative Zoology) de Klasz, Dr. I., Gabon, French West Africa: 25 Foraminifera from the Cre- taceous of Bavaria and France, includ- ing 19 types (208071) ; 32 Foraminifera, including 11 paratypes, from the Cre- taceous of Bavaria (208121, 203294, ex- change). de Koninck, Dr. Marcel, Quezalte- nango, Guatemala: 148 grasses from Guatemala (202694, 203025, 203326, 203898); 39 plants from Guatemala (203840). Delhi, University of, Delhi, India: 105 plants collected in India (203545, exchange). ; Demaree, Dr. Delzie, Ocean Springs, Miss.: 459 plants from Mississippi (201397, 204456, 204607, 205603); 83 (See Mas- TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS 65 grasses from Mississippi and Arkansas (204025, 204360). Denmark, Dr. H. A. State Plant Board of) Dennen, Mrs. Sarah S., New York, N. Y.: Model of the yacht America (206439). de Oliveira, Dr. Paulo E., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 1 marine mollusk from Brazil (205243) ; 1 pelecypod from Up- per Cretaceous of Brazil (205400). DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.: 58 plants collected in Tonga (203606, gift-exchange). des Abbayes, Prof. Henry N. Université de Rennes) Desautels, Paul E., Towson, Md.: 1 eyanotrichite from Banat, Hungary (204730). de Souza Lopes, Dr. H., Rio de Ja- neiro, Brazil: 6 marine mollusks from Fernando Noronha Island, Brazil (208611). Diem, José, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina: 44 ferns from Argentina (204392). Diener, Richard L., Reading, Pa.: 148 plants collected in Mississippi (203287). Dietz, Ralph W., China Lake, Calif.: 1 specimen of hubnerite from California and 1 hyalite from Idaho (205331, ex- change). di Napoli Alliata, Dr. Enrico, Rome, Italy: 3 Foraminifera from Pliocene of Italy (208719). Diviszo de Defesa Sanitaria Vegetal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: (Through Dr. C. R. Gonealves) 633 ants from Brazil, (See Florida, (See including 11 paratypes (2083874, ex- change). Division of Entomology, Pretoria, South Africa: (Through Dr. J. C. Faure) 16 thrips, including 9 paratypes, from Africa (202703). Dix, George P., Jr., Grand Junction, Colo.: Gold in uraninite from Virgin mine, Placer de Guadeloupe, Chihuahua, México (204914, loan). Dodds, L. B. (See Hazeltine Corpo- ration) Dodge, Dr. H. R., Savannah, Ga.: 5 type sarcophagid flies from Georgia (202606). (See also Health, Education 66 and Welfare, U. S. Department of, U. S. Public Health Service) Dodge and Olcott, Inc.. New York, N. Y.: (Through Ruth Farnworth) An exhibit titled “The Evolution of Fla- voring Medicine” (203201). Donken, W. P., New York, N. Y.: 1 posteard marking 25th Anniversary ist flight Buenos Aires to Miami (204882). Dorfman, David, Washington, D. C.: 1 unused Palestine, 5 milliemes on 1 piastre, Scott’s No. 3 (206368). Douse, Mrs. Dorothy E., Washington, D. C.: 1 German Bundespost cover, Feb. 26, 1955 (206493). Drake, Dr. C. J.. Ames, Iowa: 5 bugs from Africa (202610). Dranga, Ted, Miami, Fla.: 4 marine mollusks from Costa Rica (205703). Drooger, Dr. C. W., Utrecht, Nether- lands: 2 Foraminifera from Tertiary of Hast Indies (204740). Duke University, Durham, N. C.: (Through Donald W. Strasburg) 19 fishes, mostly from Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands, collected by Mr. Strasburg (202825) ; 23 fishes, including types of blennies from the Hawaiian Islands (206058). Dupérier, Roger, Biarritz, France: 5 Recent brachiopods from off the coast of France (203199). Dupont, James M., Stirling, N. J.: 2 jadeite celts from Patuztin, Guatemala (204775) ; 2 mineral specimens from Canada and Germany (204936, ex- change). Earle, Capt. Hilton H., Jr. (See De- fense, Department of, Depariment of the Army) Ebert, F. M., Tamaqua, Pa. : 10 fresh- water pearls and 12 Unio shells from Schuylkill River, Pa. (204856). Kckenbach, R. H. (See Department of Defense, Armed Forces Medical Li- brary) Ecole d’Agriculture, Rimouski, Que- bec, Canada: 24 grasses from Canada (208764); 12 plants (204559, ex- change). Eddy, Dr. Samuel. University of) (See Minnesota, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Eggler, Prof. Willis A. comb College) Hichner, L. C., Clifton, N. J.: Repro- duction of Isaae Newton’s telescope (205702, loan). Eickemeyer Fund, Smithsonian In- stitution: 1 motion picture camera, 17.5 mm., made about 1915 for Thomas Armat by Joseph Chlopicki (205522). Eide, Paul M., Mount Vernon, Wash. : 6 moths (205064). Eisenack, Prof. Dr. A., Reutlingen, Germany : 3 slides of Ordovician Foram- inifera from Germany (205250, ex- change). Eisenhower, President Dwight D, Washington, D. C.: 3 painted pottery vases presented to President Hisen- hower by Ulysses O. C. Tsangarides on behalf of people of Cyprus (203984) ; vase of bone china commemorating the coronation, June 2, 1953, of Queen Eliz- abeth II, presented to the United States of America through the British Em- bassy (205524, deposit). Hisenhower, Mrs. Dwight D., Wash- ington, D. C.: Pair of pink silk opera- length gloves worn by donor with her inaugural ball gown (208303); pearl and rhinestone choker-type necklace, bracelet and earrings, worn by donor with inaugural ball gown (203966). Elbel, Robert E., Bangkok, Thailand: 182 mammals and 4385 birds collected in Siam by Mr. Elbel and Dr. Boonsong Lekagul (206514). Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Ind.: (Through William D. Crooks) Replica of Kimble ampoule (original anti-toxin bulb) made of amber glass, and set of ampoule slides with deserip- tive ecards (203203). Elias, James. (See Anaconda Copper Mining Co.) Ellis, T. K., Hot Springs, Va.: 300 cladocerans, 496 mysids, and 4 shrimps from South Carolina (200849). Ellsworth, D. W., Lynnwood, Wash. : Pen and ink drawing of battle of Vicks- burg made during the Civil War by Alfred Garrett (206540). Ely, Mrs. Myra H., Washington, D. C.: Diary kept by Joseph K. Hoyt, Company (See New- DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS G, 45th Brigade, Illinois Volunteers, 1863 (204804). Emerson, Dr. A. E., Chicago, Ill.: 15 termites from Illinois (205708). Emerson, Lt. Col. K. C., Fort Leaven- worth, Kans.: 32 lice, including 10 paratypes, from Europe, South Asia, and Philippine Islands (203171). Emerson, William K., Berkeley, Calif.: 1 specimen of Gorgonian (203846). Emery, Charles E., Annapolis, Md.: 538 pictorial photographs by Charles EH. Emery for special exhibition March— April 1955 (205237, loan). Enders, Dr. Robert K., Swarthmore, Pa.: 23 mammals from Pakistan (202868) ; 269 mammals from vicinity of Jackson Hole, Wye. (202989) ; 31 rats from Saipan, Marianas Islands (202990). Engler, Arthur, Oakland, Calif.: 1 signed die proof of unofficial Santa Claus poster stamp (202446). Erdman, Donald S., Mayagiiez, Puerto Rico: (Through Isaac Ginsburg) 4 fishes collected near the mouth of Guajataca River, Puerto Rico (203290). Escuela Agricola Panamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras: 1 fern from Honduras (202449) ; 427 plants of Hon- duras (204108, exchange). Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologi- cas, México, D. F.: (Through Dr. José Alvarez) 6 paratype fishes (203160, ex- change). Estacao Agronomica Nacional, Saca- vém, Portugal: 97 plants of Portugal (205909, exchange). Estaci6én Experimental Agrondémica, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba: (Through Ing. de F. Zayas) 65 bugs from Cuba (203305) . Estes, Michael W., Washington, D. C.: Brazilian bow and 3 arrows and neck- lace (205898). Evans, Mark, Wallace, Idaho: 2 samples of heavy sands from California Creek, Idaho (202766). Evans, T. O. (See Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co.) Fabian, Dominick, Portland, Oreg.: 2 first-day covers (204192, 206496). 67 Fahrenbach, W. H., Berkeley, Calif. : 7 type copepods collected at Moss Beach, San Mateo County, Calif. (202019). Fairchild, Dr. Graham Bell, Monti- cello, Fla.: 29 flies, including paratypes of 9 species (206063). Fargo, William G., Jackson, Mich.: 75 paratype Pliocene Mollusca from Florida (202920). Farnworth, Ruth. Olcott, Inc.) Fassett, Norman C., Madison, Wis.: 1 four-eyed fish collected in Rio Desagiie, at Desagiie outlet of Lago de Giiija, El Salvador (203240). Faure, Dr. J. C. Entomology) Faust, Burton, Washington, D. C.: 18 land snails from Cathedral Caverns near Woodville, Ala., 20 earthworms, and 16 insects (202869). Ferguson, Dr. Edward, Jr., Orange- burg, S. C.: 5 type specimens of ostra- cods (205111). Ferguson, William E., Berkeley, Calif.: 3 wasps from North America (203018, exchange). Ferreyra, Dr. Ramén. (See Museo de Historia Natural “Javier Prado’’) Ferriere, Dr. Charles. (See Museum of Natural History) Fernandez-Yepez, Dr. F. (See Uni- versidad Central de Venezuela) Fessenden, G. Russell, Baltimore, Md.: 5 plants and 3 ferns from Mary- land (205431, 205910). Feth, J. H. (See Interior, U. S. De- partment of the, Geological Survey) Field, Dr. Henry, Coconut Grove, Fla.: 1 crab collected in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (202893) ; 16 plants collected in Wyoming (203368). Fisher, George B., Reading, Pa.: 13 fishes from aquaria (201400). Fisher, H. D. (See Atlantic Biologi- eal Station) Fitch, John E. (See California State Fisheries Laboratory) Fix, Ernest E., Susanville, Calif.: 1 scorpion from California (204801). Florida, State Board of Health of, Jacksonville, Fla.: (Through William (See Dodge and (See Division of 68 M. Beck, Jr.) 93 biting midge larvae from Florida (202609). Florida, State Plant Board of, Gaines- ville, Fla.: (Through Dr. H. A. Den- mark) 5 land snails from Dade County, Fla. (202722). Florida, University of, Gainesville, Fia.: (Through Dr. E. Lowe Pierce) 34 copepods from Florida (181772); (through Dr. Philip J. Westgate) land snail from Florida (203533). Florida Agricultural Supply Co., Jacksonville, Fla.: (Through Herman S. Mayeux) 10 land snails from near Jacksonville, Fla. (203353). Florida National Bank and Trust Co. (See Hall, Josephine V.) Floyd, G. Thomas, Akron, Ohio: 12 fresh-water mussels from Lake Hrie, Ottawa County, Ohio (203816). Fluke, Dr. C. L., Madison, Wis.: 9 flies, including 1 paratype, from North America and Argentina (205895). Ford, Clayton, Lakeport, N. H.: 1 specimen of herderite from Fietcher Mine, North Groton, N. H. (202918). Forest Research Institute, Kepong, Malaya: 59 plants from Federation of Malaya (203158, exchange). Fosberg, Dr. F. R., Falls Church, Va.: 61 plants from Shenandoah National Park, Va. (203774) ; 12 plants of United States and Canada (204452); 3 plants from Virginia (204551). Foshag, Dr. W. F., Washington, D. C.: Andesite lava specimen of 1952, Paricu- tin volcano, Michoacin, México (203768). Foster, Mrs. E. Carter, The Plains, Va.: Pair 18th-century white satin shoes; pair shoes, 2 pair hose, satin bodice, and pair white kid gloves, 19th century (202940). Foster, John H., Warwick, R. I.: 30 plants collected in India (202852). Fouts, Robert M., Laredo, Tex.: 4 parasitic wasps (205892). Fowler, Verna A., Salina, Kans.: 16 land snails from Salina (199972). Fox, John A., New York, N. Y.: 93 Specimens of postal history material (205561, exchange). U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Franklin, W. Neil. B. D.) Freed, Sam D., Union, N. J.: 111 land and fresh-water mollusks from northern New Jersey (203179). Freeman, Oliver M., Tryon, N. C.: 23 grasses from North Carolina (203749). Friedmann, Dr. Herbert, Washington, D. C.: 5 skins, 14 alcoholic specimens, and 5 skeletons of honey-guides from Spanish Guinea, collected by Georges Sabater (203367) ; 9 skeletons and 14 honey-guides (alcoholic birds) (204474). Frimerkjasalan, Reykjavik, Iceland: 6 Aerogramme forms (204190). (See also Iceland, Government of) Frisbey, Mrs. W. C., Port Isabel, Tex. : 2 marine mollusks from Port Isabel (205496). Frondel, Dr. Clifford. University ) Fundacion Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina: 170 plants of Brazil and Ar- gentina (204372, exchange). Furman, Deane P., Berkeley, Calif.: 2 types and 14 paratypes of mites from California (205999). (See also Cali- fornia, University of) Gallitelli, Dr. Eugenia Montanaro, Medena, Italy: 1 microsample from the Triassic St. Cassian beds of Italy (204878, exchange) ; 3 paratypes of a foraminifer from the Cretaceous of Italy and 22 foraminiferal samples from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Italy (205718). Ganier, Albert F., Nashville, Tenn.: Type of Appalachian sapsucker (204099). Gardner, Dr. Julia, Bethesda, Md.: Approximately 150 marine mollusks from Drum Point, Md. (205286). Gardner, Dr. T. R., Beltsville, Md.: 359 miscellaneous insects from Ha- waiian Islands and Japan (205099). Geduly, Prof. Oliver, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1 turtle from Rio Magdalena near Barranquilla, Colombia (203878). Geison, Mike, Miami, Fla.: 1 Hay’s snake from Florida (205016). General Electric Co., Richland, Wash., and Milwaukee, Wis.: (Through (See Gibbs, Mrs. (See Harvard DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS C. C. Palmiter) 17 samples of diatoms (203505) ; Model “A” electrocardiograph (205221). General Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich. : (Through C. L. MeCuen) Mechanical heart exhibit (2038312). Gentry, Dr. H. S. (See Agriculture, U. S. Department of, Horticultural Crops Research Branch) Geologisch-Palaontologisches Insti- tut, Tiibingen, Germany: (Through Dr. O. H. Schindewolf) 2 specimens of a rare Jurassic brachiopod from Ger- many (206511, exchange). George, Robert V., Towson, Md.: 45 pictorial photographs by Mr. George for special exhibition September—Octo- ber 1954 (203163, loan). Georgia, University of, Athens, Ga.: 155 plants (204450, exchange). Gerber, Adele (deceased) : (Through Amelie M. Gerber) 1 black Canton-crepe shawl worn by Sarah Fillmore Haton at inauguration of President Millard Fillmore in 1850, and photograph of Mrs. Eaton wearing the shawl (206500). Gerber, Amelie M. (See Gerber, Adele) Gerber, Carl B., Arlington, Va.: 1 rhodonite from 30 miles west, 15 miles north, of Lancaster, Calif. (203717) Germany, Republic of, Der Bundes- minister fur das post- und Fernmel- dewesen, Bonn: 4 postage stamps, air mail and commemorative (206361); 1 20-pfennig commemorative stamp for the “Association for the Encouragement of German Science” issued June 24, 1955 (206546). Ghika, George, Hyattsville, Md.: 5 geometrid moths from District of Co- lumbia area (202675). Gianotti, Agostino, Rome, Italy: 3 Foraminifera from Miocene of Italy (204738). Gibbs, Mrs. B. D., Knoxville, Tenn.: (Through W. Neil Franklin) 1924 Pres- idential campaign tag for automobile (203723). Gibbs, John, Washington, D. C.: 1 agate found in gravel bank, Washing- ton, D. C. (202700). 69 Giers, Dr. Rudolf, Hamm, Westfalen, (through E. W. Philleo) 1} Germany: 2 invertebrate fossils and 1 microsample of Foraminifera from Up- per Cretaceous of Westphalia, Germany (203196). Gill, Dr. Edmund D., Melbourne, Aus- tralia: 168 Miocene and Pliocene mol- lusks from Australia (195502, ex- change). Gilmore, Clifford E., Ft. Myer, Va.: 3 Burmese 1 Pya pieces, 1952 (202718). Gilmore, Dr. Raymond M. (See Smith, Robert O.) Ginsburg, Isaac. (See Stick, Frank, and Hrdman, Donald 8.) Glass, Jewell J. (See Interior, U. S. Department of the, Geological Survey) Glass, Robert. (See Clark, Col. Bu- gene S., Jr.) Goldich, Dr. S. S., Minneapolis, Minn.: Holotype of arthropod from Vennsylvanian of Brewster County, Tex. (204379). Goncalves, Dr. C. R. (See Divisio de Defesa Sanitaria Vegetal) Gonzales G., Dr. Alfonso, México, D. F.: 8 moths and 7 flies from México (205539). Gosline, Dr. William A. waii, University of) Gottfried, Oscar, New York, N. Y.: 2 ampins of normal saline solution man- ufactured by Strong Cobb Co., Ine. (203205). Goudey, Hatfield, Gabbs, Nev.: 1 cal- laghanite from Gabbs (203961, ex- change). Goudey, Hatfield, Gabbs, Nev., and Parnau, John L., Stockton, Calif.: 1 mineral trom Churchill Buttes, Lyon County, Nev. (203957). Gould, James, Washington, D. C.: (Through Dr. Arthur J. Boucot) Speci- men of tin ore from Sungei Liat Divi- sion of Tambang Timah Banka, Indo- nesia (2043898). Graham, Judge Samuel Jordan (de- ceased): (Through Mrs. Samuel J. Graham) 20 costume accessories of late 19th and 20th centuries (204484). Graham, Judge (deceased) and Mrs. Samuel Jordan, Washington, D. C.: 50 (See Ha- 70 items of period art and jewelry (206462). Grau, Gilbert, Hollywood, Calif.: 1 marine mollusk from New Zealand (202888). Graves, Mrs. Henry, Miami, Fla.: 1 calcite from near Miami (203977). Gray, Samuel, Woods Hole, Mass.. 8 squilla and 2 stomatopods from Yar- mouth, Mass. (202614). Great Britain, Government of: Board of Trade, Standards Department: Hassler balance, precision beam (201802). British Museum (Natural History), London: 31 mosquitoes, in- cluding 8 paratypes, from Ethiopia and Orient (202981, exchange) 634 Forami- nifera and 72 Recent foraminiferal samples from Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and Mediterranean Sea (203062, exchange) ; 7 Recent forami- niferal samples collected by Challenger Expedition from Atlantic and Pacific (203068, exchange) ; 391 plants from Malaysia (203324, 203509, exchange) ; 313 plants from various regions and collectors (2054388, 206478, exchange) ; (through P. F. Mattingly) 48 mosqui- toes, including 5 paratypes, from old world (203556, exchange); (through Dr. Norman B. Marshall) 1 paratype parrotfish from Red Sea (203590, ex- change). Greenwood, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M., Marlborough, Mass.: Frame house built in 1678 in Malden, Mass. (203905). Gregg, Dr. Robert E., Boulder, Colo.: 6 paratypes of ants (205709). Griffith, Dr. Ivor. (See Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science) Griffiths, Prof. Henry J. (See Min- nesota, University of) Gross, Paul J., Okmulgee, Okla.: 2 first-day cards, Kansas Territorial and 4-cent airmail (204893). Guam, Gevernment of, Office of Terri- tories, Agana: (Through George D. Peterson, Jr.) 2 house mice from Guam (205521). Gudmundsson, Finnur. seum of Natural History) Guiler, Dr. Eric R., Belfast, Ireland: 5 copepods, 2 isopods, 15 amphipods, 15 (See Mu- U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 porcellanids, 2 hermit crabs, 28 crabs, and 2 polychaetes (205675). Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Miss.: (Through Dr. J. KF. Walker) 61 miscellaneous marine invertebrates (183865); (through Dr. John FE. Howell) 12 crustaceans (208149). Gutschick, Dr. R. C., Notre Dame, Ind.: 51 fossil sponge spicules and holo- thurian plates (201697). Guyer, Dr. Gordon, East Lansing, Mich.: 79 aquatic midges from Michi- gan (205278). H and R Worm Farm, Muskogee, Okla.: (Through Vera Rounds) 20 earthworms (201457). Hagn, Dr. H., Munich, Germany: 5 microsamples Foraminifera from Ter- tiary and Cretaceous of SBavaria (198841, exchange); 8 Foraminifera from the Hocene of Germany and Italy (208718, 205558, exchange); 9 micro- samples from Hocene of Bavaria and Miocene of Austria, and 105 Foraminif- era from Tertiary of Italy and Creta- ceous of Italy (204470, exchange). Hall, Josephine V.: (Through the Florida National Bank and Trust Com- pany) 2 ancient Greek ‘tear bottles,” 4 carved shell plaques, and an antique box with ancient coins (2026380, be- quest). Hallman, Roy C., Panama City, Fla.: 1 hummingbird and 1 sparrow (205418). Halstead, Dr. Bruce W. (See School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine) Hamelly, Henry, Grove City, Pa.: 22 first-day covers and other philatelic specimens (204384, 206548) ; 2 first-day eovers, Canada Boswell and Canada Thompson stamps (205102); 5 United States and United Nations first-day covers (205563); 2 Canadian and 2 United Nations first-day covers (206378). Hamilton, Dr. William J., Jr., Ithaca, N. Y.: 2 short-tailed shrews from Flor- ida (205010). (See also Cornell Uni- versity) Handley, C. O., Charleston, W. Va.: 8 mammals from West Virginia (206449). DONORS Hanes, Clarence R., Schoolcraft, Mich.: 3 grasses from Michigan (203621). Haque, A. F. M. Mohsenul, Aberyst- wyth, Wales: 50 Paleocene Foramini- fera and 8 microsamples from Paleocene of Pakistan (203072) ; 70 Paleocene and Lower Hocene Foraminifera from Nam- mal Gorge, Salt Range, Pakistan (208551, exchange); 31 Foraminifera from the Tertiary of Pakistan (203771, exchange). Hardy, Jerry D., Jr., Elon College, N. C.: 2 bats from Cuba (204227) ; in- sects, 1 leech, and 3 mollusks (204405) ; collection of reptiles, amphibians, and fish, from Cuba (204500). Harkness, Norris, New York, N. Y.:1 United States first-day cover, 3-cent George Eastman stamp (205611). Harlan, Mrs. John G., Jr., Bethesda, Md.: 1 scarlet tanager (204881). Harlow, J. A., Janesville, Wis.: Sioux Indian blanket band decorated in bead- work (2053857). Harper, Dr. Francis, Mount Holly, N. J.: Jumping mouse from New Jersey (203335) ; 37 bird skins, 1 set of eggs, and 69 mammals from Ungava, Canada (205601). Harrington, Dr. John P., Washington, D. C.: 1 feathered staff, Chiricahua Apache Indian (206466). Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Clare, Rushford, N. Y.: 1 United States flag, 1877-1880 (205007). Harry, Dr. Harold W. (See Tropical Research Medical Laboratory) Hartman, Dr. Frank A., Columbus, Ohio: 288 bird skins from Panama (202710). Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.: (Through Dr. Clifford Frondel) 5 mineral specimens (203591, ex- change); (through E. O. Wilson) 32 ants, including 26 types, from North America (203728). Gray Herbarium: 4 plants from South America (198996). Museum of Comparative Zoology: (Through Dr. W. L. Brown) 47 ants from Neotropical region (201705); 44 ants from Australia, New Guinea, and North and South America (202986, TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS 71 205501, 205682); 18 New Caledonian ants (205711) ; (through Dr. Elisabeth Deichmann) 10 gorgonians from Ber- muda (202894); (through Dr. F. M. Carpenter and Dr. P. J. Darlington) 11 spongilla flies, including types, from South America and British Quiana (203529); (through Dr. William J. Clenech) 1,112 mollusks, mainly land and fresh-water forms, from the Chat- tahoochee River, Fla. (205492) ; 1 ma- rine mollusk from Senegal (204541, ex- change). Haskins, Caryl P. Laboratories) Haskins Laboratories, New York, N. Y.: (Through Caryl P. Haskins) 5 fishes from Trinidad (202824). Hattori Botanical Laboratory, Nichi- nan, Japan: 100 cryptogams from Japan (203900, exchange). Hattrick, E. N., and Burkhart, J., Washington, D. C.: 48 marine mollusks from Sea Isle City, N. J. (203375). Hawaii, University of, Honolulu: 17 plants collected in Hawaii and 20 culti- vated plants (203510, 204609) ; (through John EH. Randall,) 1,813 fishes from Gil- bert Islands and other areas, mostly col- lected by Mr. Randall (195399) ; (through Dr. William A. Gosline) 26 Silver hatchet fishes from collection of Mauna Loa lava flow of 1950 (204472) ; (through Dr. Jan Newhouse) 43 speci- mens of blue-green algae from Tuamotu Archipelago (205717). Hayes, Doris. (See Agriculture, U. S. Department of) Haynes, George R., Greensburg, Pa.: 2 glass structural tiles with photo- graphic impressions (205899). Haynes, J. R., Aberystwyth, Wales: 10 Foraminifera from Tertiary of Eng- land (203193, exchange). Hazeltine Corporation, Little Neck, N. Y.: (Through L. B. Dodds) 6 early radio receivers (204116). Health, Education, and Welfare, U.S. Department of, Washington, D. C.: Public Health Service: (Through Dr. H. R. Dodge) 50 North and South Amer- ican sarcophagid flies, including types (206071); (through Dr. Harry D. (See Haskins 72 Pratt) 5 type biting midges from United States (202607); (through Dr. W. L. Jellison) 5 bot fly larvae taken from moose in Montana (202861) ; 42 insects, 8 spiders, 1 scorpion, and 1 leech from Idaho, Assam, Burma, and China (202899) ; 2 land snails from Hamilton, Mont. (203180, 208352); 1 bat from Montana (203499). Arctic Health Re- search Center, Anchorage, Alaska: (Through Dr. Robert Rausch) 25 fox skulls from St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea (202830); 4 crabs and 2 shrimps from Alaska (203625); 1 horse crab from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska (204165) ; (through Dr. Laurence Ir- ving) 14 bird skins from Northern Alaska (203048). National Institutes of Health: (Through Dr. W. H. Wright) 9,003 flies, including paratypes, from Guatemala (203598). (See also Cre- celius, Dr. H. Gilbert) Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Is- rael: 100 plants (204889, exchange). Heinemann, C. B., Washington, D. C.: Record-o-phone dictation machine (205531). Heinmuller, John P. V., New York, N. Y.: 5,856 United States and Philip- pine Islands stamps in a National album (204477). Heinrich, Clara, Washington, D. C.: Brain of Carl Heinrich, entomologist (206521). Heintzelman, Arthur W. ton Public Library) Helgerson, Henry, Missoula, Mont.: One black bear from Butlers Creek, Mis- soula County, Mont. (205520). Hendey Machine Company, Inc., Tor- rington, Conn.: (Through A. D. Patter- son) Steam engine, rotary, constructed by Henry J. Hendey about 1870 to power tools in his shop (203480). Hendricks, Genevieve, Washington, D. C.: 1 pair walrus tusks (203132). Henny, Keith, New York, N. Y.: 2 electronic devices (204100). Henry, Dr. Dora P., Seattle, Wash. : 1 crab from Lower California, E. F. Ricketts collection, and 7 mollusks (204872). (See Bos- U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Hepner, A., Washington, D. C.: 1 pa- per 25-cent fractional currency, 1st is- sue, dated 1863 (206367). Herbario “Barbosa Rodrigues,” Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil: 588 plants from Santa Catarina (203017) ; 23 plants collected by Raulino Reitz (203056). Hermann, Dr. Frederick J., Beltsville, Md.: 225 plants from Michigan and Indiana (205428). Herrmann, Mary Ann, Washington, D. C.: 25 woodcuts by Paul Heinrich Ebell for exhibition October 1954 (203523, loan). Hewatt, Dr. Willis G. (See Texas Christian University, and Magnolia Field Research Laboratory) Heyl, Allen V., Takoma Park, Md.: 1 ealcite from Calumet and Hecla mine, Lafayette County, Wis. (204729). Hild, Mrs. G. S., Washington, D. C.: 4 mounted heads and 7 frontlets of Philippine mammals collected by David W. Fry (203532). Hildebrand, Henry, Port Aransas, Tex.: 74 marine invertebrates and 5 mollusks from México and Texas (201788). Hill, Bernard L., New Orleans, La.: 10 type ostracodes from Tertiary of Mississippi and Cretaceous of Texas (204788). Hill, Dr. Howard R., Los Angeles, Calif.: 98 land snails from western United States (203386). Hill, Lt. Col. Samuel O. (See De- fense, U. S. Department of, Department of the Army) Hiltermann, Dr. H., Hannover, Ger- many: 12 Foraminifera from the Ter- tiary of Northern Germany (203129) ; 15 Foraminifera from the Tertiary of Germany (203197, exchange). Hinton, Dr. J. William, New York, N. Y.: 28 colored scenes of Civil War battles (204114). Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: 18th-century balance made by Pat Lyon (204610, loan). Hobbs, Dr. Horton H., Jr., Charlottes- ville, Va.: 8 types of crayfish (203579). DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Hodziewicz, Stanley, Hyattsville, Md.: 6 philatelic specimens (204478). Hoehne, Dr. F. C., Sio Paulo, Brazil: 8 specimens of plants (205604). Hoes, Laurence Gouverneur, Fred- ericksburg, Va.: 2 plates of the Monroe administration china used in the White House (206491, loan). Hoffman, Dr. Glenn L., Grand Forks, N. Dak.: 16 fresh-water clams from North Dakota (204406). Hoffman, Richard L., Blacksburg, Va.: 119 reptiles and amphibians from Vir- ginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Kentucky, including types of new subspecies of racerunner lizard from Virginia (202724); 375 specimens of fresh-water mollusks, also fresh-water amphipods, all from Virginia (202910) ; 6 scorpion flies and 2 brown lace-wings from Virginia (206060). Hofker, Dr. J., The Hague, Nether- lands: 3 Recent Foraminifera from the Bay of Naples, Italy (203550) ; 9 For- aminifera from Lower Cretaceous of Holland (204471, exchange). Hogan, Mrs. George W., Jr.. Mc- Leansboro, Ill.: 1 ladies’ handkerchief printed with stamp motifs (204167). Hoglund, Dr. Hans, Lysekil, Sweden: 4 paratype Foraminifera from the Re- cent of Sweden (2038555). Holderer, George B., Washington, D. C.: 3 specimens of manganese ore from Brazil (205282). Holling, Henry, Slick Rock, Colo.: (Through Omer Raup) 20 specimens uranium ore from Cougar mine, Slick Rock Canyon, San Miguel County, Colo. (204186). Hollman, Karl H., New York, N. Y.: 1 Netherlands first-day cover (204898). Holthuis, Dr. L. B. (See Rijksmu- seum van Natuurlijke Historie) Homan, B. H., Jr., New York, N. Y.: 2 albums containing 1110 postal issues of the Transvaal, 1869-1883 (204386). Honess, Dr. Ralph F. (See Wyo- ming, University of): Hong Kong, University of, China: (Through Dr. David Barker) 2 mam- mals, 8 reptiles and amphibians, 2 mol- 73 lusks, and 8 invertebrates from Hong Kong (196144, exchange). Hood, James R., Chattanooga, Tenn. : 65 fresh-water mollusks from Elk River, Tenn. (203796, exchange) ; 205 marine mollusks from the South Pacific and from Trinidad, B. W. I. (204974, ex- change). Hoogstraal, Dr. Harry, Cairo, Egypt: 1 type specimen of tick (205408). Hoopes, Mrs. W. H., Washington, D. C.: 19 specimens of furniture, china, stockings and other costume accessories of 19th century (203959). Hoover, Mrs. Herbert, Jr., Washing- ton, D. C.: 1 blue and white Chinese porcelain vase (206499, loan) ; 2 fans that belonged to Mrs. Herbert Hoover, First Lady of the White House, 1929- 1933 (206543). Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, Calif.: (Through Julius B. Phil- lips) 1 fish from off Pigeon Point, Calif. (202993, exchange) ; (through Dr. Don- ald P. Abbott) 148 marine invertebrates from the collection of Dr. W. K. Fisher (203496). Hottes, Dr. F. C., Grand Junction, Colo.: 10 slides of thrips, including 3 holotypes (203281). Howard, Col. John K., South Hamil- ton, Mass.: 8 fishes taken from a marlin east of Durban Harbor, Natal, South Africa (205273) ; (through Gilbert L. Voss) 150 marine invertebrates, 66 echinoderms, mollusks, and 6 fishes, collected on expedition to Great Barrier Reef, Australia, in 1953 (203245). Howden, Dr. Henry F., Knoxville, Tenn.: 8 beetles from United States (2028638). Howell, Dr. John F. Research Laboratory) Hubbard, Dr. C. Andresen, Tigard, Oreg.: 57 fleas from Oregon (205599). Hubbell, Edith S., Warrenton, Va.: Notebook of drawings by a Southern Plains Indian collected by donor’s father, the late Gen. Henry W. Hubbell, between 1869-1876 (203386). Hubbs, Dr. Clark. (See Texas, Uni- versity of) (See Gulf Coast 74 Hubert, Lt. Alexander A., APO, San Francisco, Calif.: 142 flies, 10 butter- flies, 1 mayfly, and 8 stonefiies from Korea (204885). Hudson, Dr. George E. ington, State College of) Hummelinck, Dr. P. Wagenaar, Utrecht, Netherlands: 5 beetles from Caribbean Islands (1938780). Hummer, Mrs. Nellie Blake Henry, Macedon, N. Y.: Original cloth coffee bag and coffee, and original leather sugar bag and sugar issued during the Civil War to Byron Simeon Blake (206541). Humphrey, Dr. Fred L., Stanford, Calif.: (Through Dr. Walter L. Young- quist and Dr. Siemon W. Muller) 6 type Mississippian Goniatites from Nevada (208300). Humphrey, Dr. William, México, D. F.: 2 microsamples Foraminifera from Lower Cretaceous of México (204874). Hungary, Government of: (Through Hungarian Hmbassy) 52 assorted, used, Hungarian stamps (206365). Hurd, Dr. Paul D., Jr. fornia, University of) Husak, Jerome, Milwaukee, Wis.: 1 cacheted envelope (204481). Hussey, Dr. Keith M., Ames, Iowa: 5 foraminifers from Eocene of Louisiana (206356). Iceland, Government of, Reykjavik: (Through Frimerkjasalan) 4 philatelic specimens of Iceland (204618). Illg, Dr. Paul L., Seattle, Wash.: 4 specimens of octocoral (205112). Illinois, University of, Urbana, II1., Museum of Natural History: (Through Dr. Hobart M. Smith) 1 paratype of a lizard from La Gloria, Oaxaca, México (203004). Illinois Natural History Survey Divi- sion, Urbana, Ill.: (Through Dr. Lewis J. Stannard) 4 thrips, including 2 para- types, from Illinois (202608, exchange). India, Geological Survey of, Calcutta: (Through Dr. M.S. Krishman) 12 Fora- minifera from Hocene of India (199816, exchange). Ingeloff, Thorsten, Karlstad, Sweden: 41 envelopes bearing commemorative (See Wash- (See Cali- U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Swedish postal markings (204264); 3 Swedish covers (205607) ; 13 envelopes with special Swedish cancel (206360, 206536). Ingram, W. F., Griffin, Ga.: 33 cut tourmalines from Brazil (205934). Inigo, Félix. (See Puerto Rico, Com- monwealth of) Institute for Plant Diseases, Bogor, Indonesia: 3 bugs (205001). Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Ja- maica: Science Museum: 149 plants collected in Jamaica by G. R. Proctor (203114, gift-exchange) ; 18 plants col- lected in West Indies by George R. Proctor (204666) ; 107 plants from Ja- maica (205608, exchange). Instituto Agrondémico do Norte, Belém, Parad, Brazil: 9 plants collected in Brazil (202698). Instituto Agronémico do Sul, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: 62 grasses from Brazil (202762, 2038967, 206468) ; 28 plants from Brazil (204163). Instituto Botanico, Caracas, Vene- zuela: 6 Venezuelan ferns (200491). Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Bra- zil: (Through Dr. Aristoteris T. Leao) 2 toads from Goids and Mato Grosso, Brazil (204283). Instituto de Biologia, México, D. F.: 1 grass from México (204723). Instituto de Botanica, Sado Paulo, Brazil: 7 plants from Brazil (203288, 204553). Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bo- gota, Colombia: 26 plants and 1 grass from Colombia (203055, 203548, 204888, 206478, 206479) ; 125 plants collected in Colombia by Dr. Hernando Garcia-Bar- riga (208724) ; 246 plants collected in Colombia (204458, exchange) ; 28 plants of Colombia (204605, gift-exchange). Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Central, Quito, Heuador: (Through Gustavo Orcés V.) 477 fresh- water fishes from Ecuador (1993384, ex- change). Instituto Geobiologico “La Salle” de Candas, Porto Alegra, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: 54 plants from Brazil (204112, 205905, exchange). DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Instituto Mexicano de Recursos Nat- urales Renovables, México, D. F.: (Through Dr. Jorge Carranza) 3 cat- fishes from well in the State of Coa- huila, México (205516, exchange). Interior, U. S. Department of the, Washington, D. C.: Fish and Wildlife Service: 8 plants from Texas and New Mexico (203765) ; 21 sheets of migra- tory bird hunting stamps, 1934-1954 (205721); 156 mammals (206446) ; (through Gustaf T. Sundstrom) 844 fishes collected in Gulf of Mexico during August and September 1954 by Mr. Sundstrom on the M/V Oregon (202653) ; (through Stewart Springer) 1,019 miscellaneous marine inverte- brates, 9 echinoderms, 18 mollusks, 2 corals, and 18 microsample foram- inifers collected by the M/V Oregon in the Gulf of Mexico (202732); 12 microsamples for Foraminifera from Recent of Gulf of Mexico (204547); (through Oscar H. Sette) 4 surgeonfishes from Pacific Ocean (202833) ; (through Dr. A. L. Nelson) 4 holotypes of flies (202859) ; (through George C. Miller) 983 fishes, also crus- taceans, 1 starfish, and 700 mollusks, collected by Mr. Miller in Liberia, 1952- 1954 (202912) ; (through John W. Ald- rich) 2 nematodes (202988) ; (through Roland L. Wigley) 4 amphipods from Woods Hole harbor (203872) ; (through Stewart Springer and Harvey Bullis, Jr.) 982 fishes from Gulf of Mexico (204890) ; (through California Acad- emy of Sciences) 367 mollusks from the northern and eastern Pacific Ocean, col- lected by the U. S. S. Albatross (205222) ; (through Clark P. Salyer) 4 bisons from National Bison Range, Mont. (205701); (through Oscar H. Sette and Joseph EH. King) 8 fishes col- lected by the Pacific Oceanic Fishery Investigations in the central Pacific (206054). Geological Survey: 10 min- erals: montrosite and hummerite from Colorado, navajoite from Arizona, and sahamalite from California (2025388) ; soil samples from caves at Trail Creek, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, collected by David M. Hopkins and Dr. Helge Lar- 75 sen in 1948 (202550); 395 rocks and ores from James River-Roanoke River manganese district, Virginia, and South- eastern States (202746) ; 3 specimens of analyzed lavas from Mauna Loa and Kilauea Voleanos (203023) ; 279 slides of Cretaceous, Triassic, and Jurassic Foraminifera from South Dakota, Wyo- ming, Montana, and northern Alaska (208126, 203293, 208372) ; 26 Pleistocene Foraminifera from Long Island, N. Y. (203127) ; 7 brachiopods from well core AC-51-2, Williams County, N. Dak. (208238) ; 180 rock and mineral speci- mens described by P. B. King (203239) ; 13,150 well samples and 951 surface samples of rock from Montana (203296) ; 1,860 plants from Alaska (203354) ; 1 uraninite from Monument No. 2 Mine, Apache County, Ariz. (203429) ; 3 Specimens and 2 casts of fossil invertebrates from Yorktown for- mation of Virginia (203547); 2 speci- mens of ferruginous conglomerate from Texas (208548); 6 plants collected in Utah and Nevada by Robert R. Coats (203620) ; 1483 slides of Foraminifera types from Recent of Florida (203725) ; 5 specimens zine-lead ore regional col- lection of Manning Area, Orleans County, N. Y. (203980); 1,105 plants collected in Micronesia by F. R. Fos- berg (204460); 100 fresh-water mol- lusks from California, and 7 Carbonif- erous gastropods (204854); 5 land snails from Alaska and 35 fresh-water mollusks from Montana (205517, 205518) ; (through Jewell J. Glass) 5 specimens of Irish Creek tin deposits, and 1 fluorescent sodalite and hack- manite from Magnet Cove, Ark. (203026) ; (through J. H. Feth) 35 land and fresh-water mollusks from Utah (208252); (through Dr. Preston H. Cloud, Jr.) lower jaw, associated bones, and scales of fossil teleost fish, col- lected by Messrs. Van Horn, Scott, and Cobban in Upper Cretaceous Pierre shale formation, Jefferson County, Colo. (203348) ; 19 fresh-water mollusks from Alaska (203418) ; palate of fossil por- poise from Lower Pliocene Bone Valley formation at Noralyn Mine, near Bar- 76 tow, Polk County, Fla. (2038520); 28 Slides containing type and figured speci- mens of 36 Radiolaria ; 14 holotypes and 3 plesiotypes of discoasters and related organisms (203553) ; (through Dr. Gil- bert Corwin) 588 land and marine mol- lusks, and insects from Pagan Island, Marianas Islands (2043738). National Park Service: (Through Floyd L. Kel- ler) 48 ant lions and lace-wing flies from California (198348); (through Victor H. Cahalane) 2 fresh-water mol- lusks from Alaska (204549). (See also Robin, Art) International Ryukyu Stamp and Coin Society, Los Angeles, Calif.: (Through J. N. Wong) 385 Ryukyu Islands postage and airmail stamps (202856). Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa: (Through Dr. W. J. Zimmermann) 2 species of nematodes (204226). Iraq Ministry of Agriculture, Bagh- dad: 2,361 plants of Iraq collected by Dr. Ali Al-Rawi and associates (205542, exchange). Irving, Dr. Laurence. (See Health, Education, and Welfare, U. 8. Depart- ment of, Arctic Health Research Center) Irving, Robert B., Gooding, Idaho: Approximately 153 marine inverte- brates, also mollusks from MHenry’s Lake, Idaho (1960382). Irwin, H. S., Subryanville, British Guiana: 297 plants from British Guiana (202668, 204136, 205549, 205993). Israel, Government of, Geological In- stitute, Jerusalem: (Through Dr. Z. Reiss) 161 Foraminifera from Creta- ceous and Tertiary of Israel (203162, exchange). Jackson, Ralph W., Cambridge, Md.: 62 National Teat Fire cartridges, .32 caliber (202858). Jacobson, Morris K.. Rockaway Beach, N. Y.: 22 mollusks from New York and Cuba (206556). Jagellonian University, Herbarium of the Botanical Garden, Cracow, Poland: 50 specimens of bryophytes (206477, exchange). U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Jago, John B., San Francisco, Calif. : 3 minerals from San Benito County, Calif., Madagascar, and Uganda (203982, exchange) ; 1 mineral, betafite, from Madagascar (205557). James, Incorporated, Louisville, Ky. : (Through D. W. and L. R. Karp) Gen- eral Robert E. Lee nickel-silver medal dated 1807-1870 (203801). James, Dr. Maurice T. ington, State College of) Jameson, Prof. E. W., Jr.: 3 fleas and 2 chiggers from California (206572). Jamnback, Dr. Hugo. (See New York State Museum) Japan, Laboratory of the Imperial Household, Tokyo: 12 samples of Octo- corallia from the Imperial collection of the Hmperor of Japan (201561). Japan Seciety, Inc., New York, N. Y.: 60 block prints by Yoshida family lent for exhibition November 1954 (203895, loan). Jardin Botanique de l’Etat, Brussels, Belgium: 39 phanerogams and 41 grasses from the Belgian Congo (206350, exchange). Jellison, Dr. William L. (See Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of, Public Health Service) Jennings, Dr. Jesse D., Salt Lake City, Utah: (Through Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr.) Willow splint figurine of quadruped (204370). Jiménez, Dr. José de Js., Santiago de Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic: 182 plants from Dominican Republic (208051, 204898). Jodidi, Mrs. Elizabeth R. (deceased) : (Through Melville W. Stuart) 1 neck- lace of gold beads with topaz pendant; 2 lidded porcelain Meissen vases; 1 sil- ver crutch-handled ebony cane (205868, bequest). Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Md.: (Through Dr. John J. Christian) 5 deer from James Island, Md. (206559). Johns-Manville Corp., Washington, D. C.: 5 pieces of asbestos materials (203978). (See Wash- DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Johnson, Dr. Donald R., Washington, D. C.: 215 miscellaneous insects from Indonesia (206057). Johnson, Joe C., Bryan, Tex. : 6 plants from Texas (204555). Johnson, Phyllis T. (See Defense, Department of, Department of the Army, Army Medical Service Graduate School, Washington, D. C.) Johnson, Mrs. Robert C., Jr. Perkins, Sibyl Avery) Johnson and Johnson, New Bruns- wick, N. J.: 1 exhibit entitled “Binding Up a Wound” showing surgical dress- ings from prehistoric times to the bandage of today, and featuring a band- aged 1500-year-old Peruvian skull (206453). Johnston, Dr. Franklin D. Michigan, University of) Johnstone, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Inge, Mobile, Ala.: 29 marine mollusks from off the coast of Mississippi and Florida (202991). Johnstone, Mrs. Harry Inge, Mobile, Ala.: 100 marine mollusks from Gulf eoast of Alabama (205015). Jokelson, Paul, New York, N. Y.: 6 sulphide paper weights containing por- traits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Robert EK. Lee, made by Baccarat, 1954 (202922, 203986, 206482). Jones, Dr. J. J.. La Plata, Md.: Hog- nose snake from Charlotte Hall, Md., collected by donor (201599). Jones, Lt. J. Knox, Jr. (See Defense, Department of, Depariment of the Army) Jones, Mrs. Joyce H. University of) Jones, Robert H., Madison, Wis. : 129 biting midges and 116 mosquitoes from Wisconsin (205277, 206069). Jones, Warren R., Erongaricuaro, México: 5 minerals from México, and sublimates from Paricutin volcano (2003883). Julius Roehrs Company, Rutherford, N. J.: 1 cultivated fern (204059). Juilliard School of Music, New York, N. Y.: (Through Charles Bestor) 1 (See (See (See Michigan, Ri piano made by A. Babcock, Boston, be- tween 1822 and 1829 (205595, loan). Junge, Dr. Carlos, Concepcion, Chile: 2 land mollusks from Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic (204886). Kagoshima University, Kyusyu, Ja- pan: 450 plants of Japan and Ryukyu Islands (204807, exchange). Kainen, Jacob, Washington, D. C.: 1 three-color letterpress halftone ‘“Yosem- ite,’ from a photograph, published in 1899 by the Detroit Photographic Com- pany (205416); 1 color woodcut, “Tiger,” by Jacob Pins (205982). Kannowski, Paul B., Ann Arbor, Mich. : 84 ants from Michigan (205997). Kansas, University of, Lawrence, Kans. : 50 plants from México (2029038) ; 3 plants (205908). Karp, D. W. and L. R. (See James, Incorporated) Kaufman, Dean K. L. (See Butler University ) Kausel, Dr. Eberhard, Santiago, Chile: 16 plants collected in Chile (202697, exchange). Keen, Dr. A. Myra, Stanford, Calif. : 7 paratypes of Cretaceous and Cenozoic ecardiid pelecypods from Washington, New Caledonia, and Japan (204774). Keenan, Charles M. (See Defense, Department of, Department of the Army.) Keller, L. Floyd. (See Interior, U. S. Department of the, National Park Service) Keller, Dr. Mark, New Haven, Conn.: 2 nematomorphs (202748). Kellogg, Dr. Remington, Washington, D. C.: Section of Japanese whaling har- poon forerunner, acquired by donor in Japan (202870); 1 meter marking of Canada including frank of G. R. Clark, Deputy Minister of Fisheries (206502). Kelton, L. A., Ottawa, Canada: 130 plant bugs from Canada and the United States (205894). Kernodle, George, Washington, D. C.: Shell necklace on cotton string base from Perti (202975). Kettle, Dr. D. S., Hdinburgh, Scot- land: 9 paratype mosquitoes from Scot- land (201472). is Kezer, Dr. James, Colombia, Mo.: 58 western newts of 2 different subspecies from Crater Lake National Park, Oreg. (202966). Khan, Dr. M. H., Quetta, Pakistan: 46 Permian brachiopods from Salt Range of India (203519, exchange). Killip, E. P., Washington, D. C.: 1 marine mollusk from Florida, 6 marine invertebrates (204717). Kimball, Charles P., Sarasota, Fla.: 7 moths from Florida and New Hngland (205280). King, Clyde B., Chillicothe, Ohio: 26 fresh-water mollusks from Michigan and Ohio (203852). King, Joseph E. (See Interior, De- partment of the, Fish and Wildlife Service) King, Dr. Willard V., Fort Lauder- dale, Fla.: 6,247 mosquitoes from Phil- ippine Islands (202702). King Ranch, Kingsville, grasses from Texas (203325). Kingdom, George D., Conneaut, Ohio: 1 postcard bearing a 4cent airmail stamp cancelled Sept. 3, 1954 (205578) ; 1 oversized postcard first day 4-cent U. 8S. airmail stamp (205615). Kinghorne, Mrs. Edna Mae Sibley, Washington, D. C.: Silk dress, ca. 1858 ; 2 pair undersleeves ; gold brooch, owned by Angeline Sibley, and print of photo- graph showing her wearing the dress and brooch (202855) ; 2 pieces late 19th- century needlework, and 1 fillet crochet centerpiece (203513). Kingsley, Prof. Louise, Wellesley, Mass.: (Through Dr. Arthur Boucot) 1 Paleozoic coral from metamorphic rocks of Skitchewaug Mountain, Clare- mont Quadrangle, Vt. (203729). Kirk, Dr. Edwin, Washington, D. C.: 8 archeological specimens from Neo- lithic of Switzerland and Denmark (204602). Klages, Edward A., Crafton, Pa.: 6 bird skins (203385). Klett, George, and Conklin, James E., Beeville, Tex.: Skull of fossil saber- tooth tiger, and tooth of horse, collected by Mr. Klett in 1949 from Pleistocene Tex.: 2 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Juana Maria Planes Survey on banks of Medio Creek, near Beeville, Tex. (204118). Knepton, James C., Jr., Macon, Ga.: One chipmunk from Georgia (205487). Knight, Joseph LeRoy, Wilmington, Del.: 1 model bomb ketch, European, 18th century (206539). Knipscheer, Dr. H. C. G., Miinchen, Germany: 1 microsample of the Ceno- manian of Bavaria (203128). Knull, J. N., Columbus, Ohio: 27 beetles from Ohio (206030). Koch, Dr. Leo F., New Orleans, La.: 22 mosses from California and Oregon (204668, exchange). Kormilevy, Dr. Nicholas A., Buenos Aires, Argentina: 29 bugs from Argen- tina, Brazil, and Chile (203373, ex- change). Kozloff, Eugene, N., Chapel Hill, N. C.: 94 land and marine mollusks from Florida (200995). Kraft, Mrs. Lucy, Washington, D. C.: Sampler dated 1834 (203514). Krauss, Dr. N. L. H., Veracruz, Méx- ico: 1 plant from México (206560). Krauss, Noel, Honolulu, T. H.: 99 miscellaneous insects from México and Arizona (204849). Kremers Urban Co. Milwaukee, Wis.: (Through Jack T. Claney) 25- gallon copper pereolator equipped with cover and inside disc (203202). Krishman, Dr. M. S. (See India, Geological Survey of) Krombein, Karl V., Arlington, Va.: 195 miscellaneous insects from Kill Devil Hills, N. C. (202865) ; 6 wasps, including 4 paratypes, from North America (2038527) ; 8364 wasps with asso- ciated prey and parasites from North Carolina (203528). Krombein, Dr. Louis H., Derby, N. Y.: 328 miscellaneous insects from Florida (2082382). Kugler, H. G., Trinidad, B. W. I.: 7 fossil ‘“‘bilobites’” from Point-a-Pierre, Trinidad, B. W. I. (205941). Kunkle, Donald E., Bloomfield, N. J.: 11 marine mollusks from Marco Beach, Fla. (2038210). DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Kuntz, Lt. Comdr. Robert E. (See Defense, U. S. Department of, Depari- ment of the Navy) Kutter, Dr. H., Flawil, St. Gallen, Switzerland: 120 ants, including 8 co- types, from Europe (202985, exchange). Laboratorias Cosmos S. A., Caracas, Venezuela: (Through Dr. Victor M. Marquez) 4 marine mollusks from Ven- ezuela (204961). LaGanke, Nelson P., Cleveland, Ohio: 1 National Cash Register meter mark- ing and 2 Pitney-Bowes meter markings (205620); 1 envelope face bearing meter markings, Columbus, Ohio (206494). Lambie, Margaret, Washington, D. C.: 16 prints by Napoleon Sarony, C. M. Bell, Abraham Bogardus, Matthew B. Brady, Richardson, and George Rock- wood (205891). (See also Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. A. Donaldson) Lamm, Donald W., Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa: 66 bird skins from Mo- zambique (204194). Landis, Martin A., Greencastle, Pa.: (Through National Zoological Park) 1 fish, lamprey, from Potomac River (206346). Lane, Dr. John, Sio Paulo, Brazil: 8 fungus gnats from Brazil (205538). Lang, Dr. Karl, Stockholm, Sweden: 47 copepods (184730, exchange). Latham, Meneva S., Palm City, Calif.: Linen curtain crocheted in 1900 by mother of donor (204428). Latham, Roy, Orient, N. Y.: 33 grasses from New York (202625, 204594) ; 4 slugs and 6 land mollusks from Long Island, N. Y. (203244, 204344). Laurent, John, Ogunquit, Maine: 22 prints in various media by John Lau- rent for special exhibition March 28- May 29, 1955 (205523, loan). Lawalrée, André, Auderghem, Bel- gium: 45 ferns (204373, exchange). Lawson, Ethel M., Washington, D. C.: 5 necklaces and other items of bead- work from the Puyallup Indians; 1 beaded evening bag; 2 ruffled and lace- trimmed nightgowns; and 1 chenille eotton table cover (203573).- 859492—55-——7 79 Lawson, Walter J., Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa: 2 nestling birds in alcohol and 2 sets of eggs, from Natal (202709). Lawton, Dr. Elva, New York, N. Y.: 70 bryophytes (205718). Leao, Dr. Aristoteris T. tuto Butantan) Learnard, R. A., Washington, D. C.: 2 Mearns and 1 Asiastic quail, 1 bare- throated francolin (203971, 205415). Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wis.: Ship model of Great Lakes self-unloading bulk-cargo vessel (201628). Lee, Wellington, New York, N. Y.: 40 pictorial prints for exhibition January— February 1955 (204489, loan). Leech, Gordon, Washington, D. C.: 1 moufion (203600). Leech, Dr. Hugh B. Academy of Sciences) Leggett, Frank L., Meredith, N. H.: 10 phosphate minerals from Palermo Mine, North Groton, N. H. (204883, ex- change). Leigh, Lewis, Chantilly, Va.: 1 en- velope bearing special markings (205566). Leigh, Dr. W. Henry, Coral Gables, Fla.: 4 slides containing cotypes of a new species of helminth (205457). Leith, Dr. Edward, Winnipeg, Can- ada: 1 type slide of Octocorallia (205949). Leonard, E. C., Washington, D. C.: 9,300 plants, mostly collected in the United States (203116). Leve, J. Arthur, New York, N. Y.: 5,930 South American stamps (206055). Liberia, Republic of: 4 Liberian stamps (204265); (through Liberian Philatelic Agency) 6 Liberian “Presi- dential Visit’? stamps (204900); (through Dr. Frederick A. Price) 6 Liberia “Sports” stamps (205567). Liberian Philatelic Agency. Liberia, Government of) Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.: Medal struck at Mint in Brussels, Belgium, in 1954 to commemorate In- stitut Royal Belge (203783) ; medallion (See Insti- (See California (See 80 in porcelain of George Washington (205980) ; (through Library of Con- gress Stamp Club) 1,226 philatelic spec- imens from Belgium, Bohemia, Moravia, Croatia, Serbia, and Slovakia (204620). (See also Anonymous) Library of Congress Stamp Club. (See Library of Congress) Ligon, J. Stokley, Carlsbad, N. Mex.: Skeleton of Seesee partridge (203507). Limestone College, Gaffney, S. C.: 8 plants (203607). Lin, Dr. Shu-ye, Tegucigalpa, Hon- duras: 85 fishes from Honduras and 2 erustaceans (202935). Lindroth, Dr. Carl H., Lund, Sweden: 43 ladybugs from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia (2055386). Link, Marilyn, Binghamton, N. Y.: 1 U. S. first-flight cover (205609). Lipinsky, Mrs. Elinita K. Burgess, Rome, Italy: 8 etchings illustrating Homer’s Odyssey by Sigmund Lipinsky, 1873-1940 (206487). Lipinsky, Lino S., New York, N. Y.: 29 etchings and drawings by Mr. Lipinsky for exhibition June-July 1955 (206488, loan). Livingston, Col. John L., Jr., Yuba City, Calif.: 28 tungsten and other ores from Korea (206505). Loeblich, Dr. Helen T., and Dr. Alfred R., Jr.. Washington, D. C.: 1,000 foram- iferal samples from Paleozoic to Re- cent, world wide, and 3,500,000 speci- mens of Foraminifera from Texas and Oklahoma (206510). Lorenz, Charies. (See National Tu- berculosis Association) Louisville, University of, Louisville, Ky.: (Through Dr. William M. Clay) 270 fresh-water fishes from Kentucky (204889, exchange). Lowe, Ed H., Marathon, Fla.: (Through Joseph Curtis Moore) 2 tym- panic bones of a piked whale from Bahia Honda Key, Fla. (205977). Lowe, Edith Blinston, Washington, D. C.: 28 shawls, laces, and pieces of jewelry (206461). Lowenstein, Ernst, New York, N. Y.: 2,238 philatelic specimens ; 4-volume col- U. 8S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 lection of Honduras airmail stamps and covers, and 3-volume collection of Para- guay airmails (204876). Lowerre, F. G., St. Petersburg, Fla.: 1 deep-water marine mollusk from South Africa (203909). Lunz, Dr. G. Robert. (See Bears Bluff Laboratories) Lura, Soren, Forest Heights, Md.: 2 Danish philatelic wrappers (204383) ; 2 souvenir label sheets issued for Lions International ““Extamp” exhibition (205569). Lutz, John C., Philadelphia, Pa.: 8 bugs from South America (208770, ex- change). Lynn, Dr. W. Gardner, Washington, D. C.: 19 frogs, a type and 18 paratypes, from Portland Ridge, Clarendon, Ja- maica (206342). Lyon, William J., Makati, Rizal, P. I.: 41 miscelianecus Philippine philatelic specimens (203731) ; 39 Philippine Is- lands first-day covers (204010). Lys, M., Rueil-Malmaison, France: 50 Foraminifera from Tertiary of France (203195, exchange). MacManus, Ruth 8B. Washington, D. C.: Balinese theatrical face mask of carved and painted wood (203044). Magnolia Field Research Laboratory, Dallas, Tex.: (Through Dr. Willis G. Hewatt) 90 miscellaneous marine inver- tebrates from Heald Bank area of Texas gulf coast (202026). Main, Robert J.. Washington, D. C.: 16 marine mollusks from Maryland (205241). Malkin, Dr. Borys, Seattle, Wash.: 100 marine invertebrates, and 1 insect, collected near San Blas, Nayarit, Méx- ico (201009). Manahan, Addie Baile, Westminster, Md.: 1 album quilt made in 1850-51 by Eliza Jane Baile (202673) ; white mus- lin wrapper, chemise and drawers hand made by Fannie Jane Manahan between 1873 and 1874 (203078). Mangin, M. Jean Philippe, Dijon, France: 1 sample containing topotype foraminifers from Cretaceous of Spain (204734, exchange), DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Manitcba, University of, Winnipeg, Manitoba: 156 plants from Manitoba (202670, exchange). Mann, Dr. William M., Washington, D. C.: 186,288 insects, including 116,247 ants; 150 mollusks (205236). (See also National Zoological Park) Manning, J. H., Solomons, Md.: 45 marine mollusks from Patuxent River, Md. (204959). Marble, Dr. Jchn P., Washington, D. C.: 15 specimens of lava and volcanic products from Italy (204462). (See also Marble, Mrs. John P.) Marble, Mrs. John P., Washington, D. C.: (Through Dr. John P. Marble) Beaded silver chain bracelet bought in Ttaly about 1900 (205706). Marie, M. Pierre, Paris, France: 35 topotype Foraminifera from Oligocene of Alsace, France (203073, exchange). Mariners Museum, Newport News, Va. (Through Harold S. Sniffen) 46 pictorial prints from 8th Annual Exhibi- tion of Marine Photography for exhibit, May 1955 (205983, loan). Marks, A. and Marks, Edward §., Washington, D. C.: United States flag presented to Washington Light Guard, commanded by Capt. S. A. H. Marks, Jr., by citizens of southeast Washing- ton in 1861, and 2 small banners (202857). Marks, Edward S. (See Marks, A.) Markuze, Abraham L., Arlington, Va.: 21 pages of foreign prescriptions (206452, loan). Markwith, F. R., Cheverly, Oliver, No. 9 typewriter (205423). Md.: Marquez, Dr. Victor M. (See Labo- ratorias Cosmos §. A.) Marriage, Dr. Lowell D. (See Ore- gon, Kish Commission of) Marshall, Ernest B., Laurel, Md.: 21 mammals from vicinity of Laurel (206523). Marshall, Dr. Norman B. (See Great Britain, Government of, British Museum (Natural History) ) Martin, Dr. Arthur W. ington, University of) (See Wash- 81 Martin, J. Lynton, Sault Saint Marie, Ontario: 4 moths from Canada (203638). Martin, Lloyd M., Los Angeles, Calif. : 10 moths from Arizona and California (2055385). Massengill Co., S. E., Bristol, Tenn. : (Through Frank W. DefFriece, Jr.) 15-gallon copper kettle complete with stand, and Colton pillmaking appara- tus (203204). Mathers, Carol K., Marshalltown, Iowa: 4 leeches from Silver Lake Fen, Lake Park, Iowa (205144). Matthews, Donald C., Honolulu, T. H.: 8 hermit crabs and 12 hippas from Hawaii (202891). Matthews, Oliver V., Salem, Oreg.: 2 plants collected in Oregon (202288). Mattingly, P.F. (See Great Britain, Government of, British Museum (Natu- ral History) ) Maiuda, Dr. Eizi, México, D. F.: 198 plants collected in México (204267). Mayer, Fritz, Hamburg, Germany: 6 fishes (203871). Mayeux, Herman S. Agricultural Supply Co.) Mayne, Dr. Wolf, Caracas, Venezuela: 5 thin sections and 2 type Foraminifera from Venezuela and Algeria (204546) ; 4 type Foraminifera from Tertiary of Venezuela (204741); 10 type Forami- nifera for the Cushman collection (205714). Maysiiles, James H. Ann Arbor, Mich.: 16 plants from México (203928). McAlister, Frances. (See Clemson Agricultural College) McAllister, Dr. Raymond F., Galves- ton, Tex.: 1 shrimp found in bottom sediment core taken 8 miles offshore from Galveston jetty (204375). McCabe, John H., Arlington, Va.: 1 gyrafalecon (204193). McCain, Laura B., Alexandria, Va.: 1 plant collected in Ohio (203115). McCormick, Lela S., Everett, Wash.: Appointment of Joseph Dodge, Jr., as 1st lieutenant, 6th Regiment Middlesex County Militia, Massachusetts Bay Colony, dated April 9, 1778 (206550). (See Florida 82 McCuen, C. L. Corp.) McDermott, Frank A., Wilmington, Del.: 46 beetles from Chile (20383883, 206458). McDunnough, Dr. J., Halifax, Nova Scotia: 8 paratype moths from North America (205406). McKim, Mrs. W. D. Washington, D. C.: 2 small wooden bowls and a framed mirror, examples of Norwegian folk art in wood carving and applica- tion of color (205707). McKinney, Elva L., Washington, D. C.: Leather neediecase, 1842, lace collar, ca. 1870, pair black satin shoes, pair white lisle stockings and 1 red and white patchwork quilt (205091, 205528). McLane, Dr. William M., Crescent City, Fla.: 2 polychaete worms, 1 shrimp, and 1 mollusk (205494). McMullen, Dysart, Washington, D. C.: United States bronze medal, 1889, commemorating the 100th anni- versary of the incorporation of George- town College (205572). Mead, Hilda, Springfield, Mo.: 9 fresh-water mollusks from Missouri (202887). Medical Evangelists, College of, Loma Linda, Calif.: 188 plants from California (205427). Mehta, Dhirubhai, Ghatkopar, India: 3 first-day covers from India (204892). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N. Y.: 1 arm chair, 2 side chairs, and 1 slipper chair of rosewood, attrib- uted to John Belter, mid-19th century (206485, loan). Metter, Raymond E., Columbus, Ohio: 20 Mississippian and Permian brachio- pods from Utah (205779, exchange). Meyer, Maj. Gen. G. Ralph, El Paso, Tex.: 119 sets of eggs of Panamanian bird (206444). Meyer, Robert C. Staten Island, N. Y.:2 grasses from New York (203975). Meyerburg, Robert, Silver Spring, Md.: 2 philatelic specimens (204617). (See also Treasury Department, Secret Service) (See General Motors U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Miami, University of, Coral Gables, Fla.: (Through Mrs. Gilbert Voss): 9 larval fishes from Florida (203003). Michigan, University of, Ann Arbor, Mich.: 3 plants collected in México (204458) ; (through Dr. Franklin D. Johnston) original electrocardiograph owned by Dr. Frank N. Wilson, pioneer in field of _ electrocardiography (2038310); (through Mrs. Joyce H. Jones) 63 lichens (205239, exchange) ; (through Dr. Irving J. Cantrall) 36 flies from Florida and Michigan (206532). Michigan State College, Hast Lan- sing, Mich.: 18 plants from México (205361). Micks, Don W., Galveston, Tex.: 35 flies from Iwo Jima (206459). Miles, Mrs. Arnold, Washington, D. C.: 1 stoneware jar marked “W. J. Lehew and Co., Strasburg, Va.,” and wrought-iron, butterfly-type wagon nut (202666) ; 1 redware kitchen pot and 1 fragmentary stoneware jar (204769). Miles, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, Wash- ington, D. C.: § pieces of children’s un- dergarments, 19th century (204483) ; 1 black and white cotton challis house dress, style late 19th century (206338). (See also Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Arp) Miller, Dr. A. K., Iowa City, Iowa: 215 Ordovician fossils, including types, from Baffin Island (204204) ; 35 Juras- sie brachiopods from Arabia (204731). Miller, George C. (See Interior, U. 8S. Department of the, Fish and Wildlife Service) Miller, John. (See Weston BHlectri- cal Instrument Corp.) Milier, Neal E. (See Yale Univer- sity) Miller, Comdr. Walter B., Falls Church, Va.: 89 land and fresh-water mollusks from various localities in the United States (203276). Miner, Mrs. Leo D., Washington, D. C.: Chinese brocaded grass cloth hanging (205275). Mineralogisch-petrographisches In- stitut, Gottingen, Germany: 2 speci- mens of corrensite from Germany (205552). DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Ministério da Viacao e Obras Pub- licas, Fortaleza-ce, Brazil: (Through Carlos Bastos Tigre) 20 fishes from Brazil (203383). Ministério de Agricultura y Cria, Caracas, Venezuela: 2 plants (205114) ; (through Dr. Francisco Tamayo) 1 lichen from Venezuela (203874). Ministério de Agricultura e Indus- trias, San José, Costa Rica: (Through L. A. Salas F.) 9 land snails from San José (204354). Minnesota, University of, Minneap- olis, Minn. : 67 phanerogams, 8 grasses, and 15 ferns from the United States and México (206353, exchange) ; (through Prof. Henry J. Griffiths) 98 fresh-water mollusks from Minnesota (202749) ; 21 fresh-water snails from Polk County, Minn. (203763) ; (through Dr. Samuel Eddy) 4 fresh-water fishes from North Carolina (205235, ex- change) ; (through Dr. Gerald B. Own- bey) 25 New Zealand ferns (205284, exchange); (through Dr. Hdwin F. Cook) 95 flies from North America, in- cluding 1 paratype (206058, 206059, 206460). Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo.: 1 cultivated plant (2054380); (through Dr. R. M. Tryon, Jr.) 1 iso- type of fern (205543, exchange). Mitchell, Dr. T. B., Raleigh, N. C.: 2 bees (202770, exchange). Mohammed Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Karachi: Pink pearl from Hast Pakistan (204597). Molley, R. E., Mohnton, Pa. : 160 speci- mens comprising model, patent letters, manuscripts, photographs, and miscel- laneous documents pertaining to the in- ventions of Theodore Ruggles Timby, chiefly in the field of equipment for use in naval warfare (206545). Monaco, Government of: (Through Office des Emissions de Timbres-Poste) 72 miscellaneous philatelic items from Monaco (205562, 206554). Monod, Dr. Théodore, Dakar, French West Africa : 13 amphipods from Philip- pine Islands (2033880). Montana State College, Bozeman, Mont.: 1 grass from Montana (202693). 83 Montana State University, Missoula, Mont.: 57 plants from Montana and México, collected by LeRoy H. Harvey (197309). Montgomery, William H., New York, N. ¥.: Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial stamp collection comprising 246 speci- mens (206553). Moon, George E., Bakersfield, Calif. : 5 barite sand roses, Cuyama River Val- ley between Bakersfield and Santa Maria, Calif. (202186). Moore, Dr. H. E., Jr. University ) Moore, Joseph Curtis. Ed H.) Moore, Mrs. William T., Washington, D. C., and Tasher, Dr. Lucy Lucile, Normal, Il.: 18 items of clothing and accessories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (205719); 1 paisley printed gauze shawl, 1 overshot cover- let, and 1 Jacquard coverlet (205417). Morlan, Harvey B., Savannah, Ga.: 2 type lice from United States (202941). Morris, Mrs. George Maurice, Wash- ington, D. C.: 36 pieces of English and Irish 18th-century silver (206052, loan). Morrison, Dr. Joseph P. E., Washing- ton, D. C.: Williamson teat fire revolver (203526). Moul, Prof. Edwin T. University ) Moule, George R., Queensland, Aus- tralia: 10 ethnographical specimens from aborigines of Queensland (203876). Mroczkowski, Maciej. Academy of Sciences) Mrose, Dr. Mary, Arlington, Va.: 11 (See Cornell (See Lowe, (See Rutgers (See Polish minerals from EHrajarvi, Viitaniemi, Finland (204782). Muller, Dr. Siemon W. (See Hum- phrey, Dr. Fred L.) Mumford, Russell E., Pinckney, Mich.: 31 mammals from Indiana (202828). Munby, A. N. L., Cambridge, England: Drawing of Washington City from the Southeast copied from an _ original sketch by Blanc; probably made about 1830 by J. W. Heathcote (206537). 84 Murch, Robert Westlund, St. Louis, Mo.: 1 Laclede Steel Co. Balloon Derby posteard (204381) ; 1 envelope with spe- cial rubber stamping (205618). Murray, Rev. J. J., Lexington, Va.: 4 chickadees and 1 sapsucker (203619) ; 4 bird skins from Virginia (203972). Museo de Historia Natural “Javier Prado”, Lima, Peri: (Through Dr. Ramon Ferreyra) 28 grasses of Peru (206471). Museum of Natural History, Geneva, Switzerland: (Through Dr. Charles Ferriere) 3 cotype ants from Europe (202984, exchange). Museum of Natural History, Reykja- vik, Iceland: (Through Finnur Gud- mundsson) Greenland white-fronted goose (204110, exchange). Museum of Natural History of Hous- ton, Houston, Tex.: 1 plant (203899). Mushlitz, Lt. R. D., Arlington, Va.: 2 babingionites from Arlington Quarry, Leesburg, Va. (203960, exchange). Myers, ©. A., and Son, Inc. Pitts- burgh, Pa.: 2 hearing aids, models B-6 and 830 (205911). Nadeau, Victor, Montreal, Canada: (Through Pierre Brunel) 8 specimens parasitic copepods (204708). Nagappa, Y.. Assam, India: Approx- imately 150 Recent and Tertiary Foram- inifera from India and Pakistan (204387, exchange). Namegata, Dr. Tomitaro, Chiba-ken, Japan: 100 Japanese ferns (204557, exchange). National Geographic Society, Wash- ington, D. C.: 14 earthenware vessels restored from fragments found by Neil M. Judd in Chaco Canyon, N. Mex. (198370); dugout canoe made by Charlie Cypress, a Seminole Indian, Great Cypress Reservation, southern Florida (203036) ; 11 bird skins and 11 fishes from Ungava district, Quebec (203089) ; 131 bird skins, 15 mammals from Weeks African Expedition (205414). National Museum, Manila, P. I.: 146 plants of the Philippine Islands (205328, exchange). U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 National Photographic Society, Washington, D. C.: (Through Harry B. Shaw) 46 monochrome prints and 101 color slides by the Society members for exhibition, November—December, 1954 (204665, loan). National Research Council, Pacific Science Board, Washington, D. C.: 532 plants collected in Caroline Islands by S. F. Glassman in 1949 (203511) ; 1,115 plants collected in Micronesia by vari- ous collectors (204459). National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan: 199 Japanese plants collected by Dr. J. Ohwi (202669, exchange) ; 1 plant from Japan (204552). National Tuberculosis Association, New York, N. Y.: 2 labels with repro- duction of 1953 Christmas Seal, and 2 National Tuberculosis Association “Wifty Years of Service’ labels (205612); (through Charles Lorenz) % blocks of 4, progressive printing proofs, 1954 Christmas seals; 1 block of 4, 1954 Christmas seal imperforate (205410). Natura! History Museum, San Diego, Calif.: (Through HE. P. Chace) 7 land and marine mollusks from Lower Cali- fornia (203237). Naturhistorische Museum, Vienna, Austria: (Through Dr. Max Beier) 6 insects from Paraguay, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Brazil (205405). Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stock- holm, Sweden: 1,119 plants collected in Haiti by E. L. Ekman (2038118, ex- change) ; 36 land snails from Scandi- navia (205578, exchange). Nebraska, State of, Game, Foresta- tion, and Parks Commission, Lincoln: 126 plants and 65 grasses from Ne- braska (201946, 204789). Needham, R. M., Lancaster, Ohio: 3 first-day covers (204191, 205570). Neisser, Philip B. (See Treasury Department, Bureau of the Mint) Nelson, Dr. A. L. (See Interior, U. S. Department of the, Fish and Wild- life Service) Netherlands, Government of the, The Hague: Administration des Postes, des Telegraphes et des Telephones: 15 DONORS philatelic specimens of the Netherlands (204189). Director Swuperieur des Postes: 1 Netherlands stamp commem- orating Royal Statue (205006) ; 7 com- memorative stamps and semipostals of The Netherlands (206371). Nevada, University of, Reno, Nev.: 1 grass from Nevada (202692). New Hampshire, University of, Dur- ham, N. H.: 57 plants collected in Alaska by A. R. Hodgdon (204896, ex- change). New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, N. Mex.: 1 titanoclinohumite specimen from Buell Park, Ariz. (205989). Newcomb College, New Orleans, La.: (Through Prof. Willis A. Eggler) 3 fragments of plants (191640). Newell, Dr. Norman D. (See Ameri- can Museum of Natural History) Newhouse, Dr. Jan. (See Hawaii, University of) New York Botanical Garden, New York, N. Y.: 147 grasses collected in Heuador by W. H. Camp (185855) ; 127 plants, mostly collected in Heuador by W. H. Camp (202667, exchange) ; 291 plants of South America collected by Dr. Bassett Maguire, Dr. W. H. Camp, and others (208289, exchange). New York Schoo! for the Deaf, White Plains, N. Y.: 1 early hearing trumpet (206077). New York State Museum, Albany, N. Y.: (Through Dr. Hugo Jamnback) 14 flies from New York (205279). New Zealand, Government of, De- partment of Internal Affairs: (Through Thane Riney) 19 rats from New Zea- land (193027). Nicaragua, Government of, Philatelic Agency of Nicaragua: (Through Sr. Agustin Vanegas P.) 16 miscellaneous Nicaraguan philatelic specimens (204891). Nichols, J. T. (See American Mu- seum of Natural History) Nielsen, Peder, Silkeborg, Denmark: 39 crane-flies, representing 16 species, from Denmark (202864, exchange) ; 74 flies from Denmark (203596, exchange). Nolan, Dr. Thomas B., Washington, TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS 89 D. C.: 38 fossil fish from Lower Cre- taceous near Hureka, Ney., collected by Dr. G. A. Cooper, Robert Main, and donor in summer 1954 (204670). North Carolina, University of, Chapel Hill, N. C.: 20 wood specimens and 20 microscope mounts of the genus Garrya (205984, exchange). North Dakota, University of, Grand Forks, N. Dak.: (Through Prof. G. C. Wheeler) 32 land and fresh-water mol- lusks from North Dakota and Min- nesota (201454). North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, N. Dak.: 15 plants from North Dakota (194345); 140 plants from North Dakota (204060, gift-exchange). Nerway, Government of, Norwegian Embassy, Washington, D. C.: (Through Torfinn Oftedal) 3 Norwegian State Telegraph System commemorative stamps (2041387) ; 3 Norwegian postage stamp centennial commemorative stamps (204358); Norwegian 10-ore “official” stamp and imprinted posteard, 2 specimens (206548). Northwestern University Dentai School, Chicago, Ill.: (Through Dr. George W. Teuscher) Dental office equipment of Dr. G. V. Black (203911) ; Caligraph No. 2 typewriter (204618). Norten Company, Worcester, Mass.: 54 specimens of abrasive and refractory materials (203888, exchange). Gaks, G. A., Wilmette, Ill. : 10 selected woods from Texas, Africa, Cuba, Vene- muela, New Guinea, and New Zealand (2043866, exchange). Office des Emissions de Timbres- Poste. (See Monaco, Government of) Oftedai, Torfinn. (See Norway, Gov- ernment of) Ognjencvie, V. ernment of) Ogren, Larry, Gainesville, Fla.: 2 Suwannee turtles from Florida (205867). Ohio State Museum, Columbus, Ohio: (Through Hdward 8. Thomas) 32 birds from Panama (203281, exchange). Ohio State University, Columbus, Ghio: 4,084 plants collected by W. A. Kellerman in Guatemala (205992). (See Yugoslavia, Gov- 86 O’Keefe, Dr. John A. Washington, D. C.: 19 phanerogams, 2 grasses, and 1 fern collected in Philippines (204362). Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechani- cal College, Stillwater, Okla. : 19 grasses from Oklahoma (203792, exchange). Oman, Dr. Paul W. (See Agriculture, U. S. Department of, Entomology Re- search Branch) Orcés V., Dr. Gustavo, Quito, Ecua- dor: 80 shrimps, 2 spiny lobsters, 5 por- cellanids, and 69 crabs from Ecuador (205863). (See Instituto de Ciéncias Naturales) Oregon, Fish Commission of, New- port, Oreg.: (Through Dr. Lowell D. Marriage) 3 marine mollusks from Ore- gon (203248). O’Reurke, Don, Grosse Ile, Mich.: 4 moth larvae from Michigan (205403). Ortman, Clara, Cocheton, N. Y.: 55 dyed vegetable ivory buttons (204862). Osborne, Dr. Douglas. (See Wash- ington, University of) Ostergaard, J. M., Honolulu, T. H.: Holotypes of 7 new species nudibranch mollusks from Hawaiian Islands (204115). Otarion Inc., Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.: 1 Model A-2 Otarion hearing aid (204949). Owen, Dr. Gareth, Glasgow, Scot- land: 16 Recent foraminiferal samples from Challenger Expedition (203067). Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio: 47 small glass and plastic pre- scription containers and 1 small apothe- cary show globe with stand (205913). Ownbey, Dr. Gerald B. (See Minne- sota, University of) Oxford University Museum, Oxford, England: (Through Dr. L. R. Wager) 15 rocks from Skaergaard Intrusion Kangerdlugssuaq, East Greenland (204205, exchange). Page, M. Josephine, Alexandria, Va.: 160 specimens of costumes, costume ac- cessories, and domestic implements of the 19th century (205078). Paleontologisk Museum, Oslo, Nor- way: 1 slab of shale containing several Ordovician brachiopods from Dalarna, Sweden (203973, exchange). U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Palmer, Mrs. W. J., Charlotte Hall, Md.: 2 black-widow spiders from Mary- land (203081). Palmer, William G., Jr., Charlotte Hall, Md.: Young hognose snake from Charlotte Hall (203584). Palmiter, C.C. (See General Electric Co.) Panama Canal Natural History So- ciety. (See Benson Grubstakers) Papua and New Guinea, Territory of, Deparimenit of Forests, Lae: 109 phan- erogams, 5 grasses, and 9 ferns from New Guinea (205944, exchange). Paradiso, John L., Washington, D. C.: 1 mouse from Baltimore County, Md. (206526). Paravox Inc., Cleveland, Ohio: 1 Paravox standard Model VH hearing aid (205914). Parke, Davis, & Company, Detroit, Mich.: Single panel exhibit entitled “The Story of the Ampoule” (206051). Parker, Frances L., La Jolla, Calif.: 320 type slides and 18 specimens of Foraminifera from Recent of Gulf of Mexico (204371, 204735) ; 2,000 speci- mens of Recent foraminifer Rotaliella from Yugoslavia (206508) ; 36 Recent foraminifera from the Gulf of Mexico (205248, exchange). Parker, Robert H. (See Scripps In- stitution of Oceanography) Parkhurst, Joseph L., Jr., Colonia, N. J.: 1 dried worm tube (202199) ; 5 echinoderms and 3 scallops, from Ply- mouth, England, and Tromso, Norway (202458, 202548); 4 barnacles, 5 sea- stars and 2 echinoderms collected at Haifa, Israel (202736) ; 1 fresh-water and 1 marine mollusk from New Jersey (204409, 205264). Parnau, John L. field) Patterson, A. D. (See Hendey Ma- chine Company, Inc.) Peck, Paul, New York, N. Y.: 18 mounted pictures forming exhibit en- titled ‘The Hvolution of Medical Illus- trating” (203208, loan). Perconig, Dr. E., Lodi (Milano), Italy: 20 foraminiferal slides and 17 (See Goudey, Hat- DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS microsamples from Tertiary of Italy (203061, exchange). Perkins, Sibyl Avery (deceased) : (Through Mrs. Robert C. Johnson, Jr.) Commemorative linen napkin, ca. 1850 (203588) ; 1 silk embroidered shawl, 2 machine-knit silk shawls, 1 silk gauze shawl, 3 tortoise shell and metal combs, and 4 tortoise shell hairpins (205527). Permingeat, F. (See Service Geo- logique du Maroc) Perry, Kenneth M., Falls Church, Va.: German radiosonde apparatus, and Japanese radiosonde apparatus (204101). Perry, Dr. Stuart H., Adrian, Mich. : Sample of Horse Creek, Colo., meteorite (202714, loan) ; piece of meteorite that fell at Sylacauga, Ala., 1,682 grams (205402) ; 33 meteorites (205897). Peterson, George D., Jr. (See Guam, Government of) Peterson, Mendel L., Washington, D. C.: 1 sipunculid worm, 2 isopods, 2 crabs, also mollusks, collected in Flor- ida (204791). Pettibone, Dr. Marian H., Durham, N. H.: Approximately 3,645 marine in- vertebrates, including 6 types, from Woods Hole, Mass. (204024). Pfeiffer, J. E., Swedesboro, N. J.: 1 wine bottle from i18th-century ship- wreck in Delaware River, and 1 lot of wine-bottle fragments from Wistarberg Glassware site (205901). Phelan, Sgt. Thomas L., Spokane, Wash.: 5 fossil leaves from Miocene Latah formation near Spokane (203786). Phelps, Dr. William H., Caracas, Venezuela: 2 birds (203047). Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia, Pa.: McFer- ran tablet press, patented July 31, 1888 (204622) ; (through Dr. Ivor Griffith) 2-piece wooden pill machine made by S. Z. Hall of Philadelphia (203206). Philleo, E.W. (See General Electric Co.) Phillips, Ira Dean, Santa Rosa, Calif. : 14 lichens from California (204727). Phillips, Julius B. (See Hopkins Marine Station) 87 Phillips, Mrs. T. C. Catlettsburg, Ky.: Uniform coat, trousers, shirt, medals, and decorations owned by Lt. Robert Lee Cox, Jr., during World War II (202580). Phleger, Dr. Fred B., La Jolla, Calif. : 305 foraminiferal slides (203124). Pierce, Dr. E. Lowe. (See Florida, University of) Pinch, William, Rochester, N. Y.: 2 minerals from Loomis tale mine, Fowler, N. Y., and Steele mine, Lin- hurst, Ontario (203549). Pineapple Research Institute of Ha- wali, Honolulu, T. H.: (Through K. Sakimura) 16 paratype thrips on 3 Slides (202547). Pittendrigh, Prof. C. S., Princeton, N. J.: 11 plants of Trinidad (206476). Place, Dr. Philip W., South Lincoln, Mass.: French medical ofiicer’s bottle container and shoulder carrying belt (205358). Poland, Government of: (Through Prasa I Ksiazka) 76 Polish stamps and other philatelie items (204096, 204545, 204619, 204895, 205565); 14 Polish stamps, including commemorative spec- imens of the USSR Treaty of Friend- ship, 10th Anniversary; 8th Interna- tional Cycling Race of Peace; and War- saw Monuments (204897, 206488); 2 Polish stamps commemorating the “5th Intern competition of Chopin’s Music,” 2nd edition (206364). Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, Mass.: (Through Stanford Calderwood) 1 Model 80 land polaroid (still) camera (202854). Poling, James W., New York, N. Y.: 5 land snails from New Guinea (206555). Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Warsaw, Poland: (Through Maciej Mroczkowski) 8 beetles, includ- ing 4 paratypes, from Europe (202612). Pollak, Mrs. Virginia Morris, New York, N. Y.: 1 basketry and wood figure from a grave on central coast of Pert, from the Arther Morris collection, Nor- folk, Va. (206465). Pollock, Arline M., Washington, D. C.: 2 revolvers, 1 Belgian pistol, 1 88 powder flask, 1 powder horn, 1 shot pouch (205627). Poos, Dr. Fred W., Washington, D. C.: 80,000 leafhoppers (206454). Post Office Department, Washington, D. C.: 1,187 postage stamps: 1 each from International Bureau of Universal Postal Union and circulars 2-IV, Feb. 12; 4IV, Mar. 19; 7-IV, Apr. 27; and §-IV, May 21, ail 1954 (203818); 36 commemorative and ordinary postage stamps (203416, 205685); 81 postage meter devices and machines and mis- cellaneous meter items (205409) ; 2,097 philatelie specimens (2053387, 205474) ; 540 specimen meter markings prepared for the Post Office Department by Pit- ney Bowes, Inc. (205720) ; 671 postage stamps: 1 each issued in other coun- tries and described in Universal Postal Union Bulletins No. 4IV, Feb. 18; No. 6-IV, Mar. 18; and No. S-IV, Apr. 15, all 1955 (206382). Potter, Dr. David. versity ) Pou, Alejandro and Peu, Gonzalo, Montevideo, Uruguay: 3 copper-nickel coins and 9 stamps from Uruguay (202883, 2038461). Pou, Gonzalo. Prasa I Ksiazka. ernment of) Pratt, Dr. Harry D. (See Health, Education, and Welfare, U. S. Depart- ment of) Prescott, Col. and Mrs. Dana S., Ar- lington, Va. : 10-piece costume of a Gash- ghai woman, sister of the 4 tribal chief- tains, collected from the Ghashghai, in Tran (206522). Prescott, Dr. Gerald W., Hast Lan- sing, Mich.: (Through Dr. Royal Bruce Brunson) 9 land mollusks from EHeuador (203181). Prescott, Samuel J., Washington, D. C.: Hickory walking cane with let- ters “Abraham Lincoln” inlaid in silver supposedly used by President Lincoln in White House (203979). Price, Dr. Frederick A. Republie of) Priest, Amel, Peru, Iowa: 200 as- sorted invertebrate fossils from Penn- (See Clark Uni- (See Pou, Alejandro) (See Poland, Gov- (See Liberia, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 sylvanian of Iowa (2043877, exchange). Prince, Robert E., Coral Hills, Md.: 1 bug from Maryland (203530). Prohaska, Dr. Janet A, APO, San Francisco, Calif.: 1 blind-snake from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Mari- anas Islands (202744). Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of, De- partment of Agriculture and Commerce, San Juan: (Through Félix Ifigo) 12 shrimps and 1 crab collected by Luis A. Cestas Grana from Jayuya, Puerto Rico (202783). Puerto Rico, University of, Mayagiiez, P. R.: 8 grasses from Puerto Rico (204447). Purchon, Dr. R. Denison, Singapore, Malaya: 17 marine mollusks from Ma- laya (203233). Puri, Dr. Harbans S., Tallahassee, Fla.: 17 type ostracodes from Miocene of Florida (204913, exchange). Quattlebaum, W. Dan, Pasadena, Calif.: Amelung clear blown glass bowl, and decanter engraved with eagle (203045). Query, Lt. Col. L. J., Alexandria, Va. : Cut “bottoms-up” glass, made at Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (205902). Guimby, Eisie Howland, Washington, D. C.: 2 Sheraton arm chairs with cane seats (205621). Quynn, Mrs. Dorothy MacKay, Fred- erick, Md.: 2 lots giass sherds, 1 lot melting-pot fragments from site of John Frederick Amelung’s New Bremen Glassworks, Frederick County, Md., 1 wine-glass stem, 1 bottle fragment, 1 shaft of drawer pull, and 3 bottle sherds dug from yard adjacent to Amelung mansion (204722). Radalj, Mirko. (See Yugoslavia, Fed- eral Government of) Rageot, Roger, Norfolk, Va.: 24 land and fresh-water mollusks from Nanse- mond County, Va. (202837). Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, Calif.: 6 plants of Califor- nia (204669). Randall, John E. versity of) Rapp, Floyd A., Takoma Park, Md.: 8 minerals from Japan (208800). (See Hawaii, Uni- DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Rasetti, Dr. France, Baltimore, Md.: 800 assorted invertebrate fossils from the Italian Alps (203302). Rauch, Leonard A. Jr. Seattle, Wash.: Part of fish skull from Adak, Alaska (202539). Raup, Omer. (See Holling, Henry) Rausch, Dr. Robert. (See Health, Haucation and Welfare, Department of, Arctic Health Research Center) Reddington, C. Richard, Denver, Colo.: 1 kasolite from Mica Lakes area near Hahn’s Peak, northern Colorado (204674). Reed, Dr. Edwyn P., Valparaiso, Chile: 1 fish, holotype of new species (205677). Reeside, Dr. John B., Jr. (See Cush- man Foundation for Foraminiferal Re- search) Rehder, Dr. Harald A., Washington, D. C.: 1 picture postcard (204480). Reid, Dr. J. A. Kuala Lumpur, Malaya: 141 miscellaneous insects from Malaya (206567). Reinhard, Prof. H. J., College Station, Tex.: 7 flies, including 2 paratypes, from Texas and Utah (202769, ex- change); 9 flies, including 8 types (204999). Reiss, Dr. Z. (See Israel, Govern- ment of, Geological Institute) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. ¥.: 7 cartons of papers and drawings of Alexander Lyman Holley and his organization, 1860 to 1880 (204490). Rhodesia-Nyasaland, Office of the High Commissioner, London, England: 2 Rhodesia and Nyasaland Victoria Falls Centenary commemorative stamps, July 15, 1955 (206870). Ridgely, Mrs. William Barrett, Wash- ington, D. C.: 1 painted leather fire bucket with portrait of George Wash- ington (204768). Riek, E. F., Canberra, Australia: 1 wasp from Australia (206061, ex- change). (See also Scientific and In- dustrial Research Organization) Riggle, Byron A. (See Triton-Hast Africa Company) 89 Riggs National Bank. (See Zears, Charlotte H.) Rijksherbarium, Leiden, Nether- lands: 21 fragments of fern types (203962, exchange) ; 17 plants of Ma- laysia (205605, exchange). Rijksmuseum Van Naituurlijke His- torie, Leiden, Netherlands: (Through Dr. L. B. Holthuis) 218 specimens of polychaetes (203875). Riney, Thane. (See New Zealand, Department of Internal Affairs) Riser, Dr. N., Nashville, Tenn.: 1 piebald little brown bat from Kentucky (204744). Ritcher, Dr. P. O., Corvallis, Oreg.: 30 beetles from Oregon (206457). Ritchey, Mrs. H. S., Winchester, Ind. : 1 silver knitting-needle shield (206436). Roberts, Dr. F. H. H., Jr. (See Jen- hings, Dr. Jesse D.) Roberts, Mrs. Alfred, Baltimore, Md.: 2 pink chiffon and lace over pink satin evening dresses of early 20th century and 1 white satin petticoat worn under dresses (206489). Robertson, Mrs. Persis, Washington, D. C.: 33 lithographs by Mrs. Robert- son for exhibition January 1955 (204600, loan). Robin, Art, Ketchikan, Alaska: (Through Department of the Interior, Forest Service) Tlingit Indian burial recovered by donor at Port Malmesbury, Kuiu island, southeast Alaska (201863). Robinsen, Douglas C. Haverford, Pa.: 1 green frog (203799). Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- search, New York, N. Y.: Original Hin- thoven string galvanometer (205104). Roebling Fund, Smithsonian Institu- tion: 14 minerals from Stari Trg mine, Trepea, Yugoslavia (201908); 3 elles- tadites from California (202921); 31 minerals including apophyllite, prehnite and byssolite, from Centreville, Va. (202977, 204907, 206033) ; 5 specimens of pyrophyllite from Staley, N. C. (203119) ; 1 spodumene, and 1 tour- maline erystal from Brazil (203227) ; 10 minerals (203384) ; 9 mineral speci- mens from Algeria, Australia, France, Italy, Morocco, and Tunisia (203521) ; 90 1 nadorite from Algeria (203726) ; 34 minerals from various localities in United States, and 1 from Bolivia (203727, 204805) ; 1 axinite on actino- lite from Madera County, and 1 neptunite with benitoite from San Benito County, Calif. (203892) ; 1 min- eral from Morocco (203893); 1 opal from Andamooka, Australia (203894) ; 10 minerals from California, Maryland, Ontario, British Columbia, Malaya, México, Italy, and Switzerland (204144) ; 1 bastnaesite crystal from Ambatofangehana, Andakatana, Mada- gascar (204803) ; 20 mineral specimens from Langban, Sweden (2043882); 2 topaz crystals and 1 smoky quartz erystal from Walker quarry, North Conway, N. H. (204395); 1 crystal of bournonite from Germany (204482) ; 20 mineral specimens from Switzer- land, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslo- vakia, Japan, Russia (204647) ; 3 min- erals from south of Oxon Run, Anacos- tia, Md. (204906) ; 1 dawsonite from Tunisia (204908); 6 dufrenites from Tazenarht, Morocco (204909); 3 end- lichites from Santa Maria del Oro, Durango, México, and 3 miargyrites from Randsburg, Calif. (204910); 3 minerals from India, and 1 mineral from México (204911); 2 chrysotiles from Swaziland, South Africa (205066) ; 1 topaz from Fisher quarry, Topsham, Maine (205220); 2 artinite specimens from California, and 3 rosasite specimens from México (205344) ; 1 fibrolite (sillimanite) from Burma (206081); 1 jamesonite and 1 pyrite from Taxco, México (206032) ; 1 Specimen each of zincite, hedyphane, mooreite, sussexite and yeatmanite, from New Jersey (206354). Roger, Dr. J., Paris, France: 42 para- type Cretaceous Foraminifera from Tunisia (2038059). Rogers, Maj. Gerald T., Wright-Pat- terson Air Force Base, Ohio: 1 purple gallinule (203508). Rohrer, Josephine, Washington, D. C.: 4 daugerreotypes and 4 ambro- types (204601). U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Roosevelt, Mrs. Kermit, New York, IN. Y.: White silk wedding gown worn by Belle Wyatt of Fairfax, Va., when she married Joseph E. Willard, Sept. 16, 1891 (204615) ; 12 U. S. Army and militia uniforms of Civil War and Spanish-American War periods (205100). Rosengarten, A. G., Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.: 1 Militia Dragoon jacket, ca. 1854, and 1 infantry coat, ca. 1860 (203481). Rosenzweig, Abraham, Minneapolis, Minn.: 3 specimens of goldichite from Dexter 7 Mine, Calf Mesa, San Rafael Swell, Utah (202919). Ross, Gordon B., México, D. F.: 170 plants from México (202757, 205195). Ross, Mrs. Helen M., Millburn, N. J.: 34 United States and United Nations first-day covers (204187, 205622, 206497, 206551). Rothenberg, Mrs. Pearl Gertrude, Los Angeles, Calif.: Silver Jewish cere- monial cup and saucer used at Feast of the Passover (203767). Rounds, Vera. (See H and R Worm Farm) Rowell, Chester M., Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich.: 40 Méxican ferns (201196). Rowley, Elmer B., Glen Falls, N. Y.: 2 tourmalines from northwest end of Brant Lake, near MHoricon, N. Y. (203230, exchange). Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland: 1 cultivated plant (204725). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, England: 344 plants from Borneo (202672, 204108, 205548, 206469, ex- change) ; 166 ferns from Africa and Australia (205602, exchange). Rozebcom, Dr. Lloyd E., Baltimore, Md.: 38 mosquitoes, type series, from Fiji (202604). Ruiz de Gaona, Dr. Maximo, Tolosa, Spain: 100 Foraminifera from Tertiary of La Pobla de Claramunt, Cataluiia, Spain (204917). Ruoff, Mrs. Ruoff, John H.) Ruoff, John H. (deceased): (Through Mrs. Frank Bower Ruoff) 50 G.A.R. medals and badges (203130). Frank Bower. (See DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Russell, Dr. Loris S. Government of) Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J.: (Through Prof. Edwin T. Moul) 84 specimens of marine algae (206474). Ryckman, Raymond E., Loma Linda, Calif.: 1,537 miscellaneous insects from México, Texas, and California (203175). (See also School of Tropical and Pre- ventive Medicine) Sabrosky, Curtis W., Washington, D. C.: 700 miscellaneous insects from Norway (203599); 46 fungus gnats from Michigan (205276). Sacramento State College, Sacra- mento, Calif.: (Through Dr. Martin R. Brittan) 2 paratype fishes from Sungei Patari, Kedah, Malaya, collected by Major R. C. Neath, 1953 (204397). Saenz-Pena, Charles, Washington, D. C.: 26 wood engravings by Victor Delhez for exhibition December 1954 (204098, loan). Said, Dr. Rushdi, Dokko, Cairo, Egypt: 4 samples of Foraminifera from Paleocene and Cretaceous of Egypt (2047387, exchange). Sailer, Dr. Reece I., Washington, D. C.: 8 marine invertebrates and col- lection of insects from Alaska (205367). Sakimura, K. (See Pineapple Re- search Institute of Hawaii) Salas F., L. A. (See Ministério de Agricultura e Industrias) Salter, William E., Washington, D. C.: Approximately 140 land and fresh-water mollusks from Oklahoma and Texas (202677) ; 250 fossils from Lower Devonian at White Mound, Okla. (208608) ; 1 dental battery of fossil fish from Plum Point, Md. (205247) ; 30 mollusks from Maryland (205398). Salyer, Clark P. (See Interior, U. S. Department of the, Fish and Wildlife Service) Sanborn, C. C. (See Defense, De- partment of, Department of the Navy) Saxton, R. N., Stafford, Va.: 1 long- tailed weasel (202676). Schallert, Dr. Paul O., Altamonte Springs, Fla.: 20 grasses from Florida (203759). 359482—55——_8 (See Canada, 91 Schelpe, Dr. E. A. (See Cape Town, University of) Scherer Corporation, R. P., Detroit, Mich.: 1 Scherer rotary-die capsulating machine (205238). Schindewolf, Dr. O. H. (See Geo- logiseh-Palaontologisches Institut) Schmitt, Dr. Waldo L., Washington, D. C.: 1 magnolia warbler (203228). Schnoeker, E. N., Addis Ababa, Ethi- opia: 5 Ethiopian coins of different denominations, minted in 1944 (206363) . Scholander, Dr. P. F., Woods Hole, Mass.: 1 shrimp, 1 hermit crab, and 1 crab (206018). School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif.: (Through Dr. Bruce W. Halstead) 2 fishes, including a paratype, from the tropical Pacifie (202620, exchange) ; (through Dr. Raymond E. Ryckman) 135 insects from México (204853). Schwartz, Albert, Charleston, S. C.: 3 parasitic copepods and tapeworms (176051) ; 1 snake, paratype of a new subspecies, from Finca Bucaress, Ori- ente, Cuba (206343). Schwengel, Dr. Jeanne S., Scarsdale, N. Y¥.: 880 miscellaneous marine mol- lusks (203185) ; 1 marine mollusk from Pulawat Atoll, Caroline Islands (205242); 1 rare marine shell from South Australia (206049). Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia: (Through H. F. Riek) 10 wasps, in- cluding 9 paratypes, from Australia (202978), exchange. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif.: (Through Robert H. Parker) 56 miscellaneous marine inver- tebrates, 1 mollusk, 1 holothurian, and echinoderms (202730); (through Dr. Thomas E. Bowman) approximately 809 copepods, including 235 types, from off California coast (203843). Seaman, G. A. (See Virgin Islands, Government of, Depariment of the In- terior) Segeler, Curt G. Brooklyn, N. Y.: 2 triphyllites from Chandlers Mills, N. H. 92 (208517, exchange) ; 1 pseudomalachite from New Jersey (205555). Selli, Prof. R. Bologna, Italy: Sample of Foraminifera from the Mio- cene of Italy (203190, exchange). Sennott, Mrs. J. N., Fort Myers Beach, Fla.: 22 marine mollusks (203235). Service Geologique du Maroe, Rabat, Morocco: (Through F. Permingeat) 1 specimen of the mineral tapiolite (206358). Sette, Oscar E. (See Intericr, U. S. Department of the, Fish and Wildlife Service) Severin, Prof. H. C. kota State College) Shaner, James B., Sr., Kutztown, Pa.: 1 posteard, first day of issue (204206). Sharp and Dohme, West Point, Pa.: 1 replica stethescope made between 1816 and 1819 (205912). Shaw, Dr. Alan B. University of) Shaw, Harry B. graphic Society) Shedenhelm, William R. C., Berkeley, Calif.: 3 mammals, 2 fleas, and 1 inver- tebrate (196729). Sherfy, Mrs. Raphael, Washington, D. C.: Foot-powered dental drill, dental head, and complete set of dental drills (205538). Shinn, Alvin F., Beverly, N. J.: 2 spec- imens of syrphid flies from Colorado (206456) . Sigler, C. R., Washington, D. C.: 1 young pilot blacksnake from the foot- hills of the Shenandoah, 15 mi. south of Luray, Va. (206420). Silverman, Dr. S. Richard (See Cen- tral Institute for the Deaf) Simler, Mrs. John W., Oklahoma City, Okla.: Map of Fort Brentwood, Tenn., drawn by Samuel Banks, May 1864, and modern reproduction of photograph of Samuel Banks (202207). Simons, Sylvia, Washington, D. C.: Child’s parasol, mid-19th century (205626). Sinkankas, John, Arlington, Va.: 1 golden calcite from Rosarita Beach, Baja, California, México (204598, ex- change) ; 1 enstatite specimen from In- dia (206504). (See South Da- (See Wyoming, (See National Photo- U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Skotzke, Sigmund C., Milwaukee, Wis.: 8 U. S. Naval covers and 299 as- sorted United States and foreign stamps, mostly used (205571). Slip, Roy. (See Clark, Col. Eugene S., Jr.) Smith, Dr. Allan, Pullman, Wash.: 116 plants from Ryukyu Islands (203050). Smith, Foster D., Jr., Upper Mont- clair, N. J.: 1 tinamou from Venezuela (208366). Smith, Frank R., Laurel, Md.: 1 shrew from Maryland (203802). Smith, Dr. Hobart M. University of) Smith, Marshall C., Moylan, Pa.: Waterman ‘Porto’ outboard boat en- gine, purchased in 1909 (202674). Smith, Maj. Robert B. W., Silver Spring, Md.: 3 Japanese birds (206442). Smith, Robert O. Lima, Pert: (Through Dr. Raymond M. Gilmore) 1 harbor porpoise captured by the donor off Callao, Peri (206525). Smith, Mrs. S. Watson, Tucson, Ariz. : 1 plant cultivated in Arizona (204770). Smith, William R., Falls Church, Va.: 1 stilbite from near Medford, Oreg. (202713, exchange) ; 1 prehnite and 6 casts of prehnite after calcite from Centreville, Va. (203120, exchange) ; hubnerite with scheelite reaction rim from Hamme tungsten mine, Tungsten, N. C., and 1 clinoclase from near Oat- lands, Va. (204465, exchange) ; 3 speci- mens phlogopite and 1 graphite from Canada, 1 specimen clinochlore from Virginia (205088, exchange). Smithson, C. D. (See Treasury De- partment, Bureau of Customs) Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.: Period household furnishings and prints from Mrs. Josephine Boardman Crane (deposit 206579). Found m collections: 2 etchings by G. B. Piranesi, “Veduta del Palazzo del’ Accademia,” and “Veduta sul Monte Zuirinale del Palazzo Eccelentissima” (203076, deposit); 11 different types of mar- bled paper (203077, deposit); 2 oc- tants (204107, deposit); 1 collotype by Ernest Edwards after engraving (See Illinois, DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS showing departure of Ulysses (204776) ; surveying instrument, telescopic sight compass (205530); pen and ink draw- ing of U. S. Steamer Curlew, Civil War period (205888, deposit); 1 seismo- graph and 20 specimens of acoustic ap- paratus from instrument room (205890, deposit); 1 Wedgwood queensware laboratory tray from taxidermy shop (2059038) ; 1 photogravure by Karl Klic entitled “C. Russell” (206345, deposit). Made in Laboratories: Cast of skull from Midland, Tex. (205791); 926 photographs and microfilm frames (206470). (See also following funds: Canfield, Chamberlain, Dahlgreen, Hickemeyer, Roebling, Springer, Wal- cott.) BurrEau oF AMERICAN HTHNOL- oay: Archeological materials consisting of potsherds collected by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling on Taboguilla Island in 1953 (202531) ; insects, 95 mammals, and 15 marine invertebrates from Southampton and Coats Islands col- lected by Dr. Henry B. Collins on Na- tional Geographic Society, National Museum of Canada, and Smithsonian Expedition, 1954 (203786) ; 385 plants collected by James Mooney at Cherokee Reservation, Qualla, N. C., in 1888 (204571) ; models of heraldry, peyote and game equipment, collected by James Mooney among the Kiowa Indians (205978) ; 1 badger from New Mexico (206445). River Basin Surveys: Arche- ological material from the Allatoona Reservoir area on the Etowah River, Cherokee, Bartow, and Cobb Counties, Ga. (202185) ; 327 specimens of archeo- logical material consisting of pot- sherds, copper, stone, bone and shell objects, from 3 sites in Tuttle Creek Reservoir, Pottawatomie County, Kans., collected by Missouri Basin Project field parties in 1952-53 (202358) ; 120 arche- ological specimens from site 35-WS-5, Dalles Reservoir on Columbia River, Wasco County, Oreg. (202532); arche- ological materials from the Conomaugh Reservoir, Pennsylvania, scattered sites in Marshall and Wetzel Counties, W. Va., and Cheatham and Old Hickory Reservoirs, Tenn., collected by Ralph S. 93 Solecki 1950 and 1954 (202587) ; arche- ological material from 2 sites in Ca- chuma Reservoir area on Santa Ynez River, Santa Barbara County, Calif. (203964) ; archeological material in and about Broncho Reservoir, Mercer County; Dickenson Reservoir Area, Stark County ; Koehler site, Heart Butte Reservoir, Grant County, all in North Dakota (205486) ; 21,046 archeological specimens from 2 sites in Oahe Reser- voir, Stanley County, S. Dak. (205487) ; archeological material from sites in and about Garrison Reservoir, in Dunn, Mercer, McLean, Mountrail, and Wil- liams Counties, N. Dak. (205438) ; 797 archeological specimens from Allatoona Reservoir area, Cherokee County, Ga. (205526) ; 3,648 archeological specimens from Montana, collected by the Missouri Basin Project (206347). (See also Solecki, Ralph.) NationaL Museum: Coliected: 427 plants collected in New Caledonia by M. G. Baumann-Boden- heim, University of Zurich, and associ- ates (202711) ; 16 marine invertebrates, 1 starfish, 14 mollusks, and 1 coral col- lected off the coast of Florida by Fred- erick M. Bayer and John E. Randall (208241) ; 31 birds and 5 mammals from Colombia, collected by M. A. Carriker, Jr. (203046) ; 8 jadeite and 2 sericite beads from various archeological zones in México through Dr. W. F. Foshag (202791); 23 small mammals from Southern Appalachian Highlands col- lected by Charles O. Handley, Jr. (206451) ; 3,445 piants from the Isle of Pines, Cuba, and the Florida Keys, col- lected by E. P. Killip (202635, 204454) ; 21 crustaceans, 1 reptile, 2,341 fishes, and 29 marine invertebrates from Georgia, North Carolina, South Caro- lina, and Virginia, collected by Dr. Hrnest A. Lachner and Dr. Frank Schwartz, September 1954 (203516) ; 2,850 plants and 166 land and fresh- water mollusks collected in México by Dr. Ernest R. Sohns (203775, 205907) ; 7 galeite specimens from Searles Lake, Calif., collected by George Switzer, August 1948 (205988) ; 195 plants col- lected in the Philippine Islands and 87 94 plants from other localities by Mr. E. H. Walker (203159, 203512); 959 bird skins, 54 skeletons, 2 alcoholics, 1 set eges, 9 mammals, 2 insects from Panamd4, and 3 mammals from Shenan- doah National Park, Va., collected by Dr. A. Wetmore (203850, 206512). Purchased: East Indian hand-mill or roller gin (202696) ; 117 beetles, includ- ing types, from South America (203582) ; mounted Japanese long-tailed fowl (203798) ; 11 mammal skins from Korea (204650). Natrona ZOOLOGICAL ParxK : 30 mammals (206447) ; (through Dr. William M. Mann) 42 birds (206441). (See also Landis, Martin A.) Smitter, Dr. Y. H., Johannesburg, Union of South Africa: 34 Upper Cre- taceous Foraminifera from the Union of South Africa (205645). Smout, Dr. A. H., London, England: 272 Foraminifera from Tertiary and Cretaceous of Middie East (203068, ex- change). Sniffen, Harold S. Museum) Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela: (Through Brother Ginés) 560 plants from Vene- zguela (200571, 203845) ; 14 shrimps and 4 crabs from Venezuela (202275). Socin, Prof. Constantino, Torino, Italy: 3 microsamples for Foraminif- era from Eocene of Northern Italy (204461, exchange). Solano, Solita, Morristown, N. J.: 2 fly larvae and host (mouse) (203109). Solecki, Ralph, New York, N. Y.: (Through Smithsonian Institution, Bu- reau of American Ethnology) 46 Ethno- graphical specimens collected in Iraq in 1951-53 (202536). Soukup, Dr. J., Lima, Pert: plants from Peri (204451, 205904). Soule, Lucia, Boston, Mass.: 1 U. S. Lincoln Indian Peace Medal of silver dated 1862 (205943). South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg: (Through F. Zumpt) 4 flies from Africa and 1 from Japan (205896). (See Mariners 137 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 South Dakota State College, Brook- ings, S. Dak.: (Through Prof. H. C. Severin) 1 beetle from United States (202988). Southern California, University of, Allan Hancock Foundation, Los An- geles, Calif.: (Through Dr. J. Laurens Barnard) 4 amphipods (202969, ex- change); (through Fred C. Ziesen- henne) 15 Ophiuroid paratypes (205205). Southern Methodist University, Dal- las, Tex.: 24 specimens of mosses (202976, exchange). Southern Rhodesia Geological Sur- vey Office, Salisbury: 8 minerals from Southern Rhodesia (205987) ; (through Dr. Eric Barlow) 1 simpsonite from Bikita District, Southern Rhodesia (204468, exchange). Sowerby, Arthur de C., Estate of: (Through Mrs. Arthur de C. Sowerby) Approximately 550 mollusks from South Africa, Okinawa, Gulf of Cali- fornia, and Trinidad, 1 alga and 8 echinoid tests (204550). Sowerby, Mrs. Arthur de C. Sowerby, Arthur de C., Estate of) Spangler, Paul J., Columbia, Mo.: 8 type beetles (202925). Spanton, H. G., Buenos Aires, Argen- tina: 8 South American philatelic specimens (206487, 205623). Sperry, Mrs. John L., Riverside, Calif. : 335 microlepidoptera from North America (202605). Speyer, E. R., Cheshunt, England: 119 thrips from England (203079). Springer Fund, Smithsonian Insti- tuition: 19 type and figured Ordovician, Silurian, and Mississippian crinoids from Oklahoma (203804) ; 42 Pennsyl- vanian crinoids of north-central Texas, including 29 types (204201). Springer, Stewart, Pascagoula, Miss. : 103 fossil shark’s teeth and vertebrae from Florida (204229). (See also In- terior, U. S. Department of the, Fish and Wildlife Service) Stahl, Barton E., Washington, D. C.: 1928 Westinghouse portable oscillo- graph (204111). (See DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Stainbrook, Dr. Merrill A., Brandon, Iowa: 2 foraminiferal samples from the Devonian of Iowa (205401). Stamp Collectors Club of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio: 1 first-day postcard, 4- cent airmail, Sept. 3, 1954, Philadelphia, Pa. (205610). Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. : 155 plants (204890, exchange). Stannard, Dr. Lewis J. (See Illi- nois Natural History Survey Division). Stanton, Douglas A., Falls Church, Va.: Slab of Oriskany sandstone from Gore, Va., containing 2 impressions of erinoid (203902). Stearns, Dr. Harold T., Hope, Idaho: 1 fossil gastropod from early Tertiary of Idaho (203086). Stearns, J. L., Philadelphia, Pa.: 9 plants collected in California (204380). Stearns, Richard E., Baltimore, Md.: 52 stone and pottery artifacts (202602). Steel, Dr. W. O., Maidenhead, Eng- land: 12 insect paratypes from Africa (182221, exchange). Steger, Daniel, Tampa, Fla.: 34 Gulf of México gastropods, including holo- types of 3 new species (201483) ; 1 mol- lusk from Florida (208903). Stehli, Dr. Francis G., Pasadena, Calif.: 1 color-marked type brachiopod from the Devonian of Northwest Terri- tories of Canada (204200). Steinberg, Joan, San Francisco, Calif.: 1 holotype marine invertebrate (204792). Stephen, W. A., Raleigh, N. C.: 2 moths from North Carolina (205404). Sterner, Oscar E., Syracuse, N. Y.: Edison C-150 phonograph (205422). Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J.: (Through Dr. Jess H. Davis) Curtis steam turbine (202632). Stevenson, Dr. John A. (See Agri- culture, U. S. Department of) Stick, Frank, Kitty Hawk, N. C.: (Through Isaac Ginsburg) 5 fishes from off Kitty Hawk, N. C. (203589). Stifler, Mrs. James M., Bradenton, Fla.: 3 cultivated ferns (203787). Stinton, Dr. F. C., Bournemouth, Eng- land: Approximately 750 otoliths of fossil fishes from Eocene Lower Barton 95 Beds, Highcliffe, Hampshire County, England (204671). Stockvis, A. P. (See Treasury, U. S. Department of, Secret Service) Stoddard, Herbert L., Sr., Thomas- ville, Ga.: 4 skins of Canadian geese (204664) ; 201 bird skins from south- eastern United States (205090). Stone, Theodore, Chevy Chase, D. C.: 10 mollusks from Long Island, N. Y. (202678). Strasburg, Dr. Donald W. University ) Strelak, Joseph S., Waukegan, IIl.: 74. first-day covers, cacheted airmail postcards, wrappers, and other phila- teliec specimens (204385, 205101, 205624, 205625, 206498, 206547). Strobell, Robert, Washington, D. C.: 1 Costa Rica envelope franked with 5-centimo uncanceled stamp (206503). Strott, Louis L., Marietta, Pa.: 1 cut star moonstone from Ceylon (204031). Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. A. Donaldson, Rutherford, N. J.: (Through Margaret Lambie) 5 cartes de visite by E. S. Dunshee, Napoleon Sarony, and Abra- ham Bogardus, and 1 photograph by Napoleon Sarony (206533). Stuart, Melville W. (See Jodidi, Mrs. Elizabeth) Stukenberg, Dr. B., Pietermaritz- burg, South Africa: 5 flies from South Africa (206067). Sundstrom, Gustaf T. (See Interior, U. 8S. Department of the, Fish and Wildlife Service) Sutton, Dr. George M., Norman, Okla.: 5 specimens of western mourn- ing dove (203910). Swain, Dr. Frederick M., Minneap- olis, Minn.: 161 ostracods, including 57 types, from Texas (205159). Swallen, Jason R., Washington, D. C.: 346 miscellaneous U. S. grasses (205547). Swanson, Dr. Earl H. ton, University of) Swoboda, Edward R., Los Angeles, Calif.: Garnet from Lake Jaco, Chihua- hua, México, 2 specimens of beryl and 1 kyanite from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and 2 clinozoisites from near Ensenada, Baja, Calif. (203958, exchange). (See Duke (See Washing- 96 Sydney, University of, Sydney, Aus- tralia: 81 plants collected in Australia by A. T. Hotchkiss (204104, exchange). Takayanagi, Dr. Yokichi, Sendai, Japan: 38 paratype Foraminifera from the Pliocene of Japan (203292, ex- change). Taibot, Dr. Mary, St. Charles, Mo.: Approximately 50 ants from North America (203334). Taliaferro, Philip A., Monroe, La.: 1 oyster specimen growing on a marble and 1 abnormal crab claw from Florida (206079). Tamaye, Dr. Francisco. (See Minis- tério de Agricultura y Cria) Tantz, Mrs. Minnia A., Baltimore, Md.: Mahogany drop leaf table (195554). Tasher, Dr. Lucy Lucile. Mrs. William T.) Tateoka, Tuguo, Misima, Sizuoka-ken, Japan: 47 grasses from Japan (205541, exchange). Tavora, Prof. Elysiaro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 2 minerals from Brazil (203554). Taylor, Mrs. A. N., Alexandria, Va.: 14 ethnographic specimens collected about 1890 by Miss Virginia Pride, aunt of donor, from the Matabele, Paarl, South Africa, seed necklace and 2 bracelets from island of St. Helena, Masonic watch fob, and 6 photographs of South African subjects (202712). Tearse, C. D., Winona, Minn.: 1 tor- toise shell tagalog headman’s helmet (205815). Telex, St. Paul, Minn.: 1 audiscope and i Telex Telemite hearing aid (205419). Templeman, Mrs. Eleanor Lee, Ar- lington, Va.: Small photograph of Har- riet Lane, niece of President James Buchanan and First Lady of the White House, 1857-1861 (205245); 5 articles of men’s and women’s clothing of mid- 19th and early 20th centuries (206544). Teuscher, Dr. George W. (See North- western University) Texas, University of, Austin, Tex.: 1 grass from Texas (202763); (through (See Moore, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Dr. Clark Hubbs) 66 fishes from Korea, and 5 crustaceans (2038515). Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Tex.: (Through Dr. Willis G. Hewatt) 300 marine mollusks from Texas (201275). Thailand Royal Forest Department, Bangkok: 20 samples of woods from Thailand (205889, exchange). Thienes, Dr. Clinton H., Pasadena, Calif.: 1 East Indies poison-arrow quiver and 14 poison-arrow darts (205009). Thomas, Edward S. Museum) Thomsen, Dr. J. M. Government of) Thorman, Emanuel, Arlington, Va.: Chinese slate gong and Chinese picture of the “tree of life’? (205705). Tidestrom, Ivar, St. Petersburg, Fla. : 173 plants collected in Sweden (205429). Tier, Mrs. Lillie K., Washington, D. C.: 3 dresses and fan, mid-19th cen- tury (202767); 1 patchwork and ap- plique quilt, basket design (205529). Tierney, Peter, Washington, D. C.: 1 Columbus King pocket watch (206344). Timberlake, P. H., Riverside, Calif. : 9 bees from United States (201256). Todd, Dr. E. L., Washington, D. C.: Approximately 2,575 miscellaneous moths from all over the world (203083). Todd, M. Ruth, Washington, D. C.: 1 Maryland yellowthroat (206448). Tokunage, Dr. Masaaki, Kyoto, Japan: 12 biting midges from Japan and Formosa (206566). Tomkins, Ivan R., Savannah, Ga.: 4 fresh-water mollusks from Altamaha River, Ga. (203885). Tomlinson, Jack, Berkeley, Calif. : 75 barnacles on 25 slides (202523). Tonti, Edmond C., Baton Rouge, La.: 50 Jate Hocene and Oligocene pectens (205095, exchange). Trainer, Mrs. John N., Brewster, N. Y.: The John N. Trainer collection of garnets, 600 specimens (204675). Traub, Lt. Col. Robert. (See De- fense, U. S. Department of, Department of the Army) (See Ohio State (See Australia, DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Treasury, U. S. Department of the, Washington, D. C.: 2 copies of the An- nual Assay Medal of bronze dated 1955 (205019). Bureau of Customs: (Through Mr. C. D. Smithson) 5 fire- arms (206481). Bureau of Engraving and Printing: 28 sample sheets of pa- per submitted with bids during Novem- ber 1878 for use in manufacture of U.S. currency (204614). Bureau of the Mint: (Through Philip B. Neisser) 2 pattern 5-cent pieces 1896, Philadelphia Mint, struck in aluminum (203131) ; (through Mrs. Rae V. Biester) 2 bronze medals of President Dwight D. Hisen- hower (204125, loan) ; 2 sets U. S. coins, 2 sets proof coin, 1955 issue (204796). Internal Revenue Service: 49,642 Inter- nal Revenue stamps (206483). Secret Service: (Through Robert Meyerburg and A. P. Stockvis) 28 counterfeit stamps (204718). Treat, Asher E., New York, N. Y.: 7 mites, eggs, and embryos, including 3 types, from Tyringham, Mass. (202980). Triton-East Africa Company, Sara- sota, Fla.: (Through Byron A. Riggle) 6 marine mollusks from Formosa Bay, Kenya, Hast Africa (204591). Trobridge, Gerry, Bayshore, Port of Spain, B. W. I.: 3 fishes (2048238). Troelsen, Dr. J. C., Copenhagen, Den- mark: 6 Foraminifera from the Cre- taceous of Denmark, including 4 para- types (203069) ; 609 Foraminifera from the Paleocene, Cretaceous, and Ter- tiary of Denmark (203330, 204263, 204468, exchange); 2 Woraminifera from the Pliocene of Italy (203773, exchange). Tropical Research Medical Labora- tery, San Juan, Puerto Rico: (Through Dr. Harold W. Harry) 479 shrimps and 12 crabs from Puerto Rico (204084). Tryon, Dr. R. M., Jr. Botanical Garden) Tsuneki, Dr. K., Fukui, Japan: 145 wasps from Japan (205995, exchange). Tucker, Grattan B., Miami Beach, Fla.: Political button inscribed ‘“An- drew Jackson, President, 1829” (202284). (See Missouri 97 Tulane University, New Orleans, La.: 6 diatoms from Louisiana, collected by Dr. R. M. Darnell (203370) ; (through Dr. Rezneat M. Darnell) sample of ma- vine diatoms (204009). Turner, Eugene A., Tryon, N. C.: Chinese silver dollar, 1928 (202597). Turver, Mrs. H. B., South Gate, Calif. : d3 Marine mollusks from Sonora, Méx- ico (202748). Tvedt, Reidar. (See United Nations Postal Administration) Tyler, Richard W., Umnak Island, Alaska: 16 plants of Alaska (204455). United Nations, Food and Agricul- ture Organization of the, Washington, D. C.: 44 plants from Afghanistan eol- lected by Dr. A. T. Semple (202618). United Nations Postal Administra- tion, New York, N. Y.: (Through Reidar Tvedt) 5 first-day covers, UNESCO ecommemoratives (205411, 205564, 206359). Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela: (Through Dr. F. Hernandez-Yepez) 37 butterflies from Venezuela (205000). Universidad Nacional de Eva Perén, Eva Peron, Argentina: 150 plants from Argentina (203974, exchange). Universitatis Jagellonicae, Cracow, Poland: 127 plants of Poland (204724, exchange). Université de Dijon, Dijon, France: (Through Professor Ciry) 637 Foram- inifera, ammonites, pelecypods, and brachiopods from the Jurassic and Cre- taceous of France (203123, exchange). Université de Rennes, Rennes, France: (Through Prof. Henry N. des Abbayes) 28 ferns from Africa (205550). Unknown donor: 28 _ postcards, printed in Switzerland, reproducing Swiss and foreign stamps in color and 1 cacheted envelope marking centennial of incorporation of Hlizabeth, N. J. (206366) ; 3 first-day covers, and 1 posteard with “First Day of Issue” can- cellation (206501). Uppsala, University of, Uppsala, Sweden : 88 phanerogams, 35 grasses, 17 98 ferns from Sweden and Arctic Norway (206352, exchange). Usinger, Dr. Robert L. Berkeley, Calif.: 2 bugs from Micronesia and 2 from Guam, paratypes (204433, 205002). Utah, University of, Salt Lake City, Utah: (Through Dr. Walter P. Cottam) 1 plant from Arizona (203848). Utah State Agricultural College, Intermountain Herbarium, Logan, Utah: 148 phanerogams, 48 grasses (206467, exchange). Valle, Rafael Heliodoro, Washington, D. C.: 53 cancelled postage stamps from Latin America (204743). van den Bruel, Dr. W. E. gium, Government of) Van-der Hoef, Col. George T., and Mrs. Harriet Bellamy Van-der Hoef, Washington, D. C.: 10-keyed transverse flute marked “H EF Meyer, Hannover” (203769). Van-der Hoef, Mrs. Harriet Bellamy. (See Van-der Hoef, Col. George T.) Vanegas P., Sr. Agustin. (See Nica- ragua, Government of) Van Ells, Dr. M. E., Sr., Ann Arbor, Mich.: 1 alga, 2 marine invertebrates, and 4 toads from Michigan (202942, 203474). Van Noten, Jean, Englewood, N. J.: 12 Belgian Rotary International stamps and 6 Belgian semipostals, autographed by donor as designer (204896, 206495). _ Vatikiotis, Sezon, Tarpon Springs, Fla.: Approximately 180 marine, land, and fresh-water mollusks from Oaxaca, México (202771). Vaurie, Patricia. (See American Mu- seum of Natural History) Vazquez, Alberto W., Arlington, Va.: 2 erayfishes from Gasconade River, Pulaski County, Mo. (202522) ; 5 small mammals and 89 mollusks:-from Mis- souri and Virginia (202650). Verner, Jared, Moscow, Idaho: 8 birds from Ecuador (204269, exchange). Verrill, A. Hyatt, Chiefland, Fla.: 4 ant lions from Florida (203084, 206529) ; 11 marine mollusks from Flor- ida and Dominica, B. W. I. (203761) ; 4 reptiles from Chiefland, Fla., collected by donor (203839). (See Bel- U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Vickrey, Mrs. Emma Mae, Chevy Chase, Md.: 10 ethnological specimens from the San Blas Indians of southeast- ern Panama, collected by donor in 1932 (203188). Vigneaux, Dr. Michel, Bordeaux, France: 400 samples of Foraminifera from the Tertiary near Bruges, France (203192, exchange). Villalobes, Dr. Alejandro, México, D. F.: 22 isopods, 31 crayfishes and 1 erab from México, including types (194157, 196171, 204188, exchange). Virgin Islands, Government of, De- partment of the Interior, Office of Terri- tories, St. Croix: (Through G. A. Sea- man) 2 rats from St. Croix (205203). Vitan, Alberto, Manila, P. I.: 18 min- iature Moro weapons made and mounted on hardwood shield at Bilibid prison (206464). Viadykov, Dr. Vadim D., Quebec, Que- bec: 3 specimens of argulids (205636). Volta Bureau for the Deaf, Washing- ton, D. C.: Audiphone bone-conduction hearing aid invented by R. S. Rhodes, 1879 (205532). Voss, Gilbert L., Coral Gables, Fla.: 38 nudibranchs from the Bahamas and 2 snapping shrimps (203209, 203279). (See also Howard, Col. John K.) Voss, Mrs. Gilbert. (See Miami, Uni- versity of) Wager, Dr. L. R. versity Museum) Walcott Fund, Smithsonian Institu- tion: 500 Middle Devonian invertebrate fossils collected by Dr. G. A. Cooper in central New York, 1955 (185108) ; 2,000 microsamples for Foraminifera, and ap- proximately 3,500,000 invertebrate fos- sils from Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Ceno- zoie of England, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, and Austria, collected by Dr. A. R. Loeblich, Jr., 1953-54, 18 Middle Hocene fishes from Italy and 1 boehmite (bauxite) from Engardine Mine, Var, France (195551) ; 153 Cretaceous Foraminifera, 30 Cretaceous microfossil samples, and 250 Cretaceous brachiopods from Eng- land (203074) ; approximately 607 speci- mens of fossil Mammalia from the (See Oxford Uni- DONORS Paleocene and Lower Hocene of south- central and southwestern Wyoming, col- lected by C. L. Gazin and Franklin L. Pearce, JuneJuly 1954 (203298) ; 15,000 invertebrate fossils from Missis- sippian and Devonian of Iowa, Missouri, and New Mexico, Ordovician of central Nevada, Mississippian of Indiana, and Pennsylvanian of Illinois, collected by Dr. G. A. Cooper and R. J. Main, June 1954 (208298) ; 182 Triassic brachiopods (203301) ; 1,000 Ordovician and Penn- sylvanian echinoderms and Ordovician and Silurian trilobites from Oklahoma (203518) ; 1,000 Mesozoic brachiopods, 60 Mesozoic ammonites, and 300 Per- mian invertebrate fossils, all from Sicily (204102); approximately 271 fossil fishes, reptiles and associated inverte- brates collected by Dr. David H. Dunkle in Park County, Wyo.; Paris, Idaho; Cache and San Juan Counties, Utah, during July, August, and September 1954 (204207) ; 165 Foraminifera from the Tertiary of Czechoslovakia (204802) ; 48 foraminiferal samples of Miocene from Florida, and Cretaceous from Oklahoma and Texas (205008). Walden, Mrs. Mayme Ruhelmann (de- ceased): (Through Sylvia Walden) 2 notes issued by Hagerstown Bank, Md., 1814, and Phenix Bank of New York, 1822 (202755). Walden, Sylvia. Mayme Ruhelmann) Walker, Boyd W. University of) Walker, Dale R., Delaware, Ohio: Fossil fish median dorsal plate, collected in 1952 by donor from Devonian of Dela- ware County, on Weiser Run, near Dela- ware, Ohio (202603). Walker, Dr. Egbert H., Washington, D. C.: 7 plants from Maryland and Vir- ginia and 11 from Shenandoah National Park (202761, 206562); 1 sponge and 2 crabs from Maine (203348). Walker, Dr. J. F. (See Gulf Coast Research Laboratory) Ward, Philip H., Jr. Philadelphia, Pa.: 42 philatelic specimens (204117). Wark, Mrs. Florence C., Henderson- ville, N. C.: 4 dresses, ca. 1890, a Chi- (See Walden, Mrs. (See California, TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS 99 nese child’s jacket, and pair of wedding slippers (2038304). Warner-Chilcott Laboratories, New York, N. Y.: (Through Elmer H. Bobst) Copper pill-rolling pan used in mid-19th century by William R. Warner to manu- facture America’s first mass-produced sugar-coated pills, and copper pitcher for pouring sugar syrup in this manu- facturing process (203207). Washington, University of, Seattle, Wasb.: (Through Dr. Earl H. Swan- son) 4 fresh-water mussel shells from archeological sites near Vantage, Wash. (202577) ; (through Dr. Arthur W. Martin) 8 fresh-water mussels from King County, Wash. (202617); (through Dr. Douglas Osborne) 4 fresh- water mussel shells from archeological sites near Vantage, Wash. (203424). Arboretum: 5 plants (202765). Washington, State College of, Pull- man, Wash.: (Through Dr. George H. Hudson) 18 mammals from southeast Alaska (201617) ; (through Dr. Maurice T. James) 10 flies from North America (203681, exchange). Waskey, Frank, Olney, Md.: 1 vivia- nite from near Cape Vancouver, Nelson Island, Alaska (204728). Wass, Marvin L., Pass-a-Grille, Fla.: Approximately 1,000 marine inverte- prates (203280). Watkins, C. Malcolm, Washington, D. C.: Stoneware jug and fragment of melting pot from Kohlenburg Glass Works (205900). Watters, Bruce W., St. Petersburg, Fla.: 5 conductor’s batons of ebony, ivory, and gold, originally presented by Anna Held and others to Frank N. Darling (201949). Weaver, Mrs. Alicia Barnes, Wash- ington, D. C.: Embroidered curtain from Baghdad, Iraq, imported from Turkey about 1880 (204603). Weaver, B. Woodruff, Washington, D. C.: 6 pieces of furniture, 19th cen- tury, for exhibit in First Ladies’ Hall (206542, loan). Webb, J. H., Rochester, N. Y.: 52 mis- cellaneous marine mollusks (203426) ; 1 marine mollusk from Japan (205753). 100 Weber, Walter A., Washington, D. C.: 1 bobcat from Adirondack Mountains, N. ¥. (208897). Webster, Frances M., Washington, D. C.: Machete with brown leather seabbard, of Mexican War period (204038). Wedderburn, Alexander J., Wash- ington, D. C.: 4 Egyptian “British Evacuation” stamps, 1954 (204196); 1 Heyptian cover with 5 stamps, includ- ing 2 with King Farouk portrait (204901). Wellington, J. W., Fort Yates, N. Dak.: Pair of dolls made by Assiniboin Indian woman (206348). Wells, Dr. John W., Ithaca, N. Y.: Approximately 400 corals from Aus- tralia; also some aleyonarians and sponges (205168). Wells, Dr. William H. (See Defense, Department of, Department of the Navy) West Virginia University, Morgan- town, W. Va.: 43 plants from south- eastern United States (206475, ex- change). Westchester County Coin Club, New Rochelle, N. Y.: 20th Anniversary medal of the Westchester County Coin Ciub, New York, 1954 (202627). Western Australia, University of, Nedlands: 111 Paleozoic and Mesozoic invertebrate fossils from Western Aus- tralia (208969, exchange). Westgate, Dr. Philip J. (See Florida, University of) Weston Electrical Instrument Corp., Newark, N. J.: (Through John Miller) Collection of electrical measuring in- struments (203371). Westrex Corporation, New York, N. ¥.: Western electric disk recording machine (205598). Wetmore, Dr. Alexander, Washing- ton, D. C.: 1 partially webbed foot of a mallard duck (196326) ; 17 miscella- neous coins and tokens of the 19th cen- tury, 1 Canadian 1-dollar bank note, 35 foreign coins of modern issue and 2 Canadian coins (202745, 208594, 204268); 1 Tele-Photo A camera (203616) ; tobacco pipe of incised hard- U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 wood collected by donor in 1920 from Toba Indians at Riacho Pilagi, Terri- tory of Formosa, northern Argentina (208965); 4 skeletons of wren-tit (204475) ; 8 casts of fossil bird bones (205712). (See also Smithsonian In- stitution ) Whalen, William F., Bronx, N. Y.; 1 glauecochroite from Franklin, N. J. and 1 roeblingite (204742, exchange). Wheeler, Prof. G. C. (See North Dakota, University of) Wheeler, Dr. Marshall, Austin, Tex.: 16 paratypes of ephydrid flies from North America (205407). Wherry, Dr. Edgar T., Philadelphia, Pa.: 1 fern from Virginia (205432). Whetzel, Carl S., Washington, D. C.: 2 specimens of ore from Chungchong Namdo, Korea (206565). White, Marcus W., Worcester, Mass. : 17 philatelic specimens (204375). White Motor Company, Arlington, Va.: (Through H. G. Collin) 2 model “White 3000” kits of truck used for mail transportation (205274). Whitford, Hope, Washington, D. C.: Green moire taffeta dress worn by the wife of Gov. N. G. Ordway at the White House during the Administration of President Abraham Lincoln (205722). Whitmore, Maj. David A., Alexandria, Va.: Pair of Korean leather shoes (203586) ; 9 items of Korean costume and a collection of Korean coins and paper curreney (206515). Whittington, Dr. Harry B., Cam- bridge, Mass.: 9 Mississippian brachio- pods from Belgium, and 61 Permian brachiopods from Glass Mountains (204466, exchange). Wigley, Roland L. (See Interior, U. S. Department of, Fish and Wildlife Service) Wileex, Leroy, Speonk, N. Y.: 200 marine mollusks from Varadero Beach, Cuba (203926). Wilcox, Mrs. Marie Bullock, Wash- ington, D. C.: 2 boy’s dresses, ca. 1850; 16 miscellaneous costume accessories of 19th century; foot warmer and wall mirror (202768). DONORS TO THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS Wildenauer, Herr Direktor. (See Bayerisches Feldspatwerk) Wilder, May, Washington, D. C.: 28 ethnographical specimens of Afghan material culture, collected by donor in 1954 in Afghanistan (206463). Wilkinson, Mrs. Howard S. (de- ceased): (Through Madeleine Wilkin- son) 386 specimens of Americana (202517). Wilkinson, Madeleine, Washington, D. C.: 65 pieces of costumes and acces- sories, late 18th and early 20th centur- ies, 4 pieces French brocade, records of White House Thanksgiving Day Serv- ice, Novy. 26, 1942, and 1 linen handker- chief with floral printed border (204821). (See also Wilkinson, Mrs. Howard) William and Mary, College of, Wil liamsburg, Va.: 24 plants collected in Virginia by Dr. J. T. Baldwin, Jr. (204558, exchange). Williams, Dr. Austin B., Morehead City, N. C.: 25 shrimps, including types (202995). Williams, Col. F. M. Miami, Fla.: Portrait of donor by Joseph Cummings Chase (204902). Williams, J. C., Brooklyn, N. Y.: 1 celt from Amazon Drainage, Brazil, col- lected by donor in 1910 (204719). Williams, Dr. J. Stewart, Logan, Utah: Lower jaw of fossil mammal ¢el- lected by Bob Adamson from Norwood tuff on the north side of Norwood Can- yon, Morgan County, Utah (203708) ; 7 fossil fishes collected by donor from Lower Triassic Woodside formation at mouth of Paris Canyon, Bear Lake County, Idaho (204331). Williams, Dr. Ralph B., Juneau, Alaska: 1 nematomorph worm from Alaska (198737) Williams, Dr. Roger W., New York, N. Y.: 39 biting midges from Michigan, including types of new species (206068). Wills, Margaret L. Washington, D. C.: 1 pistol, and 1 Belgian revolver (204266). ; Wilson, E.O. (See Harvard College) Wilson, Kenneth A, Ann Arbor, Mich.: 1 fern from Jamaica (205253). 101 Wilson, Mrs. Mildred S., Anchorage, Alaska: 2 type specimens of copepods from Louisiana (203927) ; 2 fresh-water copepods, from Benton County, Oreg. (204166). Wilson, William M., Philadelphia, Pa.: 2 first-day covers issued at Phila- delphia (205606). Winokur, Dr. William and Winokur, Seymour, Detroit, Mich.: 2 books, “Postage Stamps of Japan” by Wood- ward, and “Stamps of México, 1856- 1868” by Chapman (204482). Winokur, Seymour. (See Winokur, Dr. William) Winslow, Mrs. Francis, Chevy Chase, Md.: 1 parian figurine and 1 gilt and mahogany pedestal, mid-19th century (205246). Winslow, Harriet, Washington, D. C.: 1 pair of 19th-century brass andirons (206490). Wisconsin, University of, Madison, Wis.: 19 plants (201456). Witt, William Lee, Arlington, Va.: 11 fresh-water mollusks from Florida and Georgia (208716). Women’s International Stamp Club, Brookiyn, N. Y.: (Through Agnes Bur- lingame) 1 cacheted envelope “Women’s International Stamp Club Honors A. Lincoln on its 20th Anniversary,” post- marked Lineoln City, Ind., Feb. 12, 1955, franked with 4-cent Lincoln 1954 issue (205568). Wong, J. N. (See International Ryu- kyu Stamp and Coin Society) Wood, Prof. Alan, Aberystwyth, Wales: 5 Lower Eocene Foraminifera from Pakistan (203060) ; 2 thin sections of a Silurian foraminifer from Great Britain (203191, exchange). Woed, Dr. Stephen L., Ottawa, Canada: 16 beetles from United States, including types (200887). Woodceck, H. E., Chicago, Ill.: 205 miscellaneous moths from South Amer- ica (203082). Woodruff, Dr. John G., Hamilton, N. Y.: 1 starfish from Devonian, Hamil- ton formation, Lebanon, N. Y. (203609, exchange). 102 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Woodruff, Pauline B. (deceased) :| utensils, and a woman’s fighting brace- (Through Col. Theodore Barnes, Jr.) 1 Chinese lacquer screen (204663). Woods, Loren P. (See Chicago Natu- ral History Museum) Wrather, Dr. W. E., Washington, D. C.: 1 lot bryozoans from Alaska (206014). Wright, Robert. (See Commerce, U. S. Department of, Weather Bureau) Wright, Dr. W. H. (See Health, Edu- cation and Welfare, U. S. Department of, National Institutes of Health) Wyoming, University of, Laramie, Wyo.: 1 grass from Wyoming (203544) ; (through Dr. Ralph F. Honess) approxi- mately 3,056 fresh-water and land mol- lusks, 315 marine invertebrates, and 20 inseets from Wyoming (202011, 203250); (through Dr. Alan B. Shaw) 133 Permian fossils from Phosphoria formation of Wyoming (204803, ex- change). Yale University, New Haven, Conn.: 1 grass from Perti (203369) ; (through Neal E. Miller) calculator, Dr. Clark Hull’s coordination machine (205424). Yasumatsu, Dr. Keizo, Fukuoka, Ja- pan: 3 paratypes of wasps from Japan (205998) . Yates, Mrs. Lucile W., McLean, Va.: 1 Kentucky warbler (205976). Yedlin, Neal, New Haven, Conn.: 4 specimens of bertrandite from Collins Hills, Conn. (205556). Yilek, Joan, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 34 ethnographical specimens collected by donor at Pokwo, Ethiopia, consisting of skin costumes and baby carriers, ob- jects of personal adornment, amulets, pottery, basketry, decorated gourd let (206520). Yogore, Dr. Mariana G., Jr., Balti- more, Md.: 3 crabs collected in Sorso- gon Province, southernmost tip of Luzon Island, Philippines (204449). Youngquist, Dr. Walter L. (See Humphrey, Dr. Fred L.) Yugoslavia, Government of, Bel- grade: (Through Mirko Radalj) 19 philatelic specimens from Yugoslavia (204476) ; (through V. Ognjenovic) 6 philatelic items from Yugoslavia (206535) . Zayas, Ing. de F. (See Estacién Ex- perimental Agronémica) Zears, Charlotte KE. (deceased): (Through The Riggs National Bank) Decorated gourd from Siam (201855, bequest). Zeiss, Arnold, Munich, Germany: 13 foraminiferal samples from the Juras- sie of Bavaria (206507). Zenith Radio Corporation, Chicago, Tll.: 5 hearing aids (205418). Zetek, James. (See Benson Grub- stakers, and Panam& Canal Natural History Society) Ziesenhenne, Fred C. (See Southern California, University of) Zimmerman, HE.