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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 


REPORT ON THE 
PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF THE 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1945 


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Washington, D. C., November 1, 1946. 


Str: Ihave 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, 1945. 

Very respectfully, 
ALEXANDER WETMORE, 
Director, U. S. National Museum. 
THE SECRETARY, 
Smithsonian Institution. 
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CONTENTS 


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Miecrngs and, special-exhibits:.. 2) 220. 222 2 ba ye ee 13 
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REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF 
THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR 
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1945 


By ALEXANDER WETMORE 


Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Director of the 
United Siates National Museum 


OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 


APPROPRIATIONS 


Funps available for the National Museum for the fiscal year ended 
June 30, 1945, were provided by the appropriation ‘‘Salaries and 
Expenses, Smithsonian Institution” in the Independent Offices 
Appropriation Act approved June 27, 1944. These allotments are 
summarized as follows: 


Nazional Museumon? orsigow to ujiioelrewe add _o $444, 151 
Maintenanceiand operation. 2215-222. s..-4.-ile. 451, 843 
Prmecinerancibincimo an he ee ees ee 43, 000 

Potalvavailable for yearsies te. Soe ee ee 938, 994 


The allotment ‘National Museum” is concerned with the national 
collections in natural history, anthropology, engineering and the 
industries, and history, including their exhibition, preservation, and 
increase as well as research based on them. The allotment for 
““Maintenance and Operation” is for maintaining, operating, and 
guarding the buildings. The allotment for ‘‘Printing and Binding” 
covers the cost of publications and the necessary binding of books 
and pamphlets in the Museum library. 

In addition to the regular appropriation, $10,525 was received for 
promotions granted under Public Law 200. The amount allotted 
for overtime service was $1,001 less than in the fiscal year 1944, but 
since this is a year-to-year allotment it has no influence on the amount 
of service available for the regular operation of the Museum. There 
was no change from 1944 in the funds available for miscellaneous 
expenses, for printing and binding, or for the personal services avail- 
able to the Museum. 

Owing to the serious reduction of personnel under the ceiling 
established in 1943, and to the necessity of continuing informational 


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and research services to the war agencies, it was necessary to postpone 
certain activities of the Museum. The functions most adversely 
affected by these wartime restrictions related to accessions, publica- 
tions, cataloging and classification, renovation of exhibitions, and the 
normal research of the Museum. ‘These difficulties were increased by 
considerable delays in filling vacancies and by the impossibility of 
obtaining certain sorely needed supplies and equipment. It is to 
the great credit of the staff that the varied activities of the Museum 
proceeded so well under these adversities. This has been possible 
only through their industry and ingenuity and the realization that 
they are the custodians of a trust that must be preserved for the science 
and culture of future generations of our Nation. 

The principal factors that still retard the work of the Museum 
are lack of adequate space, shortage of personnel, and. inadequate 
supplies and equipment. The national collections include one of the 
most complete gatherings of scientific materials of the kind in the 
world and contain much information that canbe usefulin the develop- 
ment of our natural resources, our agriculture, and our industry. 
The extent to which this usefulness can be realized is directly related 
to the personnel available to unlock this knowledge, to the space 
that will permit the proper arrangement and accessibility of the col- 
lections, and to the availability of working tools that will facilitate 
the study of the collections. It is planned that with the cessation of 
hostilities the Museum will resume many of its activities that were 
postponed owing to the heavy requirements placed upon the Nation 
by the global war. 

Consideration of plans for additional housing was kept steadily 
in mind and the various projects were reconsidered to bring them down 
to date and have them in readiness whenever a program for public 
buildings was initiated. Additions to the Natural History Building 
through wings at either end have already been authorized by the 
Congress. The continuation of Ninth Street through the Mall to 
provide a through traffic lane across this section will cut through the 
eastern end of the present Arts and Industries Building, an anti- 
quated brick structure completed in 1883 at a cost of $225,000, which 
is no longer suitable for modern installations in museum display. 
At the present time it is badly crowded and offers only a part of the 
space necessary for the great fields of interest that it is supposed to 
accommodate. Our program includes a separate building for Engi- 
neering and Industries, which will cover the field of aviation, in 
which the Smithsonian has the most historically important collection 
in the country. This collection should be displayed in an appropriate 
manner with space to include many additional objects. There is 


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great need as well for further room for expansion in all the industrial 
collections, which cover the record of American ingenuity and pro- 
gress, and are thus the story of the growth and development of our 
Nation along these lines. 

A separate building for American history is also planned, our 
present collections being displayed in the Arts and Industries Building. 
The existing space that can be assigned to this subject is badly crowded 
with no hope of necessary expansion in its present quarters. The 
collections contain some of the most valuable objects of their kind in 
existence, and they are viewed annually by many thousands of our 
citizens. The years of war that have just closed will yield many more 
mementos that must be displayed adequately for present and future 
generations. A building should be dedicated to this purpose alone. 

The two projects, one for a building for engineering and the indus- 
tries and one for a building for history, have been estimated for 
authorization by Congress. 


COLLECTIONS 


In examining the list of accessions acquired during the year it has 
been interesting to observe the steady flow of valuable specimens into 
the Museum collections. Most of the lots have been small but the 
ageregate number has been about average, a surprising fact in view of 
the widespread condition of war. A large part of the specimens came 
from service men and represented extensive areas from which we have 
had little or no material before. Specimens from various remote 
islands in the Pacific area are especially notable and in some instances 
are equal in importance to larger sendings from some of the con- 
tinental areas. 

New material came in 1552 separate lots, with a total of 232,822 
specimens, distributed among the five departments as follows: 
Anthropology, 6,642; biology, 197,462; geology, 23,770; engineering 
and industries, 3,199; history, 1,749. 

For examination and report 1,122 lots of specimens were received, 
covering all the fields embraced in our laboratories, an increase of 398 
over last year. Some of this material is returned to the senders and 
some that is especially desirable remains as an addition to the Muse- 
um/’s collections. 

Gifts of duplicates to schools, museums, and other institutions 
numbered 1,089 specimens. Exchanges of duplicate materials with 
other collections amounted to 19,351 specimens, and 1,782 specimens 
were transferred by request to other governmental agencies. Loans 
for scientific study to investigators outside Washington totaled 28,065 
specimens. The summary of the collections given below has been 


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adjusted to reflect additions and eliminations from the various series 
and represents the material cataloged at the close of the fiscal year. 


AD CNTODOLORY 2 oo Ser mee oe rR er ee er a 719, 333 
Biology Soe 282 toe rere oie Cee ee eee ee 14, 047, 650 
Geolopy: -o8La. 2. sete tet . opr nie Ane! aL ee 2, 710, 613 
Engineering. and industries got 29 te Se 142, 624 
FUIstomys: eis yea a Sih cla i 2 ake A ae eal ie 531, 180 

Potala Ae lee cee oe re. ae eee 18, 151, 400 


EXPLORATIONS AND FIELD WORK 


The principal studies in the field, like those of last year, related 
directly or indirectly to the war and were considerably reduced below 
the usual level of times of peace. The results, however, were valuable 
and covered a variety of subjects. 

In continuation of the program for the promotion of cultural 
relations with scientists in the other American republics in cooperation 
with the Department of State, Dr. E. A. Chapin, curator of insects, 
traveled in Chile for work in connection with entomologists and 
entomological collections in that country. Upon his arrival in San- 
tiago arrangements were made by the Chilean Government for him 
to visit forested areas, both natural and artificial, the agricultural 
extension stations, and the agricultural schools in southern Chile 
between Santiago and the Island of Chiloé. About five weeks were 
spent on this trip, and many important contacts were made. Although 
the season was unfavorable, some very interesting insects were ob- 
served and collected. The last three weeks of Dr. Chapin’s 2-month 
sojourn were spent in Santiago, where considerable work was done 
on the Chilean national collection at the museum. Arrangements 
were also made to assist the department of agriculture in Chile in 
their white-grub investigations and exchanges were arranged with 
certain collectors in Santiago. 

In connection with this same program of cultural cooperation with 
the American republics, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, curator of physical 
anthropology, went to Mexico on March 8, returning on June 23. 
The primary purpose of this trip was to give training in methods of 
osteometry to the graduate students of the Escuela Nacional de 
Antropologia. Owing to the recent activities of the Instituto de 
Antropologia e Historia, of which the Escuela and Museo Nacional 
are part, Mexico is now one of the leading anthropological centers 
in this hemisphere. The subject of physical anthropology is handled 
by such able workers as Dr. D. F. Rubin de la Borbolla, the acting 
director of the Escuela, Sr. Javier Romero, curator in the Museo, 
Dr. Juan Comas, and Srta. Ada d’Aloja. Under them young students 
are developing who already have had extensive field experience. In 
addition, Dr. Stewart was able to study a collection of skeletal remains 


OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 5 


in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia collected by Dr. Eduardo 
Noguera earlier in the year at Xochicalco. This collection, although 
small, is unusually well preserved, and contains interesting examples 
of tooth mutilation and cranial deformity. The teaching and research 
supplemented each other, as the Xochicalco collection was used for 
demonstration purposes, particularly as regards restoration, sexing, 
aging, and pathological changes. Much interest in this field of 
research has developed as a result of this work. 

The Department of Anthropology was further represented in the 
good-will program by the detail of Herbert W. Krieger, curator of 
ethnology, to attend conferences and conduct surveys at Isabela, 
Dominican Republic, relative to the exact location and possible 
restoration of the settlement established there by Christopher 
Columbus. | 

Another project was concerned with work in Haiti by Dr. Alfred 
Métraux, of the Institute of Social Anthropology, from September 18 
to November 30. His investigations concerned anthropology and 
were made for the Museum in cooperation with the Bureau of Eth- 
nology of Haiti and the Scientific Society of Haiti. For one month 
Dr. Métraux conducted cooperative archeological investigations on 
Tortue Island in the north, and for another month he was in Port-au- 
Prince engaged in lectures and anthropological investigations. During 
the entire period Dr. Métraux maintained close contact with the 
Scientific Society, for which he organized seminars for the discussion 
of anthropology. 

In continuation of the ornithological reconnaissance of northeastern 
Colombia, M. A. Carriker, Jr., went into the field to complete the 
examination of the valley separating the Sierra Nevada de Santa 
Marta from the Sierra Perijé. At the end of the fiscal year he had 
moved into the lower elevations of the Sierra Nevada where this range 
extends to the east toward the Guajira desert. Excellent results 
were reported in additional specimens for our rich collections from this 
area. ‘This work is financed by the income of the W. L. Abbott fund. 

A few local collections were made by Dr. Leonard P. Schultz and 
Dr. Robert R. Miller, curator and associate curator of fishes, respec- 
tively, who secured fossils at Scientists Cliffs, on Chesapeake Bay, and 
fishes from various creeks in the State of Maryland. 

Several of the insect specialists made extensive, largely local, 
collections within their own groups, some 3,000 specimens being added 
to the national collections through these efforts. Numerous new 
forms were obtained through these collections, especially to the coleop- 
terous larvae and the Aleyrodidae. Most of the aleyrodid material 
was obtained by Miss Louise Russell from preserved plant material in 
the National Herbarium and in the herbarium of the New York 
Botanical Gardens. 


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Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, and Dr. J. P. E. Morrison, 
assistant curator, conducted several field trips for the purpose of 
acquainting members of the staffs of the National Naval Medical 
Center, Naval Medical School, and the National Institute of Health 
with the habitat of certain mollusks that might serve as intermediate 
hosts of trematode worms. 

Paul 8. Conger, associate curator in charge of the diatom collection, 
spent several weeks in the region of the Chesapeake Biological Labora- 
tory in investigations concerning the food and fattening of oysters and 
other problems of diatom ecology. Mr. Conger’s researches were 
sponsored by the Maryland Board of Natural Resources. 

Dr. G. Arthur Cooper, curator of invertebrate paleontology, in 
company with Dr. Byron N. Cooper, of the Virginia Geological Survey, 
carried on further investigations in the complicated geology and 
paleontology of the nearby Appalachian Valley, during two brief field 
trips. The first, in July 1944, was designed to study facies changes 
in the Ordovician limestone (Chambersburg formation) from its type 
area near Chambersburg, Pa., to a point in the vicinity of Staunton, 
Va. About 2 weeks were spent in the study, which resulted in inter- 
esting information and good collections. 

A second trip, which included Dr. Raymond 8. Edmundson, also of 
the Virginia Geological Survey, extended these studies through the 
Ordovician rocks of southern Virginia and Tennessee. The party 
began the study about the middle of October near Athens, Tenn., and 
visited type sections of Ordovician formations in Virginia and Ten- 
nessee to see if the Tennessee formations could berecognized in southern 
Virginia. The men worked from Athens north to Knoxville, then went 
to Clinton, Tenn., and worked from there to Cumberland Gap in 
northern Tennessee. From here they traveled for a short distance 
along the Cumberland Front and on to Natural Bridge, and then to 
Harrisonburg to tie the studies into the work of the early part of the 
summer. ‘The study was completed early in November. 

The curator of mineralogy and petrology, Dr. W. F. Foshag, con- 
tinued his supervision of surveys for strategic minerals in Mexico. 

At the end of January 1944, Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant 
secretary, with Dr. J. P. E. Morrison, assistant curator, division of 
mollusks, as assistant, went to Panama in connection with some 
biological investigations for the War Department. Dr. Wetmore 
returned late in March leaving Dr. Morrison to continue the work 
until October. As one result the Museum now has extensive collec- 
tions of birds, mollusks, and reptiles as well as valuable lots in other 
fields from some islands of the Archipiélago de las Perlas (Pearl Islands) 
that have not been known well previously. 


OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 74 


THE MUSEUM IN WARTIME 


It was with considerable relief that we were able during the year to 
bring back to Washington the thousands of valuable type specimens 
and other irreplaceable objects that early in the war had been removed 
from the Capital for safekeeping in the event of enemy air raids on the 
city. Return of this material, which aggregated more than 60 tons, 
was completed in November 1944, and by the end of the year most of 
the specimens had been reinstalled. 

As in previous years since 1941, all possible efforts of the staff were 
concentrated on projects related to the prosecution of the war, directly 
or indirectly, though naturally these lessened toward the close of the 
year, as the end of the war became imminent. Again this year several 
members of the staff were called upon for work in connection with the 
Department of State’s program for cultural cooperation with the other 
American republics. This entailed travel and study in Mexico and the 
Dominican Republic, respectively, by two Museum anthropologists, 
and in Chile by the curator of insects. Strategic geological work was 
conducted in Mexico in cooperation with the Geological Survey; and 
biological investigations in Panama were made for the War Depart- 
ment by two Museum staff members. Others undertook specific 
research projects directly connected with the war and its attendant 
disease, food, and other problems. Still others were granted furloughs 
for military service or for work with the Office of Strategic Services 
and other war agencies. Hundreds of specimens were identified for 
the Army and Navy, and special attention was given to material sent 
in by members of the Armed Services from remote corners of the earth 
where few or no collectors had previously been. All these activities 
add up to considerable when their far-flung results are carefully 
evaluated, and the Museum staff may be justly proud of its part in 
the war effort which now has ended so victoriously. 


VISITORS 


An increase of 197,951 visitors to the Museum buildings was re- 
corded over the previous year, the totals being 1,730,716 for 1945 and 
1,532,765 for 1944. August 1944 was the month of largest attendance, 
with 183,394 visitors; July, the second largest, with 177,065. Records 
for the four buildings show the following number of visitors: Smith- 
sonian Building, 342,762; Arts and Industries Building, 674,920; 
Natural History Building, 531,712; Aircraft Building, 181,322. 

A summary of attendance records is given in table 1: 


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TABLE 1.—Visitors to the Museum buildings during the year ended June 80, 1946 


Museum buildings 


Smithsoni ; 
Year and month Buildang anaes ang pelnral ieee Total 
Building | Building | Building 
1944 
JulyOlt) Lap voit be 34, 764 68, 516 55, 433 18, 352 177, 065 
AUPUSG TS ees ee 35, 956 74, 468 55, 153 17, 817 183, 394 
September__________ 33,842 | 62,939| 47,153| 18188] 162, 122 
Oetober/ 2 322 60 2k 33, 414 60, 665 48, 0238 16, 867 158, 969 
Noveniber..- 43 4.2 28, 227 56, 761 40, 440 14, 164 139, 592 
Mecember ses es wee 19, 374 39, 374 32, 807 10, 652 102, 207 
1946 
Jandary, Joke 19,095 | 38,031] 32,447] 10,717] 100,290 
Hebruary. sy to2 ye 2 21, 996 43, 877 37, 255 11, 973 115, 101 
Marehete tecucn oie! ee 27, 402 54, 230 44, 864 15, 967 142, 463 
Apriliie tee. £4 Y 32, 053 63, 804 46, 176 18, 306 160, 339 
ANE em 27, 317 55, 305 45, 980 13, 435 142, 037 
PUEDE se eh Ce ar fei 29, 322 56, 950 45,981 | 2 14, $84 147, 137 
Potala hf 342,762 | 674, 920 | 1 531,712 | 181, 322 | 1, 730, 716 


1 Not including 12,816 persons attending meetings after 4:30 p. m. 
2 Building closed June 4 and 5 and June 12 through June 15 during moving and assembling of Bell jet- 
propelled plane. 


LIBRARY 


The over-all picture of the growth of the Museum library and of 
its services during the year ended June 30, 1945, is not greatly dif- 
ferent from that of the year before. Both growth and use might be 
described as normal for a war year. Such changes as there were 
followed or anticipated more or less closely the progress of the war 
itself. Demands made on our reference and informational resources 
by the war agencies were not quite so heavy on the whole. There 
was, for example, a noticeable and natural decline in their use of our 
collections of scientific voyages and travels as sources of geographical 
information. 

Accessions from abroad were much the same in number and kind 
as in the preceding year, with almost no losses of material known to 
have been shipped. Toward the end of the year a few journals pub- 
lished during the years of enemy occupation had begun to come in 
directly from France and Belgium. 

Most of the library’s acquisitions, whether domestic or foreign, 
were made by purchase or exchange, but there were also, as always, 
a considerable number of gifts from members of the scientific staff 
and other friends of the Museum. Especially notable among these 
was a collection of more than 100 publications on photography pre- 
sented by George R. Goergens. Included in the collection are many 


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rare items issued in the 1880’s and 1890’s that are important addi- 
tions to the sectional library of the division of photography. 

The cataloging of currently received material was well kept up on 
the whole, with now and then some unavoidable time-lag between the 
receipt of the publications and the completion of their preparation for 
use. Another permanent subprofessional assistant is much needed to 
make secondary and shelf-list cards, to do preliminary filing, and to 
relieve the professional catalogers of other routine and time-consuming 
tasks. The services of a highly competent cataloger for two months 
during the summer of 1944 were a great help in the cataloging pro- 
gram, and even resulted in a small reduction of the library’s huge 
backlog of inadequately cataloged books and serial publications. To 
deal effectively with the backlog, however, it would be necessary to 
set up a carefully planned special project with a temporary staff of a 
sufficient number of well-qualified persons engaged to complete it 
within a specified time. The arrearage is too large and too complex 
ever to be completely and satisfactorily reduced by the regular staff, 
always busy with current work, or by the occasional temporary ap- 
pointment of an extra cataloger or two. 

A generous allotment of funds for binding again this year made it 
possible to prepare and send to the bindery 2,351 volumes, many of 
which have already been returned. In October a temporary position 
of bindery aide to do book mending was set up, and the results of the 
good work done in repairing and restoring 1,149 volumes are so obvious 
that there can be no question about the desirability of making the 
position permanent. 

The Museum library is a working reference library and not a museum 
of fine books, but a large number of the most useful books on its shelves 
are old books. Many of them are rare and irreplaceable, and some of 
them are in fine bindings. Usage, shelf age, and dust all contribute 
to their physical deterioration, and constant care is needed to keep 
them in good condition. 

The most serious unsolved problem in the physical care of the 
library continues to be shelf room adequate to house the existing col- 
lections and to provide for future growth. Even before the war the 
shelves in the Natural History Building were badly overcrowded, and 
only by moving several thousand volumes that could ill be spared to 
an inconvenient location in the attic stacks of the Arts and Industries 
Building could room be made to shelve the current accessions. Now 
the shelves in both buildings are filled, and in some sections the books 
are double shelved. Unless it is possible to obtain new shelving soon, 
and to find space in which to install it, the only relief to the situation 
would seem to be to box up and remove to dead storage some of the 
books in the less frequently consulted classes in order to make space 
for new accessions. 


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Besides the routine business of selecting, obtaining, classifying, and 
cataloging new publications, caring for existing collections, circulat- 
ing books and periodicals, and giving reference, bibliographical, and 
spot informational service to readers and correspondents, some spe- 
cial pieces of work are noteworthy. First among these was the com- 
pletion of Miss Mathilde M. Carpenter’s Bibliography of Biographies 
of Entomologists, which was published in the American Midland 
Naturalist, vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1-116, January 1945. This fine and 
useful piece of work, undertaken because of constant demands for 
information, sometimes very hard to find, about the lives and pub- 
lications of collectors and students of insects all over the world, had 
occupied all the time that could be spared from Miss Carpenter’s 
routine duties in the division of insects for several years. 

Another important special piece of work was the preparation of 
the record of the Museum’s serial holdings for inclusion in the forth- 
coming supplement to the Union List of Serials, one of the most 
useful of bibliographical tools for a scientific library. 

In the Arts and Industries library, the taking of an inventory was 
continued as time permitted, and catalog and shelf-list records for 
the contents of 42 shelves were revised. 

On April 3, a joint meeting of the Museum group with the Geog- 
raphy and Map group of the Special Libraries Association’s local 
chapter, at which Dr. Wetmore gave a talk on his travels in the ' 
Guajira Desert of Northeastern Colombia, offered an opportunity to 
place on exhibition a few of the library’s rare illustrated books on 
museums and natural history that had recently been brought back 
after their evacuation from Washington for safekeeping. The little 
exhibit received a good deal of favorable notice both on the evening 
of the meeting and from later visitors to it. 

A number of changes were made in the staff. Miss Elizabeth G. 
Moseley, who had been in charge of serial publications and binding, 
resigned on August 31, 1944, and her position was filled by the ap- 
pointment of Miss Mary L. Fleet on October 16. Miss Leona 
Haviland was appointed library assistant on September 18 and was 
assigned to duties in the cataloging division. From June 30 to 
August 31 the cataloging division had the services of Miss Beatrice 
KE. Smith under temporary appointment. By transfer from the divi- 
sion of insects to the library staff Miss Mathilde M. Carpenter was 
promoted on August 31 to the position of biological aide in charge cf 
the library of the division of insects. On October 9 Mrs. Carmen 
G. Randall was transferred from the temporary position of library 
assistant and promoted to the temporary position of senior bindery 
aide. 


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Statistics 
Accessions of cataloged volumes-_----_------------------ 2, 852 
Volumes, pamphlets, and maps cataloged or recataloged___ 3, 420 
Beriodicahparts entered? Jo. syow. yeli. .opacdslgiooisaes 6, 310 
Cards added to catalogs and shelf-lists_--__.____---------- 14, 289 
Volumes sent to the Public Printer for binding-__-___-_--- 2, 301 
Volumes repaired in the Museum________------_-------- 1, 149 
Nevwjexchanges;arranged - ps2 iio sesadss eds. bal uee lee 140 


Circulation of books and periodicals by the main library___ 8, 191 
Publications sent to sectional libraries for intradivisional 
erremation and. flim. ts. a Se eS Oe 3, 531 
The estimated number of cataloged volumes now in the Museum 
library is 233,545. Not included in this figure are incomplete volumes 
of periodicals, wholly uncataloged material, and the large collections 
of pamphlets on special subjects in the sectional libraries. 


PUBLICATIONS AND PRINTING 


The Museum was allotted a total of $43,000 for its publication 
requirements during the fiscal year 1944-45, the same sum as for the 
previous year. Of this, $24,000 was used for printing Bulletins and 
Proceedings, $15,000 for binding, and $4,000 for the salary of the 
Museum printer. Twenty publications were issued—1 Bulletin, 1 
Contribution from the National Herbarium, and 18 Proceedings 
papers. A list of these publications is given on page 111. Volumes 
bound totaled 2,351. 

The distribution of volumes and separates to libraries and indi- 
viduals on the regular mailing lists aggregated 33,264 copies, while 
in addition 7,001 copies of publications issued during this and previous 
years were supplied in response to special requests. The mailing lists 
have been carefully revised to avoid loss in distribution. 

The editor, Paul H. Oehser, continued to serve as chairman of the 
Efficiency Rating Committee of the Smithsonian Institution and 
devoted considerable time to the efficiency-rating program. 

Indexing.—Miss Gladys O. Visel, editorial clerk, and Mrs. Mar- 
guerite W. Poole, information clerk, have continued work as time per- 
mitted on the general index of Museum publications. Indexing of 
the publications issued prior to the year 1900 is nearing completion. 
Indexes for Proceedings volume 94 and for Bulletins 186, 187, and 188 
also were prepared in the editorial office during the year. 

Museum print shop.—F. W. Bright was detailed from the Govern- 
ment Printing Office, as in previous years, to print museum and 
herbarium labels and special forms at the Museum print shop, a 
branch of the Government Printing Office. Mr. Bright completed 132 
of the 155 requisitions submitted for printing; 5 that were submitted 
during the previous fiscal year were likewise finished, making a total 
of 137 for the year. Of the uncompleted requisitions, 8 represent 


12 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


large exhibition labels or specimen labels, involving much hand 
setting of type or long press runs. The remaining 15 requisitions 
were submitted too late in the year for completing before June 30. 
With the exception of these, the work of the print shop is nearly up 


to date. 
PHOTCGRAPHIC LABORATORY 


In continuation of the cooperative arrangement between the 
Smithsonian, the National Zoological Park, and the Bureau of Ameri- 
can Ethnology, the photographic laboratory has made 3,305 negatives, 
opaked 119, and retouched 26; processed 1,394 microfilm negatives (74 
of which were for the Army Medical Museum under an exchange plan), 
111 lantern slides, 10 transparencies, 87 kodachromes, 28 photomicro- 
graphs, 227 dry mounts, 31 cloth mounts, 12,130 prints, and 1,422 en- 
largements; and developed 15 rolls of film. Many of the requisitions 
for photographic services were in connection with information fur- 
nished the armed services. 


BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT 


Repairs and alterations.—Repairs of a routine nature engaged most 
of the time of the skilled labor force. In the Arts and Industries 
Building, however, two important pieces of work were undertaken: 
A security storage vault was constructed in the division of history for 
the protection of valuable coins and medals; work was begun on the 
construction of two rooms to house a seventeenth-century apothecary 
shop, an exhibit which will doubtless be very popular when installa- 
tion is completed. 

Heat, light, and power.—Electric current used during the year 
amounted to 1,544,139 kilowatt-hours. 

In line with the governmental program of coal conservation to help 
in the war effort, steam was cut off in all buildings an hour a day for 
two and a half months, and during that period a saving of 4,000,000 
pounds was effected. Because of unusually low temperatures during 
the winter, however, the over-all saving was only 1,908,081 pounds. 
The total steam consumption for the fiscal year was 57,121,888. 

Ice production.—The Museum ice plant produced 183 tons of ice 
at a cost of $2.70 a ton, exclusive of labor. Twice during the year the 
plant was closed for emergency repairs and during these periods ice 
in the amount of 4% tons was purchased at a cost of $5 a ton. 

Fire protection.—Of the $1,182.79 spent for fire protection, more 
than a thousand dollars was used for the purchase of new equipment. 
The principal items purchased were five wheel-type extinguishers, and 
hose for testing the standpipes on the exhibition floors. Inspections 
of apparatus were made each month, and soda and acid extinguishers 
were discharged and recharged. 


OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 13 


Air-raid alarms were removed and many of the gongs were replaced 
in the exhibition cases. The work of completing the reinstallation 
will be continued during the coming year. 

Two old fire plugs were removed from the Astrophysical Observa- 
tory yard and connections were made with the District of Columbia 
mains from the group of buildings located near the Smithsonian 
building. The two plugs that were removed were so old as to have 
become museum specimens, and they will be preserved by the division 
of engineering. 

Furniture and fixtures.—Furniture acquired during the year con- 
sisted of 23 exhibition cases and bases and 85 items of storage, office, 
laboratory, and other furniture. Condemned and disposed of were 
10 exhibition cases and bases and 39 pieces of storage cases, office, 
laboratory, and other furniture. On hand on June 30, 1945, were 
3,535 exhibition cases and 20,414 pieces of storage, office, laboratory, 
and other furniture; 118,539 drawers, boxes, and wing frames. 


MEETINGS AND SPECIAL EXHIBITS 


The Museum continued to make available the auditorium and 
lecture room of the Natural History building to educational, scientific, 
welfare, and governmental organizations and groups for meetings and 
lectures. During the past year 236 groups availed themselves of this 
opportunity. 

The foyer and adjacent space in the Natural History building, cus- 
tomarily used for special exhibits, were in constant use. The 12 
special exhibits were: 


July 3 to 14, 1944: Exhibit by the Boy Scouts of America illustrating work carried 
on by the Scouts during their meetings and field trips. 

July 15 to August 31, 1944: Cultural survey of Burma, Thailand, Malay States, 
Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Philippines, and Formosa. The exhibit was in 
the form of enlarged photographs of native people, houses, and cultural ob- 
jects of these areas. 

September 1 to 31, 1944: Exhibition of oil and water-color paintings under the 
auspices of the National Photograph Society. 

October 1 to 31, 1944: Exhibition by Mrs. Enit Kaufman of oils and water colors 
painted through the years by members of her family. 

November 1 to 30, 1944: Exhibition of oil and water-color paintings under the 
auspices of the D. C. Federation of Women’s Clubs. 

December 1 to 31, 1944: Exhibition of oil paintings of members of American 
Indian tribes by Tom J. Moore. 

January 1 to 31, 1945: Exhibition of water-color paintings by Carl Sahlin, under 
the auspices of the Pan American League of Miami, Fla. 

February 1 to 28, 1945: Exhibition of Cuban modernistic oil paintings under the 
auspices of the Pan American Union. 

March 1 to 31, 1945: Exhibition of oil and water-color paintings under the 
auspices of the Society of Washington Artists. 


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April 1 to 31, 1945: Pan Americanism in postage stamps—an exhibition of stamps 
arranged to represent the several South American republics, under the aus- 
pices of the Pan American Union. 

May 1 to 31, 1945: Exhibition of the handicrafts of Great Britain, comprising 
principally glassware, silverware, china, pottery, and weaving. 

June 1 to 30, 1945: Exhibition of photographs and kodachrome prints entered in 
competition by the members of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club. 


CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF 


Changes during the year in the organization and staff included 
the advancement of John E. Graf from associate director, United 
States National Museum, to the position of assistant secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution, on April 1, 1945. 

The department of anthropology lost through retirement Richard 
G. Paine, scientific aide in the division of anthropology, on February 
28, 1945, and to this vacancy Joseph R. Caldwell was appointed on 
April 9, 1945. Robert A. Elder, Jr., was appointed assistant curator 
in the division of ethnology on May 16, 1945. 

On the staff of the department of biology an honorary appointment 
was conferred on Maj. W. L. Jellison, A.S. F., U.S. A., as collaborator 
in the division of insects, on August 2, 1944. Other additions were 
the appointment of Dr. Raymond M. Gilmore, associate curator in 
the division of mammals on September 2, 1944; Mrs. Marie P. Fish, 
scientific aide in the division of fishes, on December 4, 1944; William 
EK. Hoffmann, associate curator in the division of insects, on August 
18, 1944; and Mrs. Mildred S. Wilson, assistant curator (aquatic 
biology), in the division of marine invertebrates, on August 21, 1944. 
Three employees left the service: James O. Maloney, aide in the divi- 
sion of marine invertebrates resigned effective April 15, 1945; John A. 
Mirguet, osteologist, retired October 31, 1944; and Earl D. Reid, 
scientific aide, division of fishes, retired February 28, 1945. 

Through the retirement of Nicholas W. Dorsey, accountant and 
auditor, on May 31, 1945, after long service to the Museum, Thomas 
F. Clark was advanced to this position on June 16, 1945. Mrs. 
Anna W. Murray was appointed assistant accountant and auditor 
on April 30, 1945, to fill the position made vacant by tbe transfer of 
Mrs. Florence L. Weirich to the Department of Agriculture on April 
8, 1945. 

Other changes on the administrative staff during the year were the 
resignations of Mrs. Margaret M. Pflieger, assistant purchasing 
officer on February 28, 1945, and Mrs. Margaret L. Vinton, personnel 
assistant, on January 4, 1945. These vacancies were filled by the 
promotion of Armstead D. Hilliard and Gertrude R. R. Bogdan, 
respectively, on March 1, 1945. 


OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 15 


On the staff of maintenance and operation, William Crossingham, 
mechanic (foreman of paint shop), retired September 30, 1944, and on 
October 9, 1944, Axel J. Anderson succeeded him in charge of the 
paint shop. 

The following, upon completion of military duty, returned during 
the year to their positions in the Museum: Reuben W. Gore, February 
14, 1945; Robert E. Kirk, May 16, 1945, and John B. J. Peck, January 
12,1945. On February 26, 1945, Oliver N. Armstead was furloughed 
for military duty. 

Through the operation of the retirement act, 11 employees were 
retired, as follows: For age: Mrs. Marie Arm, forewoman of char- 
women, on August 31, 1944, with 32 years 3 months service; Nicholas 
W. Dorsey, accountant and auditor, on May 31, 1945, with 50 years 
3 months service; Richard G. Paine, scientific aide, on February 28, 
1945, with 44 years 4 months service. ‘Through optional retirement: 
William Crossingham, mechanic (foreman of paint shop), on Septem- 
ber 30, 1944, with 47 years of service; Harry Kaiser, mechanic (painter) 
on June 30, 1945, with 35 years 10 months service; John A. Mirguet, 
osteologist, on October 31, 1944, with 35 years 4 months service; 
Earl D. Reid, scientific aide, on February 28, 1945, with 34 years 8 
months service; Clarence T. Taylor, guard, on June 30, 1945, with 
25 years 7 months service; and Mrs. Eleanor C. White, scientific 
aide, on November 30, 1944, with 25 years 8 months service. Through 
disability retirement: James W. Burns, guard, on May 31, 1945, with 
9 years 11 months service and Winfield S. Dean, mechanic, on Novem- 
ber 1, 1944, with 18 years 7 months service. 

Through death the Museum lost during the year Louis B. Hanks, 
guard, on June 21, 1945, and Carter C. Wood, laborer, on April 2, 
1945. 


DETAILED REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 


(Frank M. Sretrzuer, Head Curator) 


TuE limited staff extended every effort during the year in the prep- 
aration of special exhibitions relating to those areas of the South 
Pacific and the Asiatic mainland where members of our armed forces 
have been engaged in military and naval operations. They kept 
current all regular routine assignments and reduced as rapidly as 
possible the accumulation of large archeological collections recovered 
before the attack on Pearl Harbor. 

Our popular exhibition of emergency rescue equipment was revised, 
and new equipment was added as soon as war restrictions permitted. 
A symbol of gratitude in the form of a doll for the children of those 
men who drove out the Nazis from Normandy, which had been pre- 
sented to our Supreme Commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, was 
placed on special exhibition. A remarkably fine collection of early 
American silver assembled by the late Arthur Michael and bequeathed 
to the Smithsonian Institution was placed on public view at the close 
of the year. 

In connection with the Department of State’s program of cultural 
cooperation with the other American Republics, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, 
curator of physical anthropology, was detailed to teach osteometry to 
eraduate students at the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico 
City, from March 8 to June 23, 1945. In addition to this teaching 
he was enabled to make a study of the recovered skeletal material 
from Xochicalco now in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia, which 
was collected by Dr. Eduardo Noguera. 

A similar gesture of good will was accomplished upon the acceptance 
of an invitation from the Sociedad Colombista Panamericana by 
detailing Herbert W. Krieger, curator of ethnology, to spend the 
month of May attending conferences and conducting surveys in 
relation to the exact location and possible restoration of the settlement 
established by Columbus at Isabela, on the north coast of the Domin- 
can Republic. 

During the first part of June the head curator examined the famous 
archeological sites of Kolomoki, near Blakely; Ocmulgee, near Macon; 
and Etowah, near Cartersville, Ga. As a result of his reeommenda- 
tions a specific program of preservation has been inaugurated by the 
State of Georgia in regard to Kolomoki and Etowah. As a member 

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DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 17 


of the Advisory Board of the National Park Service he attended a 
historical conference at Morristown National Historical Park in New 
Jersey on June 7-8, 1945. 

Requests from the war agencies to examine and identify specimens 
from the Pacific area continue. Other Government agencies, espe- 
cially the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have used the facilities 
offered by the department. The division of physical anthropology 
was fortunate to obtain the voluntary services of Dr. Beatrice Bickel, 
former librarian at the Surgeon General’s Library, to catalog the books 
in the division’s library assembled by the late Dr. AleS Hrdlitka. 


ACCESSIONS 


During the year the department of anthropology received 57 
accessions totaling 6,642 specimens as compared to 852 specimens 
received during the previous year. This increase is largely due to the 
reduction of a backlog of accumulated specimens in the division of 
archeology which could not be processed during the years in which 
they were received because of lack of sufficient laboratory space and 
manpower. The 57 accessions were assigned within the department 
as follows: 2 loans of material for special exhibitions in the foyer of 
the Natural History Building assigned to the head curator’s office, 
consisting of an exhibition on modern British crafts and the addition 
to the emergency rescue equipment exhibition of an emergency 
sustenance vest, issued to Army fliers; archeology, 23; ethnology, 22; 
period art and textiles, 1; physical anthropology, 9. The most note- 
worthy specimens received under the above accessions are briefly 
described under the divisions to which they pertain. 

Archeology.—Two painted Neolithic jars, a gift from Gen. Ku 
Chung-lun, chairman of the Kansu Provincial Government, on the 
occasion of Vice President Henry A. Wallace’s visit to northwestern 
China in June 1944, were presented by Mr. Wallace; 5,677 specimens 
excavated from Indian village and burial sites in Scott and Lane 
Counties, Kans., were collected for the Museum in 1939 under the 
direct supervision of Associate Curator Waldo R. Wedel; 343 
archeological specimens from the Kansas collection of the late Dr. 
Norman L. Roberts were donated by Mrs. Roberts; 10 Nasca and 
Early Chimu vessels from Peru were presented by Mrs. Emerson 
Howe in memory of her daughter and son-in-law, Sr. and Sra. A. 
Gonzalez de Prada; an old Chamorro stone adz found in a shell hole 
during the initial fighting on Saipan, Marianas Islands, was presented 
by Capt. Allan W. Phelps, M. A. C. 

Ethnology.—Included in the year’s accessions were collections from 
the Northwest Pacific Coast and Alaska, Micronesia, Polynesia, the 
Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Burma, China, Jivaro Indians of 
Ecuador, and scyauall North American: Indian tribes. 


18 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


An important contribution to the Micronesian collection was the 
gift from Dr. V. W. T. McGusty of a large model outrigger canoe 
from Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. This canoe is the Gilbertese 
baurua, generally called war canoe, but a craft whose uses are far 
more varied than the name would imply. It is a model of the usual 
deep-water craft of the islanders, the vehicle of interisland traffic of 
all kinds. The hull is built of four slabs of timber, lashed end to end 
and edge to edge with sennit. It is equipped with a triangular mat 
sail, movable mast, spars, steering oar, and three paddles. When 
space is available it is the plan of the division to place this interesting 
specimen on permanent exhibition. 

An interesting addition to the collections is a royal Hawaiian cape 
(ahuula), which is fully feathered with tufts of black and pale yellow 
feathers of the oo bird and with red feathers of the 77wi mounted on a 
medium meshed net of olona fiber tailored to form a foundation in 
the shape of a flattened, irregularly margined semicircle. 

Two specimens from eastern New Guinea received through transfer 
from the National Zoological Park are particularly noteworthy. One, 
a wooden figurine, is a stylized carving of an ancestral figure, and the 
other, a boat bailer, is cut from solid wood, with handle inside the 
trough and a stylized bird carving projecting from the proximal end. 

An Arab costume presented to Gen. H. H. Arnold by Abdul Aziz 
I’bn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, was lent to the Museum by General 
Arnold. The costume consists of an embroidered headdress and coil, 
a robe embroidered in gold thread, and an inscribed sword. This 
costume was placed on temporary exhibition for several months. 

Other accessions of importance include a walrus tusk engraved by 
a Maritime Chukchee, donated by John G. Haviland, and a collection 
of woven decorative pouches from the Otomi Indians in the State of 
Hidalgo, Mexico, presented by Dr. W. F. Foshag. 

The section of period art and textiles received through deposit from 
the Smithsonian Institution the well-known Arthur Michael collec- 
tion of early American silver, which constitutes one of the most out- 
standing bequests received by the Institution during the past few 
years. Among the 121 silversmiths whose work is represented are 
some of the most outstanding craftsmen of the Colonial and Federal 
periods (1675-1850). The earliest American silversmith represented 
is John Coney, famous not only for the excellent quality of his silver- 
ware but also because he was the engraver of the plates used for the 
printing of the first paper currency in America. The collection in- 
cludes examples of silver candlesticks and a pitcher made by Paul 
Revere, Sr., who served as an apprentice to John Coney, as well as 
several artistic pieces by his son, the patriot Paul Revere. Such 
families as the Burts of Boston (John Burt and his sons Benjamin, 
Samuel, William), the Hurds (Jacob Hurd and his sons Benjamin and 


DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 19 


Nathaniel), and others are well represented. A great variety of 
patterns is shown by individual silversmiths even in the more com- 
monly duplicated objects, which include numerous tankards, porrin- 
gers with keyhole piercing, goblets, cans, teaspoons and tablespoons, 
teapots and coffee pots, cream pitchers, and sugar bowls. Other 
objects included in the exhibition are brandy saucepans, skewers, 
large 2-handled punch strainers, smaller single-handled tea or coffee 
strainers, scissors, sugar tongs, a silver fork (rare in Colonial collec- 
tions), muffineer or caster, candlesticks with baluster stem, candle 
snuffer and tray, patch or snuff boxes, knee buckles, wine taster, 
riding spurs, dress sword, alms basin, and chalices. Most of the silver 
in the collection was produced during the eighteenth century, which 
usually is divided into three periods. The objects made in the first 
period are essentially plain and unornamented, with practically no 
embossed or engraved decoration, but showing originality, skill, and 
fine feeling forform. In the second period, middle eighteenth century, 
shapes are generally made up of curves, with ornament consisting of 
a combination of shells, fantastic scrolls, leafwork, and escutcheons, 
but all tending toward lightness of effect. The third period was 
influenced by examples of classic art excavated about the middle of 
the eighteenth century at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The classic 
style is formal, delicate, and graceful and expresses itself chiefly in 
straight structural lines and by slender columns, pilasters, flutings, 
and moldings. 

This collection forms an exceedingly worth-while nucleus for the 
addition of future collections of this nature. An excellent oppor- 
tunity to study and become acquainted with Colonial silver has 
been afforded visitors to the National Museum by a temporary 
exhibition in the lobby of the Natural History Building. 

Physical anthropology.—Out of the 78 specimens received by this 
division the following are considered noteworthy: 

Twenty-two skeletons from Amchitka Island in the Aleutians came 
as a gift from Capt. Paul Guggenheim, Medical Corps, Army Air 
Forces, who in 1937 spent a season in this region as a member of the 
late Dr. AleS’ Hrdliéka’s field party. This collection, recovered 
during the Army’s recent occupation of the island, supplements the 
material obtained by Dr. Hrdliéka in 1938. 

A collection of 35 embryological specimens was donated by Dr. 
Samuel Rabkin. For many years Dr. Rabkin has been assembling 
embryos and fetuses, which he has cleared by the Schultze technique 
in order to demonstrate the stage of skeletal development. This 
interesting and unique collection provides the division with an un- 
usually complete series for research in the early stages of human 
development. 


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Three specimens from various localities recovered under conditions 
suggesting considerable antiquity were received: One from a gravel 
pit near Campbell, Minn., sent as a gift by Orville R. Edner, through 
Robert Teeters; another from Clear Fork, 60 miles northeast of 
Abilene, Tex., by Dr. Cyrus N. Ray; and the well-known skull of 
Homo novusmundus, found near Folsom, N. Mex., in 1935 and de- 
scribed and donated by the late J. D. Figgins. 


INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS 


Several special exhibitions were prepared and installed in the foyer 
and lobby of the Natural History Building for a temporary period. 
These were assembled under the supervision of the head curator 
assisted by the staff in the division of ethnology and installed through 
cooperation of the superintendent of buildings. 

From July 15 to August 31, 1944, the entire foyer was used for an 
exhibition entitled ‘“‘Cultural Survey,” illustrating decorative arts and 
handicrafts made by the native peoples of Burma, Thailand, Malay 
States, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Philippine Islands, and Formosa. 
This exhibition was well received by the many service men and women 
visitors who for the first time had an opportunity to examine objects 
from some of the ancient sophisticated conservative cultures as well 
as those from more primitive inhabitants in this South Pacifie and 
Asiatic area. 

In December 1944 three new temporary exhibitions were installed 
and the air-sea rescue exhibition was completely renovated by the 
substitution of new equipment loaned to the department by the Air 
Sea Rescue Agency of the United States Coast Guard. During this 
same period an exhibition of ‘Rocky Mountain Indian Paintings’ 
by Tom James Moore was placed on view. These paintings were 
portraits of Indians belonging to the Blackfoot, Flathead, Kutenai, 
and Shoshoni tribes. 

Mentioned elsewhere in this report (division of history) is the 
beautifully costumed doll that was sent to the Museum by Gen. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower, to whom it had been presented by the children 
of Normandy in gratitude for their liberation from the Nazis. This 
fine example of Breton doll-making was prominently featured and 
placed on public display by the division of ethnology among some of 
the general exhibits in the Natural History Building. 

Received as a loan from Gen. H. H. Arnold was a Bedouin costume 
similar to those worn by members of the royal family in Saudi Arabia, 
presented to General Arnold by Abdul Aziz I’bn Saud, King of Saudi 
Arabia. It consists of a full-length homespun robe embroidered with 
gold thread, a colorful headdress and gold-wrapped coil worn only by 
royalty, and an inscribed sword. The costume was draped over a 


DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY yay" 


manikin representing a typical individual from Saudi Arabia and 
placed on exhibition. 

In May 1945 the head curator assisted Miss Muriel Rose in the ar- 
rangement and installation of a large exhibition of modern British 
crafts. ‘This consisted of several furnished room interiors and a mis- 
cellaneous group of handicrafts such as furniture, ceramics, linens, 
glass, and silver. 

By June 1945 the staff in the division of ethnology had completed 
the classification and cataloging of the large Arthur Michael collection 
of early American silver. The pieces were then arranged according 
to silversmiths in two large exhibition cases for special display. The 
quality and beauty of these specimens made by the master craftsmen 
of their period have aroused considerable interest during the short 
period that they have been on public view. 

Archeology.—During the fiscal year four entirely new exhibits were 
installed and nine others revised. Nine boxes of specimens evacuated 
for the war period were restored either to exhibition or to the study 
collections. 

Sorting and marking of the Museum-Gates collections of 1905, 
begun during the previous year, were completed during the third 
quarter. Following their return from evacuation, rare copper plaques 
exhumed in 1885 at the Etowah Mound in Georgia, and from other 
sites, were partially cleaned and otherwise prepared for temporary 
protection between glass. To imsure their permanent preservation 
these priceless examples of aboriginal American art should be mounted 
finally in some variety of transparent plastic. Prehistoric Peruvian 
textiles and associated materials were unwrapped, identified in most 
instances, and marked with their respective catalog numbers. 

Associate Curator Wedel unpacked and analyzed his 1939 and 1940 
Kansas collections, and prepared the customary descriptive lists for 
accessioning. The collections representing the 12 Hrdlitka expedi- 
tions to Alaska and the Aleutian Islands were again separated from 
one another; the collection for 1936 was cataloged and a beginning 
made on that for 1937. Preparation of these two large accessions, 
from Kansas and from the Aleutians, respectively, reduces the 
arrearage noted in the last Annual Report by 6,645 specimens. 

Ethnology A minimum personnel, consisting of a curator, a newly 
appointed assistant curator, and a clerk-stenographer, performed the 
varied duties necessary for the care of the normal collections of the 
division and the three sections under the jurisdiction of the division. 
Continued close cooperation and wide adaptability within the staff 
served to fulfill the numerous requirements for service; nevertheless 
additional personnel is needed to maintain the collections and to 
give the service requested through correspondence and by daily 
visitors. All current accessions have been properly cared for and 


22 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


entered in the permanent records of the division. Specimens have 
been placed either on exhibition or in the study series. In the clean- 
ing, restoration, and preservation of specimens the laboratory of the 
department of anthropology continued to contribute valuable assist- 
ance in making the collections more usable. Considerable time and 
effort were given by the entire staff in the preparation and installa- 
tion of special exhibitions as described in the general statement per- 
taining to such activities for the whole department. 

Physical anthropology—No important changes were made in the 
permanent exhibitions during the year. Two exhibition cases were 
retained in the division offices as a result of last year’s reorganization. 
This year the interiors of both of these cases were painted, and one 
of them was selected to demonstrate the development of the skeleton. 
On one side skeletons were laid out to show the changes in size and 
epiphyseal development from birth onward. On the other side a 
series of innominate bones was arranged to show changes in the 
pubic symphysis between the ages of 20 to 70 years. In the upright 
central portion a fluorescent panel was installed to form a lighted 
background for the embryological specimens donated by Dr. Samuel 
Rabkin. These working exhibits are frequently referred to in the 
course of determining the ages of miscellaneous human skeletons. 
Further progress was made in the improvement of the storage arrange- 
ments. The drawers in rooms 343-349 and those on the south side 
of the corridor outside the division were painted a light gray, which 
has lightened both the rooms and the corridor. Following this, 
numbers were stenciled on the drawers as the initial step in the in- 
stallation of a numerical finding system. With the removal of the 
threat of air bombardment, the material that was evacuated from the 
division in 1942 was returned and stored temporarily on the fourth 
floor. In the course of the year most of the boxes were unpacked and 
the specimens returned to their proper places in the study collections. 

The return to the Museum of evacuated specimens created a prob- 
lem as to the disposition of the large zoological brain collection. 
Since no provision had been made in the reorganization of the division 
offices for the housing of this collection on the third floor, it was 
decided to divide it—to allot the brains of mammals, birds, and reptiles 
to their respective divisions in the department of biology and retain 
only the human brains within the division. The number of human 
brains is small compared with the entire collection, and it was found 
that they could be adequately accommodated in room 374. Except 
for the possible fire hazard resulting from the presence of alcoholic 
specimens on the third floor, this arrangement in a room with a cement 
floor and running water is entirely satisfactory and makes it possible 
to service the collection with a minimum of labor. 


DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 23 


At the close of the year the large and important collection of Indian 
skeletal material donated by Dr. P. F. Titterington had been un- 
packed, sorted, and repaired. This collection, not yet accessioned, 
consists of approximately 400 skeletons from Calhoun and Jersey 
Counties, Ill. This task was accomplished largely by the energy 
and resourcefulness of the scientific helper during the three and a 
half months’ absence of the curator. 

Anthropological laboratory — During the year the chief preparator, 
Andreas J. Andrews, completed a piece mold and cast of the portrait 
bust of Dr. Ales Hrdlitéka that was modeled in the laboratory. A 
base was made with raised inscription to complete the plaster bust, and 
the entire figure was then bronzed. It has now been placed on 
exhibition near the Hrdli¢ka memorial in the division of physical 
anthropology offices. A manikin was constructed and outfitted with 
the Bedouin costume presented to Gen. H. H. Arnold by Abdul 
Aziz I’bn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia. Piece molds and 21 casts of 
classical heads were made for the Newton D. Baker General Hospital, 
Martinsburg, W. Va. From February 8 through March 15, 1945, 
the chief preparator was assigned to the David Taylor Model Basin 
to assist in the building of a diorama for the Bureau of Ships, Navy 
Department. Miss Bertha P. Dutton, curator of ethnology, Museum 
of New Mexico, was assisted in making molds of the prehistoric man 
series of sculptures for her museum. An improved signal mirror 
was mounted in the emergency rescue equipment exhibition. 

For the division of archeology Mr. Andrews made two copies in 
natural color of the Tuxtla statuette and a duplicate in natural color 
of a pipe in the form of a deity. An embossed copper design of a 
dancing human figure was mounted between glass; a petrified mas- 
todon tooth, some fragments of basketry, and specimens of corn-on-cob 
were treated with a preservative; an Indian dugout boat was cleaned; 
two gourds and a petrified rib were repaired; a carved wooden dagger 
with a figure on the handle was cleaned and restored; and numerous 
pieces of Indian pottery were repaired and restored. 

For the division of ethnology the laboratory polished 144 pieces 
of early American silver and a Chinese silver bowl. The design on 
a Northwest coast canoe was restored; seventeen 3-inch labels for 
the cultural survey exhibition were made and installed; the figure of 
a woman in the family group of Philippines was repaired; the armor 
worn by the first Governor of Alaska (a Russian) was treated with 
a preservative; and numerous minor repairs and restorations on 
specimens were completed. 

Two replicas in natural color and an endocranial cast of the Vero 
skull were made for the division of physical anthropology; a cast of 
the Melbourne skull was painted; endocranial casts of 31 human and 
9 orang skulls were made and painted. 


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For other departments within the Smithsonian the following assign- 
ments were completed: The manikin for the exhibition of the dress 
of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was repaired and repainted, and a piece mold 
and 20 casts of a woman’s torso were made and painted for the division 
of history. A modillion from which 14 casts are to be made was 
modeled for the division of medicine and public health. Four copies 
in natural color of an arrowhead from San Jon, N. Mex., were made 
for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Duplicates in natural color 
of two type specimens were made for the division of invertebrate 
paleontology. The statue ‘‘The Fallen Gladiator’ was repaired and 
painted for the National Collection of Fine Arts. Three pieces of 
pottery were repaired for the modern British crafts exhibition. 


INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 


Even though the demand by the various war agencies for identifi- 
cation of specimens from distant primitive groups has somewhat 
decreased, the number of visitors submitting objects as well as of 
specimens received through the mail has increased. ‘This department, 
because of the variety of disciplines under its jurisdiction, found it 
necessary to devote considerable time to the wide gamut of inquiries 
submitted to the Museum and Smithsonian Institution. Along with 
this time-consuming service to the public, several manuscripts were 
in preparation throughout the year. Then, too, the curators of 
physical anthropology and ethnology were detailed for teaching and 
research in Mexico and the West Indies for a period of several months. 
Such absences, owing to the understaffed condition in both of these 
divisions, placed additional burdens and responsibilities on the remain- 
ing staff members. Nevertheless, considerable investigation and 
research were concluded during the year, as indicated by the ee 
reports that follow. 

During the early part of May the head curator spent 10 days in 
Georgia reexamining the large archeological site of Kolomoki, near 
Blakely, in the southwestern part of the State. Every effort is bemg 
made to preserve this unusual prehistoric site, consisting of one of the 
three largest aboriginal mounds within the State. The head curator 
also visited Ocmulgee National Monument at Macon and the famous 
Etowah mound group near Cartersville. In June Mr. Setzler partici- 
pated in a conference at Morristown, N. J., to outline the contribution 
that controlled archeological field work can make in a study of our 
early American settlements such as Jamestown, Va., St. Augustine, 
Fla., and Plymouth, Mass. 

Throughout the fiscal year 75 lots of specimens were received by 
the department for identification and report. This represents an 
increase of 32 such lots over the previous year. All these were sub- 
sequently returned to the owners. Out of a total of 831 official letters 


DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 25 


submitted to the various divisions within the department, 70 percent, 
or 583, were prepared for official reply, representing many man-hours 
spent in research and investigation. These statistics do not include 
the numerous identifications supplied to visitors and colleagues 
coming directly to the offices of the various curators or the correspond- 
ence resulting from such visits. 

Archeology.—At times during the year the curator found opportunity 
to resume his long-delayed report on collections obtained at Pueblo 
Bonito, N. Mex. Associate Curator W. R. Wedel completed his 
analysis of the archeological collections he excavated in Kansas 
during 1939 and 1940, and at the close of the year he had under way 
a monograph on his field work in that State from 1937 through 1940. 
As heretofore, he has made direct reply to various individuals and 
institutions primarily concerned with the archeology of the Great 
Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. 

Twenty-eight lots of material were received for examination and 
report and subsequently returned to the senders. During the previous 
fiscal year 13 such lots were reported upon. 

Ethnology.—The classifying and cataloging of ethnological and 
auxiliary collections were diligently pursued throughout the year. 
Supplying information for individuals and organizations continued 
to assume major proportions. Though the compilation of data was 
still requested by the war agencies and armed forces, this aspect of the 
work materially decreased during the year. 

Assistance by the division in the research work of outside investiga- 
tors consisted primarily in making available for examination specimens 
from the collections. The files of photographs, paintings, manuscripts, 
and other documentary data and the indexed references to filed 
classified data were in almost constant use. The demand by individual 
correspondents and visitors for photographs is steadily increasing. 
This involves the assembling of appropriate specimens to be photo- 
graphed and the identification and captioning of prints. 

Government departments and agencies continued to use the 
division’s files and collections. The study and identification of 
ceramics, silver, glass, and lace continue to be of primary interest 
to the public, and compiling information for distribution to interested 
persons requires much time on the part of staff members. 

-- Forty-two written reports were made pertaining to the examination 
and identification of individual specimens and collections, totaling 
106 specimens. These reports covered ethnological specimens, silver 
objects, ceramics, laces, rugs, cutlery, jewelry, and musical instru- 
ments. The number of visitors to the office of the division seeking 
information or an informal report on specimens brought in person for 
examination and identification greatly exceeded the number of 


26 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


enumerated written reports. Several bibliographies were prepared 
and forwarded to correspondents. 

Dr. José T. Barén, Minister Counselor of the embassy of Cuba, 
following instructions from the Minister of State of his government, 
on April 25 transmitted to the curator of the division, H. W. Krieger, 
an invitation of the Sociedad Colombista Panamericana to partici- 
pate in work on the investigation and restoration of the settlement 
established by Christopher Columbus at Isabela, in the Dominican 
Republic. The investigation of this site was recommended by the 
Inter-American Scientific Association in accordance with Resolution 
XX of the Second Inter-American Caribbean Meeting. As a result 
of this official request Mr. Krieger was detailed to participate, and 
he spent the month of May in conferences in Habana, Cuba, and the 
Dominican Republic and on field surveys of this historical site, 
important to Spanish-American colonial history. 

Physical anthropology —The curator, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, under- 
took two main research projects during the year. The first of these 
involved the reconstruction of the Melbourne skull from Florida, 
which, on the basis of paleontological evidence, is believed to be of 
considerable antiquity. Because this is one of the few human skulls 
recovered from an early period, a correct restoration is important. 
When the work of restoration was well advanced it became necessary 
to secure for comparative purposes the so-called Vero skull, also from 
Florida, which is believed to be of comparable age. This was obtained 
on loan from the Geological Survey of Florida. The reconstruction 
and description of these specimens may result in some changes in the 
Opinions earlier expressed regarding their antiquity. A second proj- 
ect concerned the repair and examination of the skeletal material 
that the curator excavated in 1941-42 from an Indian ossuary on 
Potomac Creek, in Virginia, this being the first ossuary in this region 
to be carefully excavated by a physical anthropologist. The curator’s 
aim was to show how much information could be obtained from these 
ossuaries. 

As mentioned in the introduction, the curator worked in the Museo 
Nacional de Antropologia during his sojourn in Mexico. He also 
visited museums in the cities of Morelia, Patzcuaro, and Puebla. 
Mexico is developing a system of regional museums, some of which are 
historical in character, whereas others are devoted largely to anthro- 
pological subjects. 

Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation submitted skeletal 
material for identification oftener this year than heretofore. They 
were very appreciative of the information and identifications that 
resulted from these examinations, which feprasant a service we are 
well equipped to render. 


DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 27 


Among those who used the division library during the year may be 
mentioned Miss Katherine Simmons, United States Department of 
Agriculture, and M. Lonie, United States Bureau of Standards, both 
of whom were assembling measurements for the standardization of 


clothing. 
DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS 


For the use of other museums, schools, and research organizations, 
both in this and other countries, 232 items were distributed. These 
included 72 specimens sent out as gifts from the division of archeology 
to the Instituto de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City, the Pettis 
County Historical Society, Sedalia, Mo., the Ocmulgee National 
Monument, Macon, Ga., the Florida State Geological Survey at 
Tallahassee, and the Florida State Museum at Gainesville. The 
division of ethnology made three gifts and transfers, with a total of 
160 specimens, to various oganizations and governmental agencies. 
Several uncataloged and miscellaneous specimens were distributed by 
the division of physical anthropology. 


NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER DEPARTMENT 


At the close of the fiscal year the department of anthropology had a 
total of 719,333 cataloged specimens, representing a net increase of 
7,416. The followmg summary indicates the distribution of speci- 
mens as assigned to the various divisions and sections within the 
department: 


ATeneelony LOA S820 Aer a ar bere Vee SNe alt 486, 887 
i tinmelopiye tre oc. See eye coy peel oe Doe 182, 810 
PPEAMIICS er RPh iyo! kath te pial egileulenei A NEN x, 7, 585 
Dustcalsimstruiments 32.8062) de a ge 2, 414 
Penlod.art and textiles... 2.2222 c 0. ee ets oe a 2, 429 
Prysreal antiropology. ee 4 ess vi OEE tO 37, 208 


DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY 


(Waxpo L. Scumitt, Head Curator) 


THE routine care of collections and requests for information and 
the identification of specimens occupied the greater part of the time 
of the limited staff of the several divisions in biology. Only in the 
division of fishes, where some extra help was available, was any ap- 
preciable attack made on the department’s ever-growing backlog of 
unprocessed study material. There was time for little more than 
only the most necessary research—that required for the proper clas- 
sification of the Museum’s collections or needed to further the work 
of the sanitary, medical, and research units of the armed services. 

Field work was restricted because of the war. Under the auspices 
of the Division’ of Cultural Cooperation of the State Department, 
Dr. E. A. Chapin, curator of insects, visited Chile from February to 
April. 

Except for the continuance of the ornithological reconnaissance of 
Colombia by M. A. Carriker, Jr., financed by the W. L. Abbott fund, 
only more or less local collections were undertaken. ‘The curator and 
associate curator of fishes collected fossils at Scientists Cliffs, on 
Chesapeake Bay, and fishes from various creeks in the State of Mary- 
land. Several of the insect specialists made extensive, largely local, 
collections within their own groups, about 3,000 specimens being 
added through these efforts, a number being forms new to the collec- 
tions, especially in the case of coleopterous larvae and the Aleyrodidae. 
Most of the aleyrodid material was obtained by Miss Louise M. 
Russell from preserved plant material at the National Herbarium and 
in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Gardens. 

The curator and assistant curator of mollusks devoted some time 
to field trips undertaken for the purpose of acquainting members of 
the staffs of the National Naval Medical Center, Naval Medical 
School, and the National Institute of Health with the habitat of certain 
fresh-water mollusks that might serve as intermediate hosts of 
schistosomes and other trematode worms. The associate curator in 
charge of the diatom collection devoted two months last summer to 
field work at and in the vicinity of the Chesapeake Biological Labora- 
tory investigating the subject of oyster food and fattening and re- 
lated problems of diatom ecology sponsored by the Maryland Board of 
Natural Resources. 

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DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY 29 


ACCESSIONS 


Accessions for the year aggregated 1,135, an increase of nearly 
50 percent over last year. There was, on the other hand, a slight re- 
cession in the number of specimens received, 197,462 as compared 
with 229,546 for 1944. Of particular importance in connection with 
the prosecution of the war and the maintenance of public health are 
the specimens of mammals, mollusks, and insects involved in the trans- 
mission of disease received for identification from the services con- 
cerned with sanitation and epidemiology in the armed forces as well 
as those received from the United States of America Typhus Com- 
mission and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. 

Mammals.—The total of the year’s mammalian accessions received 
through the National Naval Medical School, 18 accessions in all, com- 
prises 455 rodents, 54 bats, 29 cuscus and 23 other marsupials, 3 pigs, 
and 1 dingo from the Indo-Pacific, including species heretofore un- 
represented in the collections from Australia and the Philippines, and 
1 bat from Natal, Brazil; through the Army Medical Museum 18 
accessions, covering 92 rats and other rodents, 24 bats, 3 bandicoots, 
and 1 shrew; from the United States of America Typhus Commission 
6 accessions of 63 mammals; and from the Pan American Sanitary 
Bureau, 2 accessions of 23 rats and guinea-pigs; from Drs. A. Wetmore 
and J. P. E. Morrison 76 mammals collected for the Museum in the 
Republic of Panama. 

Birds.—The largest of the year’s 87 accessions comprised 584 skins, 
1 alcoholic specimen, and 2 skeletons from Panama collected for the 
Museum by Drs. A. Wetmore and J. P. E. Morrison. Other large 
collections from areas from which we possessed little or no material 
include 354 skins and 1 skeleton from Ceylon taken by S. Dillon 
Ripley, and 143 bird skins and 7 skeletons by H. G. Deignan from the 
same island. The first and only material in the Museum from the 
Admiralty Islands, 95 bird skins, were donated by the collector, Lt. 
Logan J. Bennett, who also obtained 45 other skins from Nissan 
Island, Solomons, from which the Museum likewise had not pre- 
viously had material. Included in a gift of eight specimens of Vene- 
zulean birds from William H. Phelps were seven species and a genus, 
Cercibis, new to the collections. The type of a new blackbird sub- 
species, Agelaius xanthomus monensis, from Puerto Rico was received 
from its describer, Sefior Ventura Barnés, Jr. Sixty-two skins from 
extreme eastern Brazil, including several forms new to the collection, 
were received as a gift from Donald W. Lamm. Eight specimens, all 
new to the collection, were received from the Museum of Vertebrate 
Zoology, of the University of California, as a permanent deposit. 

Reptiles and amphibians.—In the Pearl Islands, Panama, Drs. 
A. Wetmore and J. P. E. Morrison collected 347 specimens for the 

679046—46——3 


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Museum. By exchange 142 specimens, representing 81 forms new to 
the collections and including paratypes and cotypes of 22 species, 
were obtained from the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Anthony 
Curtiss continued his generous donations of Haitian material, amount- 
ing to 212 specimens this year. Other notable gifts included 324 speci- 
mens from New Guinea collected by William H. Stickel; 100 specimens 
from Sierra Leone, Trinidad, Virgin Islands, and other localities col- 
lected by Lt. Murray L. Johnson; 97 specimens from Ceylon by 
H. G. Deignan. Four accessions, representing 693 specimens from 
the Indo-Pacific area, were received as transfers from the National 
Naval Medical School. 

Fishes —Noteworthy among the accessions of ichthyological 
material was a bramble shark, washed ashore on the California coast, 
received from the California State Fisheries Laboratory, as far as 
known the only specimen extant in any North American museum. 
Exchanges brought many other valuable specimens to the collection, 
including 12 paratypes of Venezuelan fishes from the Natural History 
Museum, Stanford University, 24 paratypes and cotypes, mostly 
South American, from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 4 para- 
types and 30 other specimens from the California Academy of Sciences, 
and 1 paratype of Hmmelichthyops atlanticus, from the Bingham 
Oceanographic Laboratory of Yale University. Fifty-eight Cuban 
fishes, including 43 paratypes, were received as a gift from Luis René 
Rivas. The largest single collection of the year comprised 1,180 
specimens collected for the Museum chiefly in the Pearl Islands, 
Panama, by Drs. A. Wetmore and J. P. E. Morrison. 

Insects —Most important among the year’s 257 accessions is the 
large quantity of mosquito material from various units of the Army 
and Navy, which has added a considerable number of species to our 
already excellent collection in this group. Other valuable mosquito 
material was received from the Rockefeller Foundation. The out- 
standing accession for the year, aside from the mosquitoes, is the 
Dayton Stoner collection of the Scutelleroidea, a highly specialized 
collection contained in about 70 schmitt boxes, accompanied by a 
considerable series of Coleoptera and other insects. Other accessions 
of importance include the gift of 201 Coccinellidae and Cleridae re- 
ceived from Ramén Gutiérrez A.; 122 Coccinellidae and Cleridae from 
P. Guillermo Kuschel; about 3,000 specimens of all orders, from the 
Pearl Islands, collected for the Museum by Drs. A. Wetmore and 
J. P. E. Morrison; about 1,500 specimens collected by the curator 
during his recent trip to Chile; and 311 sphecoid wasps, including 
29 types, donated by Dr. H. T. Fernald. As in former years, the larg- 
est single accession, 72,000 insects, was received by transfer from the 
Department of Agriculture. 


DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY ol 


Marine invertebrates —Six of the year’s accessions brought type 
material to the collections. From Dr. W. Templeman were received 
the type and cotype of a new genus and species of parasitic copepod 
found on a lobster; from Dr. Rendell Rhoades, cotypes of a new spe- 
cies of crayfish; from Drs. Wilbur M. Tidd and Ralph V. Bangham, 
holotype of one new species of parasitic copepod and holotype and 
paratypes of another; from Dr. Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., types and 
paratypes of two new species of crayfish; from Dr. E. G. Reinhard, 
cotypes of a parasitic isopod; from the Miller School of Biology, Uni- 
versity of Virginia, type of a new species of turbellarian worm; from 
Drs. A. Wetmore and J. P. E. Morrison a large collection of marine 
invertebrates from the Pearl Islands, Panama. 

Mollusks—Types of 11 species of mollusks in five accessions were pre- 
sented to the Museum during the year, namely, 4 by John Q. Burch, 
3 by A. R. V. Arellano, together with 24 other land shells, 3 paratypes 
of one species by the late George Willett, 1 by James Zetek, 
together with 200 specimens of shipworms, and 2 by Miss Marie E. 
Bourgeois, included in a shipment of 228 Mexican mollusks. From 
Miss Bourgeois the Museum received two other accessions comprising 
66 specimens of land, fresh-water, and marine shells; Dr. Zetek in 
another accession donated 385 land shells from Panama. The year’s 
largest accession, 25,000 mollusks, was collected for the Museum by 
Drs. A. Wetmore and J. P. E. Morrison in the Pear! Islands, Panama. 
In eight accessions from the National Naval Medical School, 631 shells 
were received from the Pacific area. In addition, 2,894 shells were 
received from various Pacific localities in 17 accessions from 13 mem- 
bers of the armed services. 

Helminths.—With the exception of two accessions comprising 99 
helminths from the Pearl Islands, Panama, collected for the Museum 
by Drs. A. Wetmore and J. P. E. Morrison, and 13 specimens collected 
by Capt. M. C. Meyer in New Guinea, the other nine accessions for 
the year contained paratype and cotype material of 10 new forms. 

Corals.—Five accessions, totaling 34 specimens, were received from 
five members of the armed forces serving in the Pacific area. 

Echinoderms.—Three of 27 accessions contained specimens of more 
than passing interest. Among the echinoderms from the Pearl Islands 
collected by Drs. A. Wetmore and J. P. E. Morrison were found two 
undescribed species. A specimen of starfish, Linckia rosenbergi, not 
seen since originally described in 1866, was donated by Ensign R. E. 
Lando, who collected it in the South Pacific; and 85 specimens from 
Biak Island, the first echinoderms ever received from that part of the 
world, were collected and donated by Corporals Frederick M. Bayer 
and Gilbert Neurohr. 


32 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


Plants.—There were many important accessions among the 283 
recorded for the year in the division of plants. Perhaps the most im- 
portant was the set of 8,000 photographs of types in European herb- 
aria obtained by purchase from the Chicago Natural History Museum, 
exceptionally valuable material since the great majority are of speci- 
mens in the Berlin Herbarium. Other very important accessions in- 
cluded 2,400 specimens of plants from Colombia, collected in the spring 
of 1944 by E. P. Killip, associate curator; 1,403 specimens, transferred 
from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, of which 1,360 are speci- 
mens collected in northern Brazil by J. T. Baldwin; 1,320 specimens 
collected in Colombia by the donor, Oscar L. Haught; 111 specimens 
and 299 photographs largely of type material of Crepis and related 
genera, presented by Prof. E. B. Babcock; 625 plants, mostly trees, 
collected in Ecuador by Elbert L. Little, Jr., and received as a transfer 
from the U.S. Forest Service; 454 specimens from Venezuela, received 
from Dr. H. Pittier; 576 specimens from Mexico, presented by Prof. 
P. Lyonnet; 495 specimens from Texas, received from the Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine; 250 specimens from Cuba, do- 
nated by Brother Léon; 297 specimens from Martinique and Guade- 
loupe, presented by Dr. H. Stehlé; 172 specimens of ferns, mostly 
from the Pacific Islands, presented by Lt. (jg) W. H. Wagner, Jr.; 
and 291 specimens of grasses from various regions, presented by Mrs. 
Agnes Chase, custodian of grasses. 

In continuation of exchanges, the National Herbarium also received 
830 specimens from the Comisién de Botdnica, Cali, Colombia; 497 
specimens from the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogoté, Colom- 
bia; 1,607 specimens of plants from various sources from the Uni- 
versity of Michigan; 800 specimens, mainly from Mexico and the 
western United States, from the California Academy of Sciences; 
44 specimens of plants from Colombia, including many isotypes, from 
the Escuela Superior de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Colombia; 595 
specimens from several sources, from the Arnold Arboretum; 638 
specimens, mostly from the western United States, from the New 
York Botanical Garden; 525 specimens of grasses from the western. 
United States, received from Dr. Frank W. Gould, in continuation of 
exchanges; 339 specimens, mostly from California and Oregon, from 
the University of California; 200 specimens, mostly from Canada, 
from the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University ; 286 specimens, mostly 
from Texas, from the University of Texas; and 193 specimens of 
Indiana grasses from Butler University. 

Diatoms.— Interesting diatom material was received from two remote 
places: 10 samples from various deposits at Oamaru, New Zealand, 
donated by Fred Reed, of Christchurch, and 2 samples of planktonic 
species from the vicinity of Attu Island, Alaska, collected by Dr. A. 
Bajkov. 


DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY 33 


INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS 


Two years ago the removal of the types from all biological collec- 
tions in the Museum to safer storage elsewhere as a defense measure 
was reported as virtually complete. All these types have now been 
safely returned to the building, and their restoration to their respec- 
tive study series in the several divisions in turn is virtually completed. 

Exhibition series —A most striking improvement in the North 
American mammal hall was accomplished this year. Following the 
shifting of certain large cases and the removal of duplicated exhibits, 
the taxidermist force, under the direction of W. L. Brown, chief 
taxidermist, completed the overhaul and refurbishing of the hair-seal 
exhibit. With the addition of a 35-foot-long background of rock work 
and other suitable accessories and the cleaning, repairing, and restor- 
ing of the original color in the 11 specimens, this exhibit has become 
much more attractive and correspondingly more instructive. New 
exhibits enhancing the several bird ranges in which they have been 
placed are those illustrating courtship in birds, unusual bird nests, 
the extinct New World birds, and the infinite variety of the colors of 
hummingbirds. These several exhibits are in the modern style and 
are all fluorescent-lighted. Nine individual animals and two small 
eroups, green frog and scaled salamander, were added to the exhibi- 
tion series. The District of Colombia mammals on exhibition and the 
cases in which they are contained were all cleaned, and nine birds were 
added to the District avifauna display. 

Mammals.—Inability to obtain requisitioned storage cases seriously 
taxed the existing storage facilities in the division. The storage of 
incoming large and small skulls presents a more difficult situation each 
year. Many of the present cases are crowded to capacity. Only 
limited space is left in the division for the intercalation of new cases. 
Shelf space in the alcoholic storage has been at a premium for some 
time. Some relief came with the construction of temporary wooden 
shelves for the reception of the large collection of mammalian brains 
assembled by the late Dr. AleS Hrdli¢tka. Additional stacks of steel 
shelving should be constructed in the gallery of the alcoholic room, 
where there is yet space for them. Work on the collection of large 
skulls and skeletons in the attic is at a standstill, and little progress 
can be made until the portion of the collection removed to the second 
floor as a defense measure can be recombined with the collections 
remaining in the attic. 

Birds.—The rearrangement, reidentification, and labeling of the 
study series of bird skins consumed a large amount of time of the 
curator and the scientific aide. All in all, the contents of 114 quarter- 
unit cases and 50 half-unit cases were rearranged and reidentified. 
The collection of type specimens also was rearranged and expanded. 


34 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


The physical condition of the collection is as good as the crowded 
condition of the cases permits. 

On May 1 arrangements were completed for merging the Museum 
and the Fish and Wildlife Service ornithological collections. Though 
the two collections have not yet been actually combined, steps are 
being taken to put the merger into effect. 

Reptiles and amphibians.—The very crowded condition of the 
alcoholic herpetological collections calls for definite action on the 
matter of finding some suitable storage for the extensive series of 
alcoholic birds occupying 177 shelves in the reptile stack. 

A complete check of the type collection was made at the time of the 
return of the types to the Museum. Several errors in the records were 
detected and corrected. 

Fishes.—The alcoholic collections of fishes are much overcrowded, 
a condition requiring an unusually large amount of rearranging in 
order to make place for newly cataloged specimens in the study series. 
The joint efforts of the temporary cataloger and the scientific aide 
attached to the division resulted in 4,843 catalog entries for the year, 
mostly for fishes of the Albatross-Philippine collections of 1907-10. 
The collections continue in good physical shape and are being improved 
by the elimination of all wooden barrels, which are being replaced by 
earthenware crocks as rapidly as they can be obtained. Unless more 
floor space can be provided, little can be done to alleviate the present 
crowded condition of the stack. 

Insects.—As a result of the combined efforts of all members of the 
curatorial and custodial staff of the Museum and the division of insect 
identification of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
the study collections as a whole are in good physical shape, but little 
time has been available for urgently needed rearrangements. No 
change has been made in the installation of the collections, and there 
is still a considerable backlog of unavailable material, the reduction of 
which is dependent upon an increase in the staff. The return of the 
types to the Museum has facilitated the daily work of identification, 
but there has not yet been time to isolate them in individual trays 
except in two or three of the insect groups. Despite all handicaps, 
the great volume of service work, and a reduced staff, improvements 
were affected in many collections and progress was made in the incor- 
poration of both old and new material. Much more would have been 
accomplished but for obstacles resulting from the inadequacy of space 
and from the lack of equipment and supplies. 

The curator, Dr. HE. A. Chapin, rearranged the material of the 
family Melandryidae and nearly completed the rearrangement of the 
scarabaeid subfamily Cetoniinae. Some rearrangement incidental to 
the making of identifications was made in the Coccinellidae group. 
The associate curator, W. E. Hoffmann, arranged the collection of 


DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY 35 


Oriental Pentatomidae and Scutelleridae to genera and then began 
the task of making the specific determinations. It was necessary 
to spread some of the material and in some cases to remount it in 
order to make critical studies. 

No major progress was made in the rearrangement of the Orthoptera 
and Neuroptera groups, but gross sorting was kept up to date by 
Dr. H. K. Townes, who also incorporated the valuable R. C. Smith 
collection of Neuroptera in the study series. All the Nearctic 
Trichoptera were sent to Herbert H. Ross and the Corrodentia 
belonging to the genus Lachesilla to Kathryn Sommerman, both of 
the Illinois Natural History Survey, for study and identification. 

The rearrangement of the larval Coleoptera collections of Elateridae 
was completed and included the incorporation of material received 
from Robert Glen, of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, who 
used it as a partial basis for a large paper on elaterid larvae now await- 
ing publication by the Museum. Parts of the Anthribidae also were 
sorted, identified, and arranged in accordance with the findings of 
W.H. Anderson. Inthe collections of adult Coleoptera there were no 
large-scale rearrangements, although rather large quantities of new 
material were incorporated. This material represents the equivalent 
of about 50 schmitt boxes of specimens and resulted from the ‘‘special 
survey” conducted by the Bureau’s division of foreign plant quaran- 
tines, involving areas in the vicinity of ports of entry. On the whole, 
the collections of Coleoptera are in good physical condition. They 
are still far from satisfactory, however, with respect to completeness, 
accuracy of identifications, and availability for reference use. Large 
quantities of material in schmitt boxes and old cork-lined drawers 
still remain to be sorted, identified, and incorporated in the regular 
collection. 

In the section of Lepidoptera Dr. Harrison M. Tietz, of Peunsyl- 
vania State College, was again employed for three months by the 
Bureau in the division of insects to continue his work of incorporating 
and arranging in one unit the North American Phalaenidae of the 
Barnes, Blackmore, Engelhardt, Brooklyn Museum, Schoenfeld, and 
old United States National Museum collections. He succeeded in 
incorporating and arranging the material of four subfamilies in con- 
formity with the latest accepted classification. Until more standard 
drawers can be provided, Dr. Tietz will have to use the empty drawers 
of the Barnes collection as temporary storage for the arranged mate- 
rial. Although this is the best that can be done under the circum- 
stances, it is a very unsatisfactory arrangement, since these collections 
will have to be moved again when standard drawers are again avail- 
able. The alcoholic larval collection of Phalaenidae was also re- 
arranged and labeled to conform with the latest classification. The 
special survey of the division of foreign plant quarantines contributed 


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a large quantity of interesting and important reared Lepidoptera, 
which has been identified and placed in the regular collection. 

In the course of the year’s work on the Hemiptera collections, Dr. 
R. I. Sailer rearranged, determined, or incorporated from various 
other collections some 14,000 specimens. Probably the most impor- 
tant single improvement, making the collection infinitely more usable 
for reference purposes, was the establishment of an arranged collection 
of Neotropical Miridae. In the Homoptera J. C. Caldwell rearranged 
and incorporated over 8,000 specimens. In spite of this volume of 
work, the collection of leafhoppers and allied groups is in a discour- 
aging condition because, except for the family Cercopidae, the volume 
of unincorporated and unidentified material is almost equal to that 
in the arranged and identified collection. In the family Psyllidae 
excellent progress was made. Miss Louise M. Russell completely 
rearranged this family during the fiscal year, mcorporated in the 
Museum series the Crawford, Baker, Ball, McAtee, Morrison, Com- 
pere, and Koebele collections. Approximately six months were spent 
in transferring and identifying this material and adding donor labels 
wherever necessary. ‘The psyllid collection can now be said to be in 
good shape, and, though little time could be given to the aleyrodid 
collection, it is in fair condition. As the aphid collection was re- 
organized and expanded last year, no further extensive curatorial 
work was necessary. However, a large volume of material, particu- 
larly aphids, received from the special survey activity of the Bureau, 
was incorporated. The aphid collection is one of the few that can 
be considered in very good condition. It even includes provision for 
anticipated expansion during the next several years. 

Some definite improvement has been made in the Muscoidea of 
the Diptera collections in two tribes of the parasitic flies comprising 
the family Larvaevoridae. The tribe Leskiini was studied by Dr. 
M. T. James, who completely reidentified and reorganized the Mu- 
seum collection of these forms. A. R. Brooks, of the Canadian De- 
partment of Agriculture, studied, identified, and reorganized the 
tribe Phasiini, the rather considerable material of which in the Na- 
tional collection was sent to Ottawa for his attention. During the 
fiscal year most of the collection of dipterous larvae was transferred 
to standard vials in standard jars for more satisfactory arrangement 
and preservation, and the individual vials, as well as the jars and 
racks, were fully labeled. ‘Two-thirds of this task has been com- 
pleted, but its consummation will have to await additional subpro- 
fessional assistance. ‘The most extensive and important work of the 
year involving the Diptera collections concerned the mosquitoes. 
The mosquito collection under Dr. Alan Stone has grown immensely, 
particularly in species of the Oriental and Australian regions. About 
60 species were added which were not previously represented, and 
the mosquito collection is now undoubtedly one of the best in exist- 


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ence. It has required one full-time subprofessional worker to mount, 
label, and store the large quantities of incoming material. Very little 
rearrangement has been necessary in the case of the collection of 
adults, but the alcoholic collection, containing larvae and pupae, has 
been greatly expanded and has been reorganized. Another accom- 
plishment of Dr. Stone’s unit has been the expansion of the type col- 
lection of mosquitoes so that each type specimen is in a separate 
labeled tray. The trays are arranged according to family and author 
and alphabetically under the author by the original combinations. 
This collection of types now occupies a total of 21 drawers. The as- 
sociated slide collection is similarly arranged, with the slides filed 
flat. 

In the Hymenopiera, following the retirement of R. A. Cushman 
and the appointment of Dr. H. K. Townes to his position, rather 
extensive rearrangement of the collections of Ichneumonoidea and 
Serphoidea was undertaken. The Braconidae, the Aphidiinae, and 
the Cheloniinae were reorganized to permit more effective reference 
use, and the entire collection of Ichneumonidae was rearranged to 
conform with the classification given in Dr. Townes’s recently pub- 
lished catalog of this family. In the Chalcidoidea, the subfamily 
Cerocephalinae of the family Pteromalidae was completely reidenti- 
fied and rearranged in accordance with a revision of the group pre- 
pared by A. B. Gahan. A great deal of miscellaneous, unsorted ma- 
terial of all the groups of parasitic Hymenoptera was sorted and in- 
corporated in the regular collections, approximately 100 drawers and 
220 schmitt boxes of specimens. About 85 drawers and 450 schmitt 
boxes still await identification and incorporation. The holotypes of 
the Ichneumonoidea, except the Braconidae, were transferred to in- 
dividual trays with the original name and author pasted on each 
tray. ‘These now occupy 15 drawers. In spite of the lack of a reg- 
ular worker on the bees and wasps, some improvements in that part 
of the Hymenoptera collections were accomplished with the assist- 
ance of outside investigators. KR. M. Bohart redetermined and rear- 
ranged the contents of 20 drawers of Vespidae, and P. H. Timberlake 
worked over 6 drawers of bees belonging to the family Panurgidae. 
Dr. M. R. Smith reports complete rearrangement of the ants of the 
subfamily Dolichoderinae and the tribes Attini and Dacetoni, and 
the incorporation of the excellent collection of identified ants belong- 
ing to the genus Alta received from C. R. Gongalvos, of Rio de 
Janeiro, Brazil. Although on the whole the collections of parasitic 
Hymenoptera are comparatively well housed at present, this is defi- 
nitely not true for the aculeate Hymenoptera, including the ants. At 
least 60 percent more space is urgently required for the collection of 
bees, wasps, and ants. The general organization of the Thysanoptera 
collection, under the care of J. C. Crawford, is good; new material 
has been incorporated as received. 


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During the fiscal year Grace E. Glance was appointed to a specialist 
position with responsibility for identifications and research in the 
Collembola, Thysanura, and Entrophi. Since assuming charge Miss 
Glance has sorted, labeled, and arranged the recent material, which 
is being used as a base for the development of the collections. To 
this has been added a considerable quantity of material from the old 
collections, but more than half of the older material still remains to 
be studied, reidentified, and incorporated. Every opportunity should 
be used to obtain material in these groups by gift or exchange, as 
they have been long neglected, with the result that the collections are 
weak and most of the material poor. It is proposed to have Miss 
Glance spend some time in Montana after the war in order that she 
may study the Mills and Folsom collections at Bozeman. Dr. Mills, 
who has been very cooperative, has indicated that he would be pre- 
pared to turn over for the National collection at that time representa- 
tives of many Collembola not now contained init. Meanwhile, every 
specimen of Collembola, Thysanura, and Entotrophi received for 
identification that is in even reasonably good condition will be retained. 

During the year Dr. EK. W. Baker was appointed as a second special- 
ist in the section of ectoparasites and Acarina, with responsibility 
for the free-living mites. He has assumed custodianship of the collec- 
tion of these forms and has rearranged the material comprising 10 
different families. A beginning was made also on the reorganization 
of the collection of the large group Oribatoidea. In addition, Dr. 
Baker undertook to enlarge the series of individual species, as the 
representation of many species has been too poor to permit the critical 
study required for revisionary work. An alcoholic collection is also 
being developed to supplement the slide collection. Many slide 
preparations are being remounted to take care of deterioration due to 
the mountant employed. E. A. McGregor, working at the Bureau’s 
laboratory in Whittier, Calif., undertook to complete the revision of 
the spider mites, or Tetranychidae, on which he is the outstanding 
authority. Many hundreds of slides have been sent to him for review 
and reidentification. The collection, which has been in poor condition, 
will thereby be reorganized and brought up to date. Dr. H. E. 
Ewing rearranged the collection of Trombiculinae in conformity with 
a generic revision of the group published during the year. The 
collection of Anoplura is in good order and is arranged in accordance 
with modern ideas of the classification of the group; but that of the 
Mallophaga is in need of complete overhauling. In order that the 
great deal of Mallophaga material received for identification may be 
handled more expeditiously and may be more accurately identified in 
the future, E. W. Stafford, of Mississippi State College, was given a 
3-month appointment for rearranging and reidentifying this collec- 
tion. On the whole the collection of fleas is well arranged, with 


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nearly every specimen identified. Larger series, however, are needed 
for many of the forms. 

Marine invertebrates—The physical condition of the collections 
continues good. ‘The necessary routine records are up to date, having 
been carried along by the head curator’s secretary, Miss Lucile 
McCain. At the present time, the type collections returned from 
storage out of the building are being checked and relabeled where 
necessary. This is the first time that a complete inventory of the 
series of types has been undertaken. Library work in this division 
occupied a considerable part of the time of the temporary typist 
assigned to the head curator’s office, but a great deal more remains 
to be done. There were no changes in the exhibits except for the 
removal of two small cases of duplicate sponges. 

Mollusks.—The mollusk collections continue in good order, but 
quarter-unit cases are needed for the redistribution of types returned 
from storage during the year. 

Helminths, corals, and echinoderms.—There were no changes in 
these collections during the year except for the incorporation of new 
material in the helminth collection by the staff of the zoological divi- 
sion of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

Plants.—During the year 14,346 specimens of flowering plants and 
ferns were mounted, wholly by adhesive straps. In addition, 3,657 
photographs of type specimens were mounted for incorporation in 
the herbarium, 4,740 mounted herbarium specimens were repaired, 
and 5,314 typed or printed descriptions (with reference labels) were 
mounted on herbarium sheets. During the year 14,051 mounted 
specimens were stamped and recorded and thus made ready for the 
herbarium; about 1,000 are still unstamped. Of material awaiting 
mounting there is a backlog of about 31,000 specimens, approximately 
the number mentioned a year ago as unmounted. There are, besides, 
about 4,500 photographs of type specimens in European herbaria 
that should be mounted and added to the herbarium as promptly 
‘as possible. Sixty-five thousand mounted, stamped, and recorded 
specimens and sheets bearing mounted photographs or descriptions are 
on hand awaiting incorporation in the herbarium. Nearly all are Amer- 
ican, about 5,000 being West Indian and the remainder continental. 
. In incorporating United States, Mexican, and Central American 
specimens in the herbarium during the year, C. V. Morton spent two 
months in rearranging the Compositae, and in the course of this work 
he identified several hundred specimens in that and other families. 
Ellsworth P. Killip likewise incorporated a great deal of South Ameri- 
can material, this mainly in connection with identification work upon 
recent large collections. Lack of cases delayed the insertion of this 
material in the herbarium.~ Furthermore, the time that could be 
devoted to this work was greatly limited because of the pressure 
of other routine. 


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Mrs. Agnes Chase continued to serve as custodian of grasses and 
devoted her time almost wholly to the maintenance of this collection 
and its special library and to the identification of a wide array of 
material from many regions, especially the southwest Pacific. There 
was a steady influx of desirable material, much of which still awaits 
mounting. During the year 14 new herbarium cases of standard 
size were installed under the immediate charge of Dr. F. A. McClure, 
research associate, who is now engaged under the auspices of the 
Department of Agriculture in an extended study of the American 
species of bamboos. 

The type herbarium, the specimens of which were tightly packed 
for wartime storage, has now been entirely rearranged by Mr. Morton. 
It consists of 44,394 specimens, 784 additional types having been 
segregated during the year, and is contained in 120 small unit cases 
of eight pigeonholes each. 

As in other years, Mr. Leonard gave general attention to the lower 
cryptogams, devoting about one day a week to processing recent 
and accumulated collections (mostly mosses and lichens) and dis- 
tributing identified specimens into the herbarium. John A. Steven- 
son, honorary curator of the C. G. Lloyd mycological collections, in 
reporting upon their basic utility in taxonomic work, makes special 
mention of the Xylariaceae, Tylostomaceae, and tropical Poly- 
poraceae, the last group directly concerned with timber decay. 

In April the sectional library was placed in immediate charge of 
Dr. E. H. Walker. The shelves have now been completely rearranged, 
permitting far readier access to the books and a very advantageous 
new disposition of table space for study purposes. Much work was 
done in rearranging and cataloging the books; also the reprint series 
was renovated and made more useful. More volumes than usual 
were bound, and in general the library is greatly improved. 

Taxidermist shop.—In addition to the improvements in the public 
exhibits already noted, the taxidermists performed a great deal of 
work in planning better future exhibits and in preparing study ma- 
terial, skins, and skeletons for the mammal, bird, and reptile divisions. 
Miniature models were made of four animals for the Firestone Liberian 
group and of five groups intended for the North American hall. 
Forty-three animals were mounted for the exhibition series, as well 
as a celluloid replica of a 25-foot reticulated python. Skins made up, 
remade, repaired, degreased, or dismounted, including animals skinned, 
totaled: Mammals, 180; birds, 520. Skeletons, as well as individual 
skulls and sets of leg bones, other than those accompanying complete 
skeletons, attended to during the year included 721 mammals and 
92 birds; nine eggs were blown. Of 170 requisitions submitted by 
the curators of the department for taxidermist services, all but 24 
were completed. 


DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY 4] 


INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 


Mammals.—The curator of mammals, Dr. Remington Kellogg, pre- 
pared, for the use of investigators working for the Board for the 
Coordination of Malarial Studies, a check list with keys for macaque 
monkeys, which was published in the National Research Council 
report on primate malaria. He also published two papers on rodents 
from the South Pacific, a description of a macaque from Borneo, an 
account of the fossil cetaceans from the Florida Tertiary, and in joint 
authorship with E. A. Goldman a review of the spider monkeys. 
The associate curator, Raymond H. Gilmore, completed the identifi- 
cation of approximately 30,000 bone fragments, obtained during the 
course of field investigations by a number of American archeologists 
working in various parts of this country and Mexico, and also identi- 
fied about 50 Siamese and a number of Bolivian and Peruvian mam- 
mals transferred from the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American 
Affairs and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. Gerrit S. Miller, 
Jr., research associate, continued work on a revised edition of his 
list of “North American Recent Mammals.” H. Harold Shamel, 
scientific aide, made a study of the rats belonging to the Rattus rattus 
eroup and completed a brief synopsis of the bats of the genus E’ptesicus 
of the Western Hemisphere, including the description of a new form 
from Jamaica. 

Birds.—The curator of birds, Dr. Herbert Friedmann, completed 
a report on the extensive collection of birds made by E. G. Holt on 
the upper Rio Negro, Brazil, and the Upper Orinoco, in southern 
Venezuela, and, in this connection, published two papers and wrote 
two others now in press describing new forms. Work was continued 
on the manuscript of the twelfth volume of ‘‘The Birds of North 
and Middle America,” and the manuscript of volume 11, dealing 
with the falconiform birds was brought up to date. Some time was 
spent on the fifth edition of the ‘‘Check-list of North American Birds” 
and on the “Check List of Birds of Mexico” being prepared by R. T. 
Moore, L. Griscom, and the curator. He also published several papers 
on Antarctic and American birds. The associate curator, H. G. 
Deignan, began work on a check list of the birds of Siam and on a 
critical catalog of the bird types in the Museum collection. The 
assistant curator, S. D. Ripley, though absent from the Museum on 
war work, published two papers, one of the birds of the West Sumatran 
Islands and one on the golden oriole in Ceylon, and completed three 
others dealing with barbets, nightjars, and the use of certain terms in 
speciation studies. Dr. Wetmore devoted some time to the A. O. U. 
“Check-list of North American Birds’”’ and supplements and worked 
on the collection of birds from the Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama. 
He also worked on birds from Tabasco, Mexico, and published on a 
few unusual records, such as that of a golden plover in Nicaragua and 
a blue-winged teal on the high seas. Dr. E. M. Hasbrouck, volunteer 


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worker in the division, published a paper on the status of Barrow’s 
geoldeneye in eastern North America. 

Reptiles and amphibians.—The associate curator, Dr. Doris M. 
Cochran, completed a paper on the reptiles and amphibians of the 
Pearl Islands, Panama, based on the collections made by Drs. A. 
Wetmore and J. P. EK. Morrison, and completed notes on a collection of 
frogs borrowed from Instituto Butantan, drawing and describing 
several species not represented in North American collections. 

Fishes.—Nine papers by the curator of fishes, Dr. Leonard P. 
Schultz, were published during the year, and the final report on the 
Venezuelan fishes collected by him in 1942 and those collected by the 
U.S. S. Niagara in 1924-25 is nearly completed; other studies com- 
pleted deal with the carangid fishes of the genus Oligoplites inhabiting 
American waters, a revision of the genera of mullets, fishes of the 
family Mugilidae, and a revision of the genera of atherine fishes with 
descriptions of two new species and four new genera. The associate 
curator, Dr. Robert R. Miller, published two papers during the year 
and submitted four others for publication. At the end of the year 
he was engaged in studying certain collections from Mexican streams 
and caves, the cyprinids of Californian waters and southwestern 
Nevada, and the fish fauna of the District of Columbia. The scien- 
tific aide, Earl D. Reid, published one paper on two rare fishes from 
off the Virginia capes. 

Insects—The curator of insects, Dr. E. A. Chapin, devoted his 
available research time to the family Coccinellidae, with special 
reference to the Neotropical species, and continued his revision of 
the genus Hippodamia. 

The associate curator, W. E. Hoffmann, is revising the Scutel- 
leroidea of the Oriental region. In the orthopterous insects Dr. 
H. K. Townes made some small advance in the generic classification 
of the Dermaptera. 

Current work on the Coleoptera included W. 8S. Fisher’s studies on 
the wood-infesting beetles of the families Bostrichidae and Anobiidae. 
In order to complete his paper on the Bostrichidae it will be necessary 
to study certain type material in other institutions. Dr. W. H. 
Anderson completed a key to the genera of Anthribidae, based on 
larval characters and with numerous illustrations. In addition, he 
prepared nearly 300 permanent slides from dissected specimens of 
adult Scolytidae in furtherance of studies on several of the genera. 
The most intensive research work in the Coleoptera concerned certain 
genera of Elateridae, in connection with which J. M. Valentine has 
made a serious study of Drasterius and allied genera; it is expected 
that this valuable revisionary work will be completed during the 
next fiscal year. 

Part 3 of Blackwelder’s “Checklist of the Coleopterous Insects of 
Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America’’ was 


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published by the Museum during the year and the manuscript of 
Part 4 prepared. 

In Lepidoptera, H. W. Capps was able to devote a little time to the 
further development of his detailed study of lepidopterous larvae. In 
connection with an economic problem involving the pyraustid genus 
Leucinodes which arose during the year, Mr. Capps also initiated a 
revisionary study of the species comprising that small group. 

The assignment of R. I. Sailer to certain DDT studies in the field 
somewhat delayed his research on the Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Some 
progress was made on the revision of two genera of Pentatomidae, 
which contain important economic species, and on a revision of the 
bed-bug genus Cimex. Dr. J. S. Caldwell began a reclassification of 
the Cicadidae in the Homoptera and completed a rough key to the 
genera for testing in identification work. He also nearly completed 
a generic classification of the membracid tribe Ceresini, in which he 
depended to a large extent on characters of the genitalia, believing 
that a classification developed on this basis would be soundest from a 
phylogenetic standpoint. Since at least half of Miss Louise Russell’s 
time during the fiscal year was devoted to the reorganization of the 
collection of the Psyllidae, she had little opportunity to extend her 
research studies in the Aleyrodidae. She was able to accomplish 
some work on the small genera Aleuroparadorus and Aleurotithius and 
nearly completed a paper dealing with the known species. In the 
aphids, the large project of Dr. P. W. Mason involving a reclassification 
of the species of the genus Macrosiphum was continued. Emphasis 
during the past year was placed on a critical study of various closely 
related genera that will probably need to be covered by the treatment. 

In the Diptera Dr. M. T. James completed a paper on “‘The Flies 
That Cause Myiasis in Man,” which attempts to provide a means for 
identification of the many different forms involved in human myiasis, 
and a shorter paper revising the larvaevorid tribe Leskiini. He began 
a study of the Stratiomyidae of the Solomon Islands based largely on 
the collections of C. O. Berg. 

A. B. Gahan, in the course of his Hymenoptera studies, completed 
a revision of the chalcidoid genus Cerocephala and related genera, as 
well as a provisional revision of the Eneyrtidae comprising the genus 
Pseudaphycus, and has continued a classification of the supergeneric 
groups of Chalcidoidea. Most of Dr. M. R. Smith’s research time 
was devoted to the preparation of a generic and subgeneric synopsis 
of the Nearctic ants based on the worker caste, now virtually com- 
pleted except for illustrations. He also made a beginning on the 
development of a much-needed catalog of the Nearctic ants. 

In the section of ectoparasites Dr. E. W. Baker undertook a study 
of certain groups of oribatid mites, containing forms of medical im- 
portance, since they serve as intermediate hosts of tapeworms. He 
completed one paper dealing with mites of the family Cunaxidae and 


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another on the trichadenid genus Brevipalpus with keys and descrip- 
tions for all known species. He has in rough draft a generic classifica- 
tion of the family Cheyletidae. Dr. H. E. Ewing continued his work 
with the chigger mites, a group upon which a great deal of attention 
has been focused during the war, particularly because of the significance 
of these species as vectors of human diseases, and published one paper 
dealing with the forms of most importance in that connection. 

In the section of Isoptera Dr. T. E. Snyder, termite specialist of 
the Bureau’s division of forest insect investigations, is devoting two 
days a week to the termite collections, giving special attention to the 
development of a catalog of the termites of the world projected many 
years ago, a joint undertaking with Dr. A. E. Emerson, of the Univer- 
sity of Chicago. 

Marine invertebrates.—-The head curator of biology, Dr. Waldo L. 
Schmitt, compiled a chronology of the operations of the U. S. Fisher- 
ies steamer Albatross from the day of her launching to the day of her 
decommission, which was published in the American Neptune as an 
appendix to a brief historical account of the vessel by Joel W. Hedg- 
peth. He also prepared for publication reports on the miscellaneous 
lots of zoological material for the general report on the scientific results 
of the U. S. Antarctic Service Expedition. Two other manuscripts 
describing two new species of shrimps from South America and a rare 
crustacean from Africa are complete except for illustrations. Clar- 
ence R. Shoemaker, associate in zoology, continued his studies on the 
amphipod fauna of the western Atlantic and completed his study of 
the genus Bactrurus. His report on the amphipods of the U. S. 
Antarctic Service Expedition was published in April. Mrs. Mildred 
S. Wilson, assistant curator, who has been rearranging the collection 
of copepods, perhaps one of the most complete in any museum, began 
some studies of a number of rare forms and one new genus detected 
among the unidentified material. Dr. R. S. Bassler assisted Dr. 
Raymond C. Osburn’s studies preliminary to a handbook of American 
Bryozoa with photographs of many new species that he had segregated 
from west coast material. Dr. J. A. Cushman continued studies of 
Foraminifera begun earlier in the war period and, in addition, com- 
pleted several monographic studies of generic and subfamily groups. 
The type faunas of various geologic formations have also been studied 
and some of them published for use in correlations. 

Mollusks.—The curator of mollusks, Dr. Paul Bartsch, continued 
his studies on the east Pacific turrid mollusks, and, in collaboration 
with Dr. Harald A. Rehder, associate curator, is working on a mono- 
graph on the wood-boring mollusks of the genus Martesia infesting 
the west Atlantic. His section on the mollusks of ‘‘ Fishes and Shells 
of the Pacific World” for the New York Zoological Society is in process 
of being published. Dr. Rehder devoted considerable time to identi- 
fying mollusks received in large part from men in the armed services, 


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but he found time to prepare descriptions of several new species. The 
assistant curator, Dr. J. P. E. Morrison, as time permitted, worked 
on the collections obtained during his detail for work in the Pearl 
Islands from February to October 1944. 

Echinoderms.—The curator, Austin H. Clark, reports that Part 4c 
of his “Monograph of the Existing Crinoids” has been very nearly com- 
pleted except for the plates and that a preliminary report on the 
Ophiuroidea of the Albatross Hawaiian collections has been prepared. 
Papers dealing with the Onychophora of Panama and the Canal Zone 
and with the echinoderms collected by Drs. A. Wetmore and J. P. E. 
Morrison at the Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama, including a revision of 
the Pacific species of the echinoid genus H/ncope, were submitted for 
publication. ‘Two other papers by the curator were published during 
the year. 

Plants.—The curator of plants, Dr. William R. Maxon, published 
descriptions of several new ferns detected in the course of identifying 
various large tropical American collections. Ellsworth P. Killip con- 
tinued his researches upon the flora of northern South America. 
Emery C. Leonard is continuing with the Acanthaceae of Colombia 
and, in collaboration with H. A. Allard, published a supplementary 
paper on the flora of the Bull Run Mountains, Va. C. V. Morton 
continued work upon his synoptical catalog of the vascular plants of 
Cuba, with keys, and published a critical review of the Mexican plants 
(exclusive of Compositae) described by the late Marcus E. Jones. 
Dr. E. H. Walker published a paper on the plants of the Aleutian 
Islands, designed especially for service men, and carried on studies on 
New World Myrsinaceae. Mrs. Agnes Chase, custodian of grasses, 
resumed her monographic study of Brazilian grasses, and Dr. F. A. 
McClure, research associate, continued his study of bamboos, mainly 
tropical American. 

Diatoms.—The principal investigations carried on in the section 
of diatoms dealt with the diatom flora of Chesapeake Bay, the diatom 
content of oyster stomachs, and the diatoms of the Presidential 
Cruise. A method of marking rings on cover glasses was perfected 
and a study made of a better storage system for diatom collections. 

IDENTIFICATION, DISTRIBUTION, AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS 


The number of lots of specimens sent in with requests for identi- 
fication was as follows: Mammals, 68; birds, 43; reptiles and amphib- 
ians, 30; fishes, 34; insects, 142; marine invertebrates, 59; mollusks, 
101; helminths, 6; corals, 2; echinoderms, 11; plants, 291; diatoms, 1; 
a total of 788, involving more than 20,000 specimens. Besides these, 
30,184 lots of specimens were received by the division of insect iden- 
tification, United States Department of Agriculture, which furnished 
59,492 identifications. The total number of lots received by the 
Museum for identification represents a 30 percent increase over the 

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previous year. Each year there are a great number of requests for 
information other than identifications. 

The total number of specimens from all sources identified during the 
year by all divisions approximated 30,000 (not including 57,825 
identified by members of the staff of the division of insect identifica- 
tion, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine). 

Duplicate zoological specimens distributed to museums, colleges, 
high schools, and similar institutions, governmental agencies, and 
private individuals aggregated 80 transactions, 3,053 specimens; 
587 specimens were sent out in exchange, 853 as gifts, and 1,613 as 
transfers to military and naval centers. The 18,645 plants distrib- 
uted were sent out as exchanges to 93 institutions and correspondents. 
In addition, 74 photographs were distributed as transfers. 

NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT 


The summary of specimens given below is based on the numbers 
estimated for the previous fiscal year, with the addition of the speci- 
mens accessioned during the present year and the deduction of speci- 
mens removed during the same period. The figures of the early 
estimates were approximate and have been revised from time to time. 
No estimate has yet been made for the corals, nor does the number of 
plants include the lower cryptogams and duplicates. In several of 
the divisions lots consisting of minute organisms are frequently 
counted as single specimens, though they may contain hundreds and 
even thousands of individuals, the enumeration of which could serve 
no useful purpose. Processed specimens, such as plants mounted or 
diatoms mounted on slides during the year from duplicate and other 
material on hand, account for any unspecified increase in the annual 
totals of these groups. 


Miamimia ig ihc 8) Chane ee AC Ar Ane eS eee eens ae 247, 826 
Birds 
Skinigh dipey | Ppa tie joy voip Pees coe 6 Toned 291, 905 
(AL CODON CS 5 oy ee i ee 10, 082 
FONE) 1) eo = a ia a a ee oe 18, 251 
A ea x pea a gi lh ish 8B 90, 439 
410, 677 
Reptiles andjatiphibians 241222 Se Gs ose Wee 130, 486 
fo f= ae eae org ie ea eager AUN Let 9 Vem MMe ea co oy 1, 304, 651 
NS CO b Si ac ee i LAU aa Be ies ae ee 5, 640, 199 
Marmeinvertebrates!. © shee Sei i ee 2 1, 057, 042 
WMollisks2zQirigo% cB Odds TO ero teehee 3, 128, 220 
Belmifithsedt 26) sae ee poplars wih. el etelee Oe 35, 093 
Hichimodewms: se i7 fos eae ee, - tear i ayn 8 ee 177, 587 
PLGA es Sk eh ee Nh a ae 1, 877, 000 
Diatoms: 
Slides seer 2 aay aa ANS ae Nae Oa Bon Oe 20, 300 
Crude and prepared samples-_-_-_-------- 25, 031 
— 45, 331 


Total heehee 14, 049, 112 


DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY 
(R. 8S. BassteR, Head Curator) 


ALTHOUGH the operation of the department continued difficult in 
the fiscal year 1945, the third year of global war, the care and preser- 
vation of the collections and, indeed, some reduction in the backlog 
progressed satisfactorily. The safe return to Washington of the type 
specimens evacuated in 1942, with restoration to their proper places 
in the Museum collections, was a heartfelt relief. Good progress was 
made on the several war projects that have been under way for the 
past three years, particularly the cooperative work with Mexico 
carried on by Dr. G. A. Cooper in paleontology and Dr. W. F. Foshag 
in economic geology. 

An event of considerable importance to the division of invertebrate 
paleontology and paleobotany was the decision of the Director of the 
Geological Survey, upon invitation of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution, to transfer the large collection of Carboniferous and 
Permian fossils, hitherto located in the Interior Building, to the 
National Museum. This transfer will consolidate both the fossil 
collections and the paleontological staffs of the two institutions. A 
substantial portion of the Survey collection has already been moved 
to the Museum. 

Progress was made in Dr. Cooper’s study of the Paleozoic paleon- 
tology of Mexico, which yielded information that will be helpful in 
future location of ore deposits. With the help of several collaborators 
the project should be completed early in the next fiscal year. As a 
further part of this program, a 6-week visit from Ing. Albert Arellano, 
stratigrapher for the Geological Institute of Mexico, gave opportunity 
for closer collaboration with that country. Another visitor, under 
similar auspices, Dr. Y. Wang, of the National Geological Survey of 
China, came for a year’s stay to learn American research methods and 
to study the faunas of Ordovician formations, well developed both 
in the United States and in China. 

Wartime restrictions necessarily curtailed field work in vertebrate 
paleontology, but, offsetting this, more time became available to 
concentrate on preparatory work. The result was not only a consider- 
able reduction in the backlog of unprepared specimens, but also the 
completion of several mounted skeletons of outstanding merit for the 
exhibition halls. 

Two mineral collections, one from the classic Copper Queen mine at 
Bisbee, Ariz., and the other the T. Sterry Hunt collection, both ob- 


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tained from the estate of the late Dr. James Douglas, form a gift of 
exceptional merit to the division of mineralogy and petrology. The 
rock and mineral collections in general were consulted frequently by 
representatives of war agencies, and the staff continued to furnish 
information to military authorities and to soldiers in the various 
combat areas. 

The temporary appointment for the first quarter of 1945 of Dr. J. 
Brookes Knight, of Princeton University, an authority on Paleozoic 
gastropods, to revise the Museum collection of this class, led to later 
arrangements whereby, through the Walcott bequest, he would 
continue his studies during the coming year. 

Continuing on detail from the Museum, Dr. W. F. Foshag, curator 
of mineralogy and petrology, spent the year in furthering war work 
in Mexico by supervising surveys for strategic minerals. Dr. C. 
Lewis Gazin has been absent since July 20, 1942, on military detail 
in the service of the United States Army. 


ACCESSIONS FOR THE YEAR 


Study and exhibition materials received by the department during 
the year number 130 accessions and 23,770 specimens, in contrast 
with 123 accessions and 3,466 specimens during 1943-44, a note- 
worthy gain not only in amount but in quality. The figures for the 
individual divisions follow: Mineralogy and petrology, 70 accessions 
(868 specimens); invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany, 50 
accessions (22,542 specimens); vertebrate paleontology, 10 accessions 
(360 specimens). 

Mineralogy and petrology.—The income from the Canfield and Roeb- 
ling funds was again instrumental in bringing valuable accessions to 
the mineral and gem collections. Four accessions credited to the 
Canfield fund during the past year contained the finest specimen so 
far recovered of the new mineral brazilianite, from near Arrasuahy, 
Brazil; 10 tantalite crystals from Ceard, Brazil; an excellent beryl 
crystal from Pala, Calif.; from Madagascar, a colorless glassy spodu- 
mene and, for the exhibition series of gems, a 25-carat clear yellow 
spodumene. 

Through the Roebling fund 10 accessions were recorded, comprising 
principally gems and minerals. The minerals included 70 specimens 
of unusual calcite crystals with a new crystal habit from La Aurora 
mine, Chihuahua, Mexico; a specimen of natrolite from Livingston, 
Mont.; a 39-carat beryl from Wray mine, Yancey County, N. C.; 
and 2 specimens of quartz from Pact, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Credited 
also to this fund was a series of 8 minerals from Mexico, consisting of 
2 crystallized argentites (silver sulphide) from Guanajuato, 2 native 
silvers from Batopilas, one legrandite (zinc arsenate) from Coahuila, 
1 aguilarite (silver sulphide and selenide) from Taxco, and 1 stephanite 
and 1 pyrargyrite (both silver antimony sulphides) from Zacatecas. 


DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY 49 


The more important additions to the gem collection obtained 
through the Roebling endowment were as follows: A 40-carat Ceylon 
cat’s-eye chrysoberyl; a fine blue Ceylon sapphire of 9 carats; a white 
phenacite from Brazil, 9 carats; an attractive green diopside of 11 
carats from Madagascar; and a series of 8 cabochon jades of various 
colors, all gems of rare exhibition quality and value. The gem col- 
lection was further enriched by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Calvin 
Joyner of 16 different-colored jade rings and by an acquisition from 
the United States Customs Service of a series of 160 cut stones con- 
sisting of aquamarine, amethyst, opal, sapphire, garnet, zircon, and 
citrine quartz. A synthetic emerald of 90 points was presented by 
C. F. Chatham. 

The mineral collections benefited by a number of outstanding 
specimens acquired as a result of the special efforts of the associate 
curator to interest persons possessing good minerals to deposit them 
in the National Museum. ‘The most important accession comprised 
the Dr. James Douglas collection of copper minerals from Bisbee, 
Ariz., and the T. Sterry Hunt mineral collection. Before disposing of 
his general mineral collection, Burnham 8S. Colburn presented his 
more important and choice specimens of hiddenites, green spodu- 
mene, and cyanite. Likewise, a superb suite of 10 muscovite and 
biotite crystals was donated by S. P. Cronheim from his mine at 
Mitchell Creek, Upson County, Ga. 

Dean Frasche continued his interest in our collections by depositing 
a series of chromite crystals from the Sierra Chrome Mines, Ltd., 
Sierra Leone, Africa. The American Museum of Natural History, 
through F. H. Pough, exchanged seven tourmalines, one fluorite, and 
one amblygonite from Brazil and a specimen each of emmonsite (iron 
tellurite) and a new mineral, mackayite (also an iron tellurite), from 
Nevada. Frank L. Hess, in continuance of bis interest, donated a 
specimen of goldfieldite (a complex copper antimony bismuth sulphide 
and telluride) from the Mohawk Lease, Goldfield, Nev., and A. N. 
Goddard presented a crystallized specimen of gold from California 
and one opal in the matrix from the Carbanera mine, Guerrero, Mexico. 
The Foreign Economic Administration, through James S. Baker, 
transferred five specimens of cassiterite, tantalite, and muscovite, 
from Madagascar and Brazil. Another transfer came from the 
Metals Reserve Co., through Charles B. Henderson, consisting of a 
quartz crystal weighing 5.7 pounds, from Ashe County, N.C. This 
is said to be the finest quality quartz found in the United States. 

While temporarily stationed at the School of Tropical Medicine, 
Walter Reed Hospital, Maj. W. B. S. Thomas presented a twinned 
diamond crystal from near Accra, Gold Coast, Africa. An unusually 
fine crystal of ruby muscovite from Urubu mica mine, Espera Feliz, 
Minas Gerais, Brazil, was acquired from A. Renato Semola and Elip- 
idio Pitta, through the efforts of D. M. Larrabee. 


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Prof. Paul F. Kerr donated a specimen of tungstite and hydrotung- 
stite, a new mineral from near Oruro, Bolivia, and Prof. John W. 
Gruner presented a specimen of groutite, a new hydrous manganese 
oxide from Cuyuna Range, Minn. An unusually elongated concre- 
tionary form of marcasite from Delaware County, Ohio, was a gift of 
R. F. McAlester. The Geological Survey transferred an analyzed 
sample of siderophyllite (an iron-rich biotite mica) from Alaska. 

A sample of uraninite, 1,002 grams in weight, from Cornwall, Eng- 
land, and a crystallized andradite garnet from Graham County, 
Ariz., were obtained by exchange with Ward’s Natural Science Estab- 
lishment. Various muscovite mica specimens were collected for the 
Museum from many different producing areas in New Hampshire, and 
presented by Philip W. Gates. A series of cross sections of twinned 
crystals of Brazilian quartz formed a gift by Paul B. Bunton. From 
the Eureka Mica Mining Co., through N. W. Sides, several specimens 
of muscovite from Rio Arriba County, N. Mex., were received, and 
five natrolite specimens from San Benito, Calif., came from W. W. 
Bradley. Other gifts were one thulite (pink variety of clinozoisite) 
from Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nev., from Hatfield Goudey, and 
a fluorite from San Juan, Ouray County, Colo., from Mrs. Mary E. 
McClellan, through the Geological Survey. 

The Drum Mountain, Millard County, Utah, meteorite was added 
to the collections through the Roebling income. This 1,164-pound 
example was discovered last year by Y. Nishimoto and A. Ujihara, 
two Japanese who were temporarily located at the camp near Topaz, 
Utah. Dr. Stuart H. Perry, associate in mineralogy, presented an 81- 
pound mass of the Odessa meteorite, while Ensign Floyd A. Rapp, of 
the Merchant Marines, acquired a good specimen of australite while 
he was in Perth, Southwest Australia, which he donated to the collec- 
tions. | 

A suite of 22 nickel ores from New Caledonia was an important addi- 
tion to the ore collections during the past year, received by gift from 
C. H. Schneider. Frank L. Hess presented two specimens of uranium 
minerals from the Ruggles mine, Grafton Center, N. H., and one of 
granite from the dike at Hodgeon Hill, Buckfield, Maine. Chauncey 
L. Butts presented a gold ore sample from the Independence mine, 
Alaska, and 3 specimens of obsidian from Amchitka Island, Aleutians. 
The Geological Survey transferred 6 specimens of high-iron and high- 
alumina clays from Clinton County, Pa., a specimen of lead-zine ore 
from the Kimberly mine, Kokomo district, Summit County, Colo., 
collected by A. H. Koschmann, and a specimen of calomel (mercury 
ore) from the Mariposa mine, Brewster County, Tex., collected by 
R. G. Yates and G. A. Thompson. While on field work for strategic 
minerals in Mexico under the direction of Dr. W. F. Foshag, Ivan F. 
Wilson visited the Compagnie du Boleo, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, 


DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY 51 


where he collected eight specimens of copper ores and shipped them to 
the Museum as a gift from Pierre Mahieux of that company. 

The rock series and objects illustrating physical geology received 
the following additions: The Geological Survey transferred a collec- 
tion of 34 samples of manganiferous and ferruginous cherts from Perry 
and Lewis Counties, Tenn. Through Maj. Thomas C. Holland, 
Chaplain, U. S. Army, Mrs. Clarissa Humphreys presented the silici- 
fied interior of a septarium nodule from Montague County, Tex. 
Kaolin from Ringgold, Tenn., and a bauxite from McIntyre, Ga., 
were gifts of P. S. Roller. Further interesting additions to the geo- 
logical collections were 28 marcasite septaria from the Devonian of 
Ohio, from C. C. Hamel, and 13 iron concretions from the northern 
area of the Black Hills, S. Dak., from L. Allen Higley. 

Invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany.—-The total of 22,542 
specimens for the year in this division is more than 7 times the number 
accessioned in 1944 and is reminiscent of the good years before the war. 

One of the most noteworthy transfers from the Geological Survey for 
some years was recorded this year. This was the extensive Paleozoic 
collection made in the southern Appalachians by Dr. Charles Butts, 
geologist in that organization now retired, but still engaged in research 
in this division. This collection, numbering more than 10,000 speci- 
mens and representing the accumulation of many years of field work in 
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, is highly 
important for the information it contains bearing on the stratigraphy 
of the Appalachians. 

Another worthy transfer from the United States Geological Survey 
was that received through the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, from 
the Canol Project, Canada. The 3,500 specimens of Silurian, Devo- 
nian, and Cretaceous fossils comprising this transfer, mostly of fair 
quality, are of particular interest in their source, the remote regions 
of the Canadian Northwest. 

An outstanding addition of the year, the Bruno Louis Zimm 
collection of about 3,000 Devonian (Oriskany) fossils from the famous 
locality at Glenerie, N. Y., came to the Museum as a purchase through 
the Walcott fund. This collection includes many rare and unusual 
types, mostly of silicified specimens of brachiopods weathered from 
a siliceous limestone. Mr. Zimm, noted sculptor and amateur geolo- 
gist, painstakingly gathered these delicate, beautifully preserved 
shells from solution cavities in the rock where they had accumulated. 

Eight lots received by transfer from the Geological Survey contained 
mostly specimens sent in by geologists for identification. 

Important type specimens were received as follows: E. R. Applin, 
University of Texas, presented 55 slides of Cretaceous and Tertiary 
Foraminifera from subsurface formations in Florida, including many 
primary types; Dr. Rousseau Flower deposited half of the type 


52 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


specimen of the interesting cephalopod Endoceras faberi Foerste; 
Dr. J. Brookes Knight presented five specimens of a Pennsylvanian 
gastropod soon to be described as a new genus; Dr. S. A. Northrop 
gave four type specimens of nautiloid cephalopods from Permian 
rocks of New Mexico; Dr. Bradford Willard presented the type 
specimen of the Ordovician starfish Taeniaster maximus Willard; 
Dr. J. Stuart Williams gave the types of the peculiar Mississippian 
blastoid genus Ambolostoma; and Dr. G. A. Cooper, curator, turned 
Over a unique color-marked Devonian brachiopod received as a 
personal gift to him from Dr. Darling K. Greger. 

In the section of Cenozoic invertebrates, Benton Stone donated 
the types of a Peruvian Upper Eocene foraminifer. Tertiary larger 
Foraminifera from Panama and countries to the south formed a gift 
of Dr. A. A. Olsson, and similar larger Foraminifera from the Tertiary 
deposits of Morocco were received from Dr. Alfred Senn. Fifteen lots 
of the larger Tertiary Foraminifera of Panama were presented by 
Robert A. Terry. 

Other interesting gifts included a collection of Devonian inverte- 
brates from Rockford, Iowa, received from A. L. Haines; over 800 
specimens of Upper Ordovician Ostracoda from Missouri, received 
from James E. Keenan; 19 Permian brachiopods from New Mexico, 
from Dr. R. E. King; 250 specimens of Silurian and Devonian 
corals from western New York for the biologic series, gift of Irving 
G. Reimann; and 500 specimens of Middle Devonian brachiopods 
received from Charles Southworth. 

Three accessions were made up of material collected by the curator 
in the Appalachians and Mexico. The two accessions of Appalachian 
material brought mostly stratigraphic lots, including 1,350 specimens 
of invertebrate fossils and some silicified material to be etched. The 
Mexican collections consisted of Cambrian, Devonian, Mississippian, 
and Permian fossils from northwestern Sonora and wil add a fair 
number of types to the collection. No count of the specimens can be 
given until all the material is prepared and then divided with the 
Geological Institute of Mexico according to prior agreement. 

Through the special fund left for the purpose, the Springer collection 
of fossil echinoderms was enriched by purchases of Devonian crinoids 
from Ontario, from Charles Southworth, and of unusual Mississippian 
crinoids from the vicinity of St. Louis, Mo., collected by William 
Saalfrank. Additional specimens from the same St. Louis area were 
received in exchange with Charles E. Rhodes. 

Ordovician fossils numbering over 350 from the St. George and 
Table Head formations of Newfoundland, an exchange from Dr. 
Helgi Johnson, were valuable additions to the stratigraphic series. 

In paleobotany, a fossil hazelnut and 58 specimens of fossil woods 
from the Virgin Basin of Nevada, gift of Mark M. Foster, formed a 
worthy addition to the fossil-plant study series. 


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Vertebrate paleontology.—In spite of the necessary cessation of field 
work, an annual source of valuable material in this division, the 10 
accessions received included some unique specimens desirable for 
both the exhibition and study series. 

The outstanding exhibition specimen received was a composite 
skeleton of the large flightless pigeon Dodo ineptus, from Mauritius, 
which came by transfer from the division of birds. Although this 
unique bird continued to exist into historic time, its skeletal remains 
are exceedingly rare. 

A collection of 350 sharks’ teeth presented by the Misses Eleanor 
R. Binger and Anita James; a nearly complete dental plate of the 
extinct ray Myliobatis, presented by James B. Schultz, both from the 
Miocene of the Chesapeake Bay region; a molar tooth of the northern 
elephant Mammonteus primigenius, donated by Orville R. Edner 
through Robert Teeters; and a bird egg found 7% feet below the 
surface of Tinian Island in the Marianas Islands, the gift of Villion 
E. Riker, are accessions to the study series deserving special mention. 


INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS 


Three years ago the evacuation of the fossil, mineral, and rock 
type specimens to a place of safety was the major object of our activ- 
ities. Now, happily, the time has arrived to announce the safe 
return of these specimens and their replacement in the study collec- 
tions of each division. 

The head curator unpacked and replaced the type specimens of 
fossil echinoderms, corals, Bryozoa, Ostracoda, and insects, segre- 
gating them, in the case of the small and delicate organisms, from the 
general biological series. He was assisted materially by Miss Helena 
M. Weiss in checking and arranging the several thousand type speci- 
mens of microscopic fossils and thin sections. Similarly, Curator 
G. A. Cooper cared for the brachiopods, trilobites, and mollusks. 
In some instances he assembled the types in a body at the end of 
their particular groups, but with the brachiopods and gastropods it 
was necessary for the present to restore them to their original places 
in the biological collections. The Mesozoic invertebrate types, all 
restored through the help of Dr. J. B. Reeside, Jr., and several mem- 
bers of the Geological Survey staff, will henceforth be maintained as 
a separate type collection. Dr. R. W. Brown, of the same staff, 
undertook the care of the large collections of Mesozoic and Cenozoic 
plant types. Dr. Brown has done invaluable work in preparing, 
identifying, and generally improving the plant collections of these 
two eras. The Paleozoic plant types, which were packed by Dr. 
C. W. Read, also of the Geological Survey, await his return from 
field work before their return to the collection. Dr. Bartsch reports 
the safe return of the Cenozoic invertebrate types under his care. 


54 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


Curtailment of staff and preoccupation with war activities, as well 
as an unusually large amount of examination and report work, have 
slowed progress in caring for the general collections of the division of 
invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany. The curator was able 
to do but little on the exhibition collections, but some work was 
carried on in that field by the head curator with the assistance of 
Miss Jessie Beach and James Benn. ‘This consisted mainly in clean- 
ing and rearranging the exhibits and replacing or adding lettered 
labels of explanation or orientation to the exhibition cases. 

The paleobotany hall in the east wing, first floor, was reorganized 
during the year to permit an expansion of the vertebrate fossil exhibits 
through its center. Both the taxonomic and stratigraphic displays 
of fossil plants were restricted to a single series occupying the long 
continuous south wall case, with one exception. The fossil tree 
trunks and other large striking displays were retained on the floor 
at the west end not only because of their size but as an introduction 
to the hall. This streamlining of the plant exhibition series permits 
better lighting and in other ways makes it more easily comprehended 
by the visitor. 

The small steady increments that are usually added to the study 
collections continued. Each year sees these collections enriched by 
choice specimens acquired by exchange or purchase, through endow- 
ment funds, or through field work of the staff members. The best 
specimens are transferred from the stratigraphic collection as they are 
studied, and a cross reference of such specimens is maintained so that 
the stratigraphic value of the original collection is not destroyed. 

The head curator continued the work of identifying and modern- 
izing the Paleozoic coral collection This work, requiring thin sec- 
tions, necessarily goes slowly, but the slide collection is constantly 
being enlarged. Curator Cooper assembled all the Crustacea into 
one continuous series and completed the arrangement of the trilobites 
and brachiopod portions in rooms adjacent to his office. Dr. J. 
Brookes Knight, associate curator, likewise assembled the Paleozoic 
gastropod collection and made progress in its revision and relabeling. 

A good part of the curator’s time during the year was devoted to the 
preparation of the fossils resulting from his 1944 expedition to Sonora. 
All this material has been prepared except the Mississippian, which 
consists of numerous blocks of fossiliferous limestone now being 
dissolved in acid in order to free the fossils, an operation that has been 
going on for many months. The large vat for etching by acid was 
also in constant use during the year, yielding many fine specimens 
from the silicified blocks collected in Texas in 1941. The curator 
prepared and photographed all the Cambrian trilobites and Permian 
fossils from Mexico, including the specimens that will become types. 
In addition, he prepared for photography about 150 specimens from 


DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY 55 


the southern Appalachians to be added to the brachiopods that are 
to be illustrated in a monograph on the Chazyan and related brachio- 
pods. 

Special mention should also be made of the work of L. G. Henbest 
on the collection of Foraminifera. Mr. Henbest, the Geological 
Survey specialist on this subject, reports that all foraminiferal types, 
preserved mainly mounted on standard slides, have been segregated 
and stored in a steel cabinet. He also brought together into one room 
all the Museum collections of this group except those now under 
study by Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan. This organization of the collec- 
tion has greatly enhanced its usefulness as well as its safekeeping. 

Little work could be done on the stratigraphic series during the year 
because of lack of preparatory help. Some collections were added 
through Dr. Cooper’s field work in the Appalachians and by transfer 
from the Geological Survey. Much work is needed here in the way 
of weeding out poor material, concentrating the collections, and rear- 
ranging them to make better use of the space they occupy. These 
moves, however, will have to await additions to the staff. 

The division’s lack of staff, especially preparatory help, is piling 
up a backlog of work on the collections that will become staggering 
. if it cannot soon be arrested. The war has diverted the Geological 
Survey paleontologists from whom we normally receive a great deal 
of aid so that our progress since the coming of war has been exceed- 
ingly slow and sporadic. The collections are in reasonably good 
arrangement and fairly clean, but they are naturally getting out of 
date. 

The assignment to the division of vertebrate paleontology of addi- 
tional exhibition space in the north range of the east hall, formerly 
occupied by paleobotany, has permitted a rearrangement that has not 
only greatly improved the appearance of the exhibits as a whole but 
also has brought about a more natural grouping. For the first time 
in the division’s history the extinct birds are brought together as a 
unit, filling one alcove. The specimens have been newly renovated, 
and, with the added attraction of a dodo skeleton transferred from 
the division of birds, they present an assemblage that should prove 
interesting to our visitors. 

Besides supervising the preparatory work in the laboratory, Chief 
Preparator Norman H. Boss finished the mount of the Hypertragulus 
skeleton mentioned in a previous report. He also mounted and in- 
stalled a skeleton of the primitive titanothere Paleosyops paludosus, 
which is a beautifully executed piece of preparatory work. He is well 
advanced at the present time in mounting a skeleton of Merycoidodon 
culbertsoni, a mammal from the Oligocene rocks of Wyoming. All 
three of these animals are new to the exhibition series. 


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After spending the early part of the year in the preparation of mis- 
cellaneous specimens for the study collection, Thomas J. Horne has 
since been continuously employed in restoring the missing parts and 
mounting a skeleton of Scelidodon, a large sloth from Bolivia. This 
specimen, acquired through an exchange with the Chicago Natural 
History Museum, will form a unique as well as an attractive addition 
to the exhibition hall. 

Arlton C. Murray, in addition to assisting the two preparators, has 
been engaged in the preparation of various specimens for the study 
collections. He also made a considerable number of plaster bases for 
delicate specimens, thus insuring them against breakage through the 
opening and closing of the drawers in which they are kept. 

Mrs. Vera M. Gabbert, outside of her regular stenographic duties 
and keeping up the records of the office, rendered efficient service in 
checking and revising the card catalogs. She finished the fish, am- 
phibian, reptilian, and avian files and made a good beginning on the 
mammalian cards. Now it can be reported that, for the first time 
in the history of the division, the catalogs are in splendid condition. 

In order to determine the status of outstanding loans to various 
individuals and institutions, a circular letter was sent to all these cor- 
respondents, with the result that a majority of the specimens were . 
promptly returned. In a few instances where research problems were 
still in progress requests for extension of the loans were granted. 

At the time the choice minerals were removed from the exhibition 
cases for evacuation in the division of mineralogy and petrology, they 
were replaced by other samples from the study series. Therefore, 
with the return of the evacuated material, the first task was to re- 
move the temporarily installed specimens and incorporate them 
again into the study collection. These, with the crystal ball, val- 
uable gems and precious stones of exceptional worth, and the many 
type and analyzed rocks and minerals, were returned to the exhibition 
or study series without loss or damage. | 

In the mineral exhibition hall two new cases were constructed for 
the installation of some exceptionally fine gem stones. These cases 
introduced special lighting problems, making it necessary to build a 
preliminary model for experimental work in the display of the mate- 
rial. One case exhibits only gems with chatoyant properties, such 
as star sapphires, rubies, and the mineral cat’s-eye, while the other 
one is devoted entirely to fire opals of exceptional color display. All 
the regular gem and mineral displays were improved with a number 
of additions during the past year, and new labels replaced the older 
ones whenever it was deemed necessary. 

In January Mr. Benn inaugurated a new mineral exhibit, namely, a 
case devoted to the current birthstone of the month. Located at the 
entrance to the mineral hall, this display has attracted considerable 


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attention. Mr. Benn continued the locality index of all minerals 
now in our collections, which is particularly useful at present with 
the many calls for locality information. The type collection of 
minerals was rearranged and carded by a new system permitting 
additions without the many shifts necessary in the former method. 
The lantern slides of meteorites were indexed and cataloged up to 
date. 

B. O. Reberholt reports that during the year the grinding and 
polishing laboratory completed 80 thin sections of rocks and fossils; 
cut, polished, and etched 39 meteorites; and cut and polished 136 
ores, rocks, and minerals, in addition to performing the other usual 
tasks of his laboratory. 


INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 


In the identification work on the collections of corals, bryozoans, 
and echinoderms under his special care the head curator made fair 
progress and completed a manuscript entitled ‘‘New Species and 
Faunal Lists of Paleozoic Corals.’’? Less advance was made on 
several previously reported research works because of the time re- 
quired to unpack and restore the evacuated type specimens. One 
paper, ‘‘Memorial to Edward Oscar Ulrich,” former honorary asso- 
ciate in paleontology, was prepared and published by the Geological 
Society of America. 

Dr. G. A. Cooper spent most of his research time on fossils from 
Sonora, Mexico, with the result that all the Permian fossils have been 
studied and manuscript prepared on them. In addition to this, some 
time was found for the Appalachian studies, which led to a discussion 
of the Appalachian Middle Ordovician stratigraphy for the National 
Research Council chart. A joint paper with Dr. Byron N. Cooper, 
of the Virginia Geological Survey, largely written by B. N. Cooper, 
was also finished for publication. 

Dr. Cooper prepared about 3,000 photographs of fossils during the 
winter for use in the reports on Sonora, the Appalachians, brachiopod 
studies, and the Permian brachiopod studies. No continuous work 
has yet been done on the Permian brachiopods of the Glass Moun- 
tains, Tex., but over a hundred specimens were photographed during 
the winter when conditions were good for photography. He planned 
to take up this study of Permian brachiopods in earnest as a postwar 
project. Early in the fiscal year the paper on the stratigraphy of the 
Devonian of Illinois was delayed by new developments in connection 
with the subsurface discussion. In order to correct the difficulties 
Dr. A. S. Warthin, of Vassar College, coauthor of the paper, spent 
several days in Washington in further study and is now rewriting 
the subsurface portion. As soon as this part is completed the paper 
‘can be submitted for publication. 


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Dr. J. Brookes Knight, temporary associate curator, during the 
three months spent at the Museum, prepared two papers describing 
new genera of Paleozoic gastropods of the superfamilies Bellero- 
phontacea and Pleurotomariiacea. 

Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, associate in paleontology, was busy dur- 
ing the year with his studies on the larger fossil Foraminifera and with 
his care of the collections of this group and also of the Cenozoic corals. 

The members of the Geological Survey staff with offices in the 
National Museum have, as in past years, continued their investiga- 
tions of the geological collections. Dr. J. B. Reeside, Jr., chief of the 
section of paleontology, when not occupied in administrative matters, 
forwarded his researches on Mesozoic fossils. He also reports prog- 
ress on the National Research Council correlation chart of the Juras- 
sic and Cretaceous of the western interior of the United States. Dr. 
Ralph Imlay is studying the Jurassic fossils of the western interior of 
the United States and Alaska. Dr. H. E. Vokes is occupied with 
Tertiary fossils from Oregon and Washington, as well as his studies 
of Mesozoic Pelecypoda. Dr. L. W. Stephenson is engaged on the 
description of the Cretaceous (Louisville formation) of Texas; Dr. 
Edwin Kirk is proceeding with his studies of Paleozoic crinoids; Dr. 
R. W. Brown, paleobotanist, has a revision of the Eocene (Wilcox) 
flora of southern United States well under way. Dr. Wilbert Haas, 
assisted by Miss Patricia Proctor, is restudying and redescribing the 
type specimens of conodont fossils belonging to the National Mu- 
seum and conducting research on these fossils occurring in late Devo- 
nian and early Mississippian rocks. L. G. Henbest is continuing 
work on fossil Foraminifera. Dr. Charles Butts, retired member of 
the Geological Survey, is continuing his researches on the fossils and 
stratigraphy of the Paleozoic rocks of Georgia and parts of southern 
Virginia. Dr. C. Wythe Cooke is preparing a monograph on the 
Upper Cretaceous echinoids of the United States. 

Curator C. W. Gilmore, of the division of vertebrate paloentology, 
completed a manuscript entitled ‘‘A New Carnivorous Dinosaur from 
the Lance Formation of Montana.’’ This was based on a specimen 
belonging to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. A second 
manuscript, ‘A New Crocodilian from the Eocene of Utah,” was 
finished and transmitted for publication. Mr. Gilmore also devoted 
some time -to assembling information for a revision of the type 
catalog. | 3 { 

Associate Curator E. P. Henderson reports that because of numerous 
interruptions many of the research investigations in mineralogy and 
petrology that were started could not be completed and that the 
pressure of identification work made it necessary to interrupt some of 
the work in progress and start. new investigations. At present there 
is a rather large backlog of partly completed research. During the 


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year a chemical analysis and mineralogical identification were made of 
brazilianite (hydrous sodium aluminum phosphate), the new mineral 
from Brazil. 

Several new meteorites were analyzed: New Westville, Edmonton, 
Linwood, Drum Mountains, and Pine River. A specimen of taenite, 
the nickel-rich alloy, was laboriously selected from the New West- 
ville meteorite, and the nickel and cobalt and phosphorous contents 
determined. Dr. Stuart H. Perry partly completed the metallo- 
graphic study of the above-mentioned meteorites, and within a short 
time their descriptions should appear. 

Many of the minerals in the collection were X-rayed and spectro- 
graphed by members of the Geological Survey. Some of this work 
was necessary to assist the Survey members to identify minerals 
under investigation. These X-ray studies in part represent an effort 
for the division to have a more authoritative classification of many 
of our minerals. Dr. M. A. Peacock, of the University of Toronto, 
also studied in detail some of our min orale! 

Curator W. F. Foshag continued on detail throughout the year in 
his investigations of the economic resources of Mexico. Much of his 
time was spent in the field as director of the Geological Survey 
projects for the discovery of strategic mineral bodies. 

There were 207 lots of geological material referred officially to the 
depariment for examination and report, many of these involving large 
numbers of specimens requiring special attention. For instance, the 
38 lots of fossils referred to invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany 
consisted of over 1,000 specimens. The division of mineralogy and 
petrology was charged with 104 lots of rocks and minerals; vertebrate 
paleontology with 20 lots; and general geology cared:for by the head 
curator, 45 lots. In addition to the material received officially, each 
division reported on specimens mailed directly to the curators or 
brought in person, as noted in the reports given below. Official 
correspondence requiring replies on problems of geological nature 
numbered 347 letters. 

Sixteen loans were made to outside investigators totaling 464 speci- 
mens of invertebrate fossils, and in addition 93 photographs of Ordo- 
vician brachiopods were prepared for Rutgers University in exchange 
for a collection of Newfoundland Ordovician fossils. Several other 
institutions throvghout the country were aided in various ways. As 
in the past, the invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany staff and 
the members of the Geological Survey worked together in exchanging 
identifications of materials sent in to each organization. 

Loans of mineralogical and petrological materials were made to 
15 institutions for research. In addition much professional service 
was given to the public—this year 467 individuals called in person 
for assistance pertaining to gems, minerals, and meteorites. 


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Curator Cooper, in connection with his two field trips in the Appa- 
lachians, visited the Geological Survey of Virginia in the summer and 
fall of this fiscal year. He also made a trip to New York State to 
pack the large collection of Devonian fossils purchased from Mrs. 
Louise Zimm. Associate Curator Henderson visited the Carnegie 
Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and discussed work in the 
metallography of meteorites. Early in the year he spent several 
days in New York City packing and shipping the fine mineral collec- 
tion obtained from the estate of the late Dr. James Douglas. 


DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS 


Geological materials distributed during the year totaled 876 speci- 
mens. Thirteen gifts, containing 180 specimens, were sent out in- 
cluding principally rock and mineral sets to schools and universities, 
and paleontological specimens to research organizations. Exchanges 
of 88 specimens were completed with 16 institutions and individuals 
engaged upon research. Eighteen specimens, comprising three trans- 
actions, were transferred to other governmental agencies. Universi- 
ties, research students, Government war agencies, the Red Cross, and 
similar organizations arranged for 44 loan transactions during the 
year, aggregating 590 mineralogical and paleontological specimens. 


NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER DEPARTMENT 


The total number of specimens indicated below for the three divi- 
sions of the department is computed by adding to the estimated figures 
of last year the number representing the difference between the num- 
ber of specimens received and those sent out this year. Inasmuch as 
the early estimates were approximate, the present sums must con- 
tinue to be so. 


Mineralogy and petrology )22224%_ Sie) 239s, vow 257, 085 
Invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany_________-_- 2, 423, 720 


Vertebrate, paleontology eu: - os. seater puis be oe 2 29, 808 


DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIES 
(Cart W. Mirman, Head Curator) 


In this war year with its continuing emergency measures and man- 
power shortages, the activities of the department of engineering and 
industries were confined almost entirely to the processing of new 
accessions and to the unpacking and redistribution of its large tonnage 
of specimens returned from air-raid protection storage. New acces- 
sions were greatly in excess of the expected volume, being comparable 
in number to the average annual increment of 10 years ago. Fortu- 
nately, the demands on the department staff for assistance to war 
agencies and for information from private investigators and students 
were considerably less than in previous war years, so that by the end 
of the year all current work was well in hand. 

During the first four months of the year, Carl W. Mitman, head 
curator, continued with his special assignment of the maintenance 
of the Museum’s collections in protective storage outside of Washing- 
ton. This undertaking was terminated, however, in November 1944, 
and under Mr. Mitman’s direction the entire collection of more than 
60 tons of valuable specimens was safely returned to the Museum. 

With great sorrow the death on March 21, 1945, of Lt. Stephen C. 
Stuntz, Jr., former scientific aide in the division of graphic arts, is 
here reported. Lt. Stuntz was on military furlough from his position 
in the Museum and in the course of his brief military life advanced 
from inductee to liaison officer between ground and air forces. He 
was killed in a plane crash over Cebu City, Philippine Islands. 
Stephen Stuntz was one of the best known and best liked of Smith- 
sonian employees, and his loss is deeply felt by the entire Institution. 
Of all the 43 Smithsonian men in the service in this war, this was 
the only fatality. 

ACCESSIONS 

Accessions for the year totaled 178, comprising 3,199 specimens. 
This is an increase of 14 accessions and 1,811 specimens over the 
previous year. The accessions were distributed as follows: Engineer- 
ing 39 (77 specimens); crafts and industries, 57 (2,681 specimens) ; 
graphic arts, including photography, 82 (441 specimens). Of this 
large group, the following are deserving of special mention: 

Engineervng.—The outstanding accession in this division is the first 
experimental jet-propelled pursuit airplane built and successfully 
flown in the United States. Known as the Bell Airacomet XP 594A, 
it was designed and constructed by the Bell Aircraft Corporation at the 


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request of the U. S. Army Air Forces in 1941-42 and was first flown 
by Robert M. Stanley, former chief test pilot of that corporation, on 
October 1, 1942. Following over 2 years of “‘guinea-pig”’ service in the 
Air Forces involving several hundred flights, the airplane was trans- 
ferred by the War Department to the National Museum. Here it 
holds the unique position of being the first propellerless airplane in the 
collection, and it represents as well, perhaps, the greatest new develop- 
ment in aeronautical engineering of the past decade. The Airacomet 
may be technically described as a twin-engine, single-seater fighter 
plane with retractable tricycle landing gear. The engines, located 
beneath the wing, one on each side of the fuselage, were produced by 
the General Electric Co. on modifications of a British design developed 
by Group Captain Frank Whittle, RAF. 

The automotive collections were enhanced by two unique gifts— 
a radial 9-cylinder Diesel engine and an original 1902 Oldsmobile. 
The Diesel engine is one of the type designed for and used in the U. 8S. 
Army M8 light tank. It was made especially for the Museum, with 
the Army’s permission, by the Guiberson Diesel Engine Co. and is 
sectionalized and operating. It serves well to demonstrate to the 
layman the modus operandi of a modern Diesel, and at the same time 
reveals a type of power plant used by the United States armored forces 
in World War IJ. The 1902 Oldsmobile came to the Museum as a 
bequest of the late Thomas A. Peabody. It is a beautifully preserved, 
complete, unaltered, original specimen of the famous curved-dash 
tiller-steered, 2-passenger runabout, produced by the pioneer auto- 
mobile manufacturer R. EH. Olds. The Museum’s model is one of 2,500 
produced in 1902, a quantity far above that of any other contemporary 
automobile manufacturer, and sold at the then unheard of price of 
$650. This low cost in combination with the proven sturdiness and 
dependability of the ‘Merrie Oldsmobile” of the early 1900’s contri- 
buted much to making America automobile-minded. 

Two accessions of note added to the department’s communications 
collections, radio section, were a Marconi coherer and a spark trans- 
mitter presented by Oscar C. Roesen. The Marconi coherer was 
the ‘“‘heart’’ of wireless telegraphy before the invention of the electron 
tube and is, therefore, a required object in any visual record of wire- 
less communication. Heretofore an original coherer was not in- 
cluded in the Museum’s collection, and so Mr. Roesen’s gift was 
especially appreciated. ‘The wireless transmitter is of the year 1911 
and is one of the earliest experimental sets designed by Mr. Roesen 
for wireless communication between an airplane and the ground. 
With this set installed in a Curtiss airplane, the pilot while in flight 
transmitted intelligible Morse-code messages to a receiver on the 
ground. Another interesting communications object added to the 
collections was an original electric telegraph fire-alarm and street box 


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such as was installed on the streets of Boston in 1851. One of the 
earliest practical systems of fire alarm signaling by electric telegraph 
was invented by Moses G. Farmer and Dr. William F. Channing, 
of Boston, and it is believed that the street box outfit, described here, 
is a relic of one of the first commercial installations made by the in- 
ventors. The street box and contents were presented to the Museum 
by the Gamewell Co., well-known manufacturers of fire-alarm equip- 
ment. 

Crafis and industries —The 2,681 specimens covered by the new 
accessions of this division were distributed as follows: Textiles, 1,083; 
woods, 118; chemical industries, 91; agricultural industries, 24; and 
medicine, 1,365. In textiles, an outstanding accession of the year is 
a historic document deposited by Mrs. Georgia Slater Bartlett and her 
sister, Miss Lydia R. Slater. This is the original indenture of their 
ereat-grandfather, Samuel Slater, to Jedediah Strutt and was signed 
by both of the contracting parties in Derbyshire, England, on Janu- 
ary 8, 1783. After completing his apprenticeship of 6% years in the 
art of cotton spinning, Samuel Slater, a youth of 20, decided to try 
his fortune in America. The English, or Arkwright system, of con- 
tinuous spinning was unknown here, and a strict embargo was en- 
forced in England to prevent workers, models, or drawings of any 
sort from leaving the country. Consequently, young Slater brought 
with him only the indenture. Owing to his remarkable photographic 
memory he was able to build in Pawtucket, R. I., the machinery for 
the first mill in this country for spinning cotton by the Arkwright 
system. The National Museum, as custodian of Samuel Slater’s 
original cotton-spinning frame and of one of his cotton-carding ma- 
chines, is indeed fortunate in being able to include the indenture with 
the original machinery. Another historically important gift, presented 
by Mrs. Mary Stafford Reed, consists of a collection of books con- 
taining samples of printed cotton and wool fabrics, with recipes for 
dyeing and printing. These were used during the 1870’s and 1880’s 
in England, and in Dover and Manchester, N. H., by an English 
dyer, Thomas Stafford. 

Wartime textiles and those inspired by the war are represented in 
the following gifts: A machine-gun turret-slot installation using 
“Tackle Twill’ for extending the tape of a slide fastener, from the 
Spool Cotton Co. and Crown Fastener Corporation, through William 
Skinner & Sons; types of fireproof cloths of fiberglas and asbestos 
yarns, and the application of these in a side section of the tail-wheel 
boot for a P-47 Thunderbolt plane, from Campbell Products; acetate 
rayon fluorescent satin, used for signal panels by the U. S. Army 
Signal Corps, from J. P. Stevens & Co.; and a series showing the 
screen-printing process of ornamenting a jacquard-figured rayon crepe 
with a 3-color, army automobile motif, together with the actual 


64 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


screens used for the application of each successive color, from William 
Skinner & Sons. <A particularly interesting item with this group is 
a printed nylon camouflage cloth with irregular-shaped blotch pat- 
terns simulating foliage, and designed as protective coloring for army 
parachutes. The textile study series were enhanced through the 
generous gifts of Miss Ruth M. Brenner and Mrs. Blanche C. Lewton. 
Miss Brenner gave 984 pictorial prints on cotton, rayon, and silk 
cloths classified by inspirational sources, while Mrs. Lewton presented 
representative rayon fabrics identified by name, weave, material, use, 
and source. 

To the collections of early homecraft textiles a number of note- 
worthy specimens of weaving, needlework, and supplementary items 
were added by gifts and loans. Included were a pictorial linen table- 
cloth from Everett Mellen Stevens and his children and household 
homespuns from the Rev. Walker Mayfield; coverlets in overshot 
and single and double jacquard weaves from Miss Lou Babb Rusk, 
Mis. Gertrude O. S. Cleveland, and Mrs. Ethel V. Noel; pieced and 
appliqued quilts from Mrs. Helen R. Payne and Norman L. Kil- 
patrick; and examples of hand-embroidered cotton, linen, and silk, 
and pen-and-ink work, from Mrs. Clarence J. Robinson and Miss 
Maude M. Fierce. 

A gift of historical importance to the section of chemical industries 
was a series of specimens of lewisite, American mustard gas, or 
“blister gas,’’ and derivatives therefrom, prepared by Maj. H. W. 
Stiegler for use by Col. W. Lee Lewis, in his many lectures on chem- 
ical warfare. ‘The specimens are in sealed glass tubes arranged in an 
ingenious mahogany case, designed and made by Major Stiegler in 
such a way that they can be easily removed for classroom demonstra- 
tion. The case of specimens was presented by Mrs. W. Lee Lewis, 
the widow of the man who first isolated and developed this deadliest 
of World War I gases. An umbrella frame constructed with ribs of 
whalebone and used by G. Hobbs between 1835 and 1865 at Barre, 
Mass., was presented by his grandson, A. M. Harrington. This was 
added to the extensive series of articles made from whalebone already 
in the Museum. Two pneumatic life rafts, a U. S. Army A-3-4 
type and a U.S. Navy Mark IV type D, made of synthetic rubber, 
with full sets of the contractor’s emergency equipment were loaned 
by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., for exhibition with other 
materials showing important uses of rubber in World War II. 

Accessions of scientific value in woods and wood technology were 
20 woods collected with herbarium material by Lt. C. H. Stoddard, 
U. S. Naval Reserve, in the Russell Islands group of the Solomon 
Islands; 12 woods, collected mostly in the State of Amazonas, Brazil, 
also with herbarium material, by Dr. J. T. Baldwin, Jr., and trans- 
ferred by the Office of Rubber Investigations of the Department of 


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Agriculture; 63 specimens, mostly trade samples of the woods of the 
Philippine Islands, a gift from Maj. Alfred H. Thiessen, U. S. Army 
(retired); and 2 very interesting specimens collected by J. L. Stearns. 
One is a piece of the wood of a chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, 
grown near Memphis, Tenn., which shows unusually wide annual 
growth. The other is stemwood of the common poison ivy, Tozi- 
codendron radicans, cut on the bank of the Patuxent River near 
Laurel, Md., from a vine over 3 inches in diameter. 

The outstanding accession in the division of medicine was the en- 
tire equipment and furnishings of an Old World apothecary shop of 
the period of 1750. This large collection, consisting of nearly 1,200 
specimens, was gathered in Europe over a period of 40 years. It is 
unique in completeness of original materials and in its variety. It 
was acquired by E. R. Squibb & Sons and brought to the United 
States in 1932, when part of it was exhibited at the Century of Prog- 
ress Exposition at Chicago. Subsequently it was assembled in New 
York City as a private museum. The fixtures of the old shop were 
part of the Cathedral Pharmacy, Freiburg, Germany. The mortars, 
bottles, drug jars, and other objects of the original shop are supple- 
mented by like specimens from shops of the same vicinity and period. 
Wooden drawers, which were once filled with drugs, still retain their 
original labels. Books, many handwritten and some incunabula, 
from which pharmacists of the eighteenth century obtained their 
knowledge, are part of the collection, as are the instruments, appli- 
ances, and tools, with which they worked. Of unusual interest are 
the franchises, issued and signed in 1728, 1791, and 1824, by Emperor 
Carl VI, Emperor Leopold II, and Pope Leo XII, respectively. The 
seals of the first two are enclosed in walnut boxes, and the seal of the 
last in a silver-plated brass case. These franchises gave the phar- 
macists to whom they were issued the right to prepare and sell ‘‘life 
pills,” to produce and sell a healing plaster, and to establish a new 
pharmacy in Rome, respectively. Stuffed animals, which were prom- 
inent adornments of early apothecary shops, are also included. In 
the eighteenth century, parts of crocodiles, lizards, tortoises, sharks, 
and similar animals were medicinal agents, and people were convinced 
that the store that exhibited the animals dispensed the real medicines 
and not substitutes. Today, as in the days of old, drug stores con- 
sist of two rooms, one in which the pharmacist makes contact with 
customers, and the other a combination of laboratory, workshop, 
and study. The collection when exhibited in New York City fol- 
lowed this pattern, and a similar installation is now under way in 
the Museum. This valuable collection was donated by E. R. Squibb 
& Sons to the American Pharmaceutical Association, and the associa- 
tion in turn has made it available to the Museum as a deposit. 


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Graphic arts—The accessions received by<this division surpassed 
those of the previous year both in quantity and in general importance. 
Chief among the accessions was the unique gift of Charles W. Dahl- 
green, who presented the Smithsonian Institution with 76 copper 
plates of his work in etching, aquatint, and drypoint. These plates, 
many of which are in almost unused condition, were deposited with 
the division of graphic arts with the understanding that they are to 
be used to make prints, to be sold as a Smithsonian Edition. The 
proceeds from the sales will compose the Charles W. Dahlgreen fund, 
which will be used to enlarge and improve the collections of graphic 
arts. In addition, Mr. Dahlgreen presented a series of 76 etchings 
and drypoints printed from these plates. This handsome collection 
of prints makes one of the largest representations of fine prints by a 
single artist in the Museum’s collections. 

Another accession of importance was a miniature working replica of 
the Stephen Daye press, the first printing press to be used in the 
American colonies, 1639. The model is the work and gift of Alfred 
T. Breitengross. It is made in brass and executed with such ac- 
curacy and precision that, although the model press is but 7 inches 
high, it is possible to do actual printing with it. 

Dr. Edwin Kirk presented 12 etchings, a number of them of out- 
standing quality. ‘“‘La Pompe Notre Dame” and ‘‘Ministére de la 
Marine,”’ by Charles Meryon, the great nineteenth-century French 
etcher, are works of considerable value and are the only examples by 
this artist in the collection. ‘‘La Place Pigalle,” by Felix Buhot, 
another famous French etcher, is a highly desirable print. Dr. Kirk 
also contributed excellent prints by Lalanne, Pennell, Ribot, Flameng, 
Moran, Chauvel, Taylor, and Rajon. Another accession worthy of 
mention was the gift made by Joseph P. diGemma of three fine prints 
made from plaster relief blocks and one print from a rubber relief 
block. The prints from plaster constitute a new use of this material 
and form a contribution to graphic-arts printing processes. The work 
is executed in the same manner as that of the linoleum cut or wood 
cut, but, since the plaster would absorb the printer’s ink and crumble 
under pressure, the surface is treated with a coat of linseed oil, which 
has the property of preventing absorption as well as making the edges 
of the plaster firm. No press is used in the printing, which is done 
by rubbing the back of the paper with a smooth, hard object. 

Little has remained of the technical equipment of American 
painters of a hundred years ago, a circumstance that makes particu- 
larly desirable a gift from Mrs. Olive Cole Smith of a paint box, 
bladders, tins, and packets of pigment used by Deborah Goldsmith 
Throop in 1830. The bladders are especially to be noted since they 
were in general use as pigment-containers before the invention in 1841 
of the collapsible metal tube. Mortimer Borne contributed to the 


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collections a color print of a unique type, a drypoint printed in color 
from three plates in red, yellow, and blue inks. Mr. Borne states that 
this process has never been used before, although other artists have 
used drypoint in combination for color work. His gift of ““The Road”’ 
is therefore of unusual interest. Artists whose work was shown dur- 
ing the year in the division’s special monthly exhibitions were the 
source of interesting additions to the permanent print collection. 
Thus two color aquatints, a lift-zround etching and a soft-ground 
etching, were contributed by Mrs. Kathleen Macy Finn; Mrs. Gene 
Kloss gave one of her brilliant aquatints; and Ben Messick presented 
two of his vigorous lithographs. 

Among other accessions of importance is a miniature painting on 
glass, falsely attributed to Rembrandt Peale but nevertheless a paint- 
ing of considerable merit. The gift of Mrs. Natal Sussanne, it repre- 
sents a difficult and unusual example of miniature painting in that the 
subject, a classical landscape, is painted directly on the reverse side 
of the glass. From Earle W. Huckel the division acquired by gift 
12 examples of graphic arts, the most important of which is an invi- 
tation card used by Thomas Sully. Others include seven mezzotints 
of prominent men of the pre-Civil War Period executed by A. H. 
Ritchie, from R. P. Tolman; an old-fashioned water lens and stand, 
from Mrs. Macowin Tuttle; an engraving of the Lord’s Prayer, exe- 
cuted about 1862-64, in a circle 13/32-inch in diameter, from Mrs. 
Flora H. Wetzel; two original engraved wood-blocks by James Bann, 
from Miss Helen Bann; and an American wood-engraving of a religious 
subject printed from four color-blocks, from Jacob Kainen. The 
Smithsonian Institution deposited in the division the current Asso- 
ciate Member’s print of the Society of American Etchers, ‘““The Flight 
into Egypt,” by Carl M. Schultheiss, A. N. N. 

During the year the section of photography acquired a wide variety 
of pertinent material for addition to its extensive collections. The 
principal accession probably is the gift of Fuller & d’Albert of a 
collection of rare old lenses of French, English, German, and American 
manufacture. ‘These were acquired over many years by the late Mr. 
d’Albert during the conduct of his photographic supply business. 
The collection includes two viewing lenses for the early type of 
“‘Mutoscope.”” From the Brenner Photo Co. and from E. E. Strong, 
Edward Strauss, and Mrs. T. J. Holzberg the section received as 
gifts a number of historically interesting cameras of the 1890’s and 
early 1900’s. Another valuable accession was a Beidler-Viken twin- 
lens camera presented by A. J. Viken. This type of camera was 
invented by Messrs. Beidler and Viken and was the first practical 
large twin-lens instrument designed especially for portraiture. It 
has been widely used for both home and studio work since 1923. An 
important addition to the motion-picture series came as a gift from 


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the DeVry Corporation, the first portable motion-picture projector, 
designed, patented, and made in 1912 by Dr. H. A. DeVry, who is 
often referred to as the father of visual education. George R. 
Goergens contributed a speeding-up mechanism for motion-picture 
cameras patented by him in 1919 and a tripod head geared for attach- 
ment to an ordinary camera for making panorama pictures which he 
invented in 1915. 

Other gifts were as follows: A Wynne Infallible Exposure Meter 
from Oscar Ehrlich; two daguerreotypes and two ambrotypes called 
“Sphereotypes,’’ patented May 27, 1856, hitherto unrepresented in 
the collections, from Miss Heloise Brainard; four specimens of very 
early motion-picture film, with bound edges, which can be projected 
in 50-foot lengths on an Amet projector, one of which is in the collec- 
tions, from Arthur F. Johnson; and from Mrs. Everett. Tutchings, 29 
portraits by her father, Pirie MacDonald, representing his work before 
Ban. INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS 

The work involved in the installation and preservation of the collec- 
tions in the department was particularly heavy as it included the 
unpacking and redistribution of about 2,000 specimens returned from 
air-raid protective storage and the processing of over 3,000 new speci- 
mens. The task was a difficult one because of the lack of help and 
because of the critical shortages of both exhibition and storage space. 
Three weeks’ time of the total available manpower of the engineering 
division was consumed, for example, in the unpacking, assembling, 
and exhibition of the historic Wright airplane when it was returned 
from storage. Again, to obtain space in the Aircraft Building for the 
exhibition of the Bell jet-propelled airplane, every airplane and 
exhibition case had to be moved. The task consumed two weeks’ 
time of the engineering staff, the help of four laborers, and a crew of 
five skilled men furnished by the Bell Aircraft Corporaticn. With 
this installation, no space remains for additional aircraft. The same 
critical situation exists in the department’s sections of land and water 
transportation, textiles, chemical industries, and wood technology. 
Only such additions to the collections .can be accepted as can be 
accommodated in the existing overcrowded exhibition and storage 
cases. 

Engineering.—All specimens returned from storage were cleaned 
and some repaired before being placed on exhibition or in storage. 
As time permitted, additional exhibits were renovated, involving 
the cleaning and repairing of specimens and repainting case interiors. 
In this connection two innovations were introduced, i. e., the use of 
a hard enamel paint on the flat surfaces of unglazed exhibition bases, 
and the use of a fast-drying plastic paint on the shelves of exhibition 
cases. The enamel paint used in place of the customary flat finish oil 


DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIES 69 


paint makes the cleaning of bases easier and provides a durable 
surface. The plastic interior shelf paint speeds up the job of renova- 
tion of cased exhibits in that the delays to permit ordinary oil paint 
to dry are eliminated. All new specimens received during the year 
were fully processed involving accessioning, cataloging, numbering, 
repairing, and placement, either on exhibition, in study collections, 
or in storage. 

Crafts and vndustries—The return of evacuated materials made 
necessary the reinstallation of many important specimens, including 
the Slater spinning frame, a model of the cotton gin from Eli Whitney, 
Jr., sewing-machine models, looms, and other textile machinery. One- 
yard record samples of textiles numbering 1,861 were unpacked, allo- 
cated, recorded, and stored for convenient reference and study. The 
large case showing progressive steps in the manufacture of worsted 
and woolen yarns was painted, the specimens were renovated, and the 
method of installation was improved. New parts were obtained for 
the demonstration braiding machine, and labels throughout the collec- 
tions were improved. 

An entire rearrangement was made of the oilcloth, limoleum, and 
carpet exhibits on the east-south range gallery to accommodate the 
collections relating to agriculture and foods. This over-all change 
provided additional space on the main floor range for the expanding 
handcraft textile exhibit. The major task involved in this move was 
the complete dismantling and reinstallation of the operating diorama 
depicting the production of Borden condensed milk. The diorama 
is 24 feet long and its scenic background was painted on one long piece 
of canvas. This was removed, renovated, cut into three pieces and 
mounted on three panels to fit the back of the triple case, and joining 
strips were painted to match. This unusual undertaking was accom- 
plished under the direction of Edward A. Avery, assisted by the shops 
and artists of the National Collection of Fine Arts. 

Six new installations and 11 reinstallations of chemical industries 
exhibits were made on the south gallery and the southwest court 
gallery. All the woods from type trees, and other wood specimens 
brought back from safety storage, were unpacked and returned to 
their original places in the collection, where they are again easily 
available for comparison and study. All are in good condition. 

In the division of medicine and public health the major installation 
undertaken was the preparation of plans and the starting of construc- 
tion of a full-size reproduction of an apothecary shop 1750. This is 
intended to accommodate and exhibit the valuable collection deposited 
by the American Pharmaceutical Association described earlier in this 
report. The shop consists of two rooms, one in which customers were 
met, and the other the pharmacist’s study and laboratory where 
medicines were made. Progress has been necessarily slow in the under- 


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taking for it involves the accurate and faithful reproduction of a 
typical eighteenth-century building as well as the creation of the 
atmosphere of the late Renaissance period when the shop was in 
operation. At the close of the year the basic construction and plaster- 
ing work was completed, and the completion of the shop and the 
installation of the collection is anticipated during the coming year. 

Graphic arts—No major changes in exhibition were made in this 
division during the year. The Franklin press exhibit was augmented 
by the inclusion of a photograph of a painting by Charles B. Mills, 
depicting Benjamin Franklin as a young man at work on the identical 
press on exhibition. In this picture one can see the press in operation 
and the interior of a printing establishment of that period. Franklin’s 
early newspaper, The New England Courant, was moved closer to the 
front of the case so that it can be read more easily. Additional prints 
were placed in the solander cases on the shelf built two years ago in 
the section adjoinging the office. Twentieth-century American 
prints, for the most part, after matting and labeling, were added, 
filling three more solander cases. Thirty-four of these cases, devoted 
to fine prints, have now been labeled and filled. The cases stand like 
books on a library shelf, and their contents are readily available for 
examination, while receiving much better protection than in flat 
sliding drawers. 

In the section of photography no important changes were made. 
Most of the available time of the associate curator was consumed in 
personally unpacking and redistributing the 20 boxes of specimens 
returned from storage, in processing new material, and in arranging 
and preparing a special exhibit each month during the year. 

A list of the special monthly exhibitions held during the year is as 
follows: 

GRAPHIC ARTS 
July-September: Drypoints by Louis C. Rosenberg, Diana Thorne, and Walter 
Tittle, selected from the permanent collection of the division of graphic arts. 
September: 31 prints and drawings by members of the National Association of 
Women Artists. 
October: 29 prints by Albert Sterner, Pittsfield, Mass. 
November: 40 block prints by William 8. Rice, Oakland, Calif. 
December: 35 drypoints in color by Mortimer Borne, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
January: 96 original Christmas cards executed by artists, lent by R. P. Tolman. 
February: 33 aguatints by Kathleen Macy Finn, Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
March: 34 etchings, drypoints, and aquatints by Gene Kloss, Taos, N. Mex. 
April: 52 etchings and lithographs by Lester Hornby, Rockport, Mass. 
May: 35 etchings and drawings by Isabel Bishop, New York City. 
May: 35 etchings and aquatints by L. O. Griffith, Nashville, Ind. 


June: 32 prints by contemporary American artists, selected from the permanent 
collection of the division of graphic arts. 


DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIES 71 


PHOTOGRAPHY 


July: 41 prints by Capt. Fred Willcox, Arlington, Va. 

August: 106 prints by the Photographic Society of America. 
September: 40 prints by John H. Vondell, Amherst, Mass. 
October: 40 prints by Jerome H. Krimke, South Orange, N. J. 
November: 92 prints by the National Photographic Society. 
December: 10 prints by Eugene Kibbe, Elsah, Il. 

January: 87 prints by the Metropolitan Camera Club. 
February: 77 prints by the American Photographic Publishing Co. 
March: 30 prints by P. H. Oelman, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

April: 50 prints by James H. Thomas, Oneonta, N. Y. 

May: 40 prints by Charles B. Phelps, Grosse Point, Mich. 
June: 50 prints by G. G. Granger, Lansing, Mich. 


INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 


Study and research are the daily requirements of the small staff of 
this department in order to keep abreast of the progress and develop- 
ments in the wide field of technology and the applied sciences. Added 
to this is the time devoted daily in investigation and research to satisfy 
the information requested by Federal agencies and private investi- 
gators. These two major calls on the staff’s time leave little to devote 
to other major research projects. Nevertheless, during the year the 
curator and assistant curator, section of textiles, continued their 
studies of textile-machinery developments and inventions and textile- 
handcraft techniques; the associate curator of woods and wood tech- 
nology found time to study in detail the taxonomy and wood anatomy 
of certain woods to aid in their correct classification; and the head 
curator of the department pursued his long-range studies on details of 
American land-transportation developments. 

The materials maintained in this department and available to all 
accredited investigators are grouped in five classes: Exhibited collec- 
tions; collections arranged in study series; divisional and sectional 
technical libraries; subject files of published and original data; and 
subject files of photographs, drawings, and miscellaneous illustrations. 
During the year outside investigators, both governmental and private, 
used these materials, assisted by staff members. Professional 
weavers, textile designers, and lay students studied in detail the col- 
lections of coverlets, quilts, shawls, hooked rugs, and tapestries. 
Two groups of document inspectors of the Federal Bureau of Investi- 
gation received special instructions by the assistant curator in the 
identification of the various types of printing. Exhibited and study 
collections in graphic arts were used in conducting this course of 
instruction. Again, the data and photographic files were consulted 
day after day for information on a variety of subjects such as ships, 
woods, Colonial household implements, stipple engraving, auto- 
mobiles, aircraft, history of the public-health movement, and the 
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directed to the department by Government personnel and by private 
individuals covered an equally wide range of subjects. Included 
were questions on cleaning and preserving gold braid, the manufacture 
of fish oils, definitions used in leather terminology, devices for testing 
cloth, refining of beeswax, formulas for casein paints, and luminous 
elements for electric lamps. In addition to these classes of assistance 
given by the department, the staff made many identifications of 
materials brought to the Museum or sent in by common carrier. 
These included textiles, woods, timepieces, surveying and navigation 
instruments, fabricated metal products, and lithographs and prints. 


DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS 


Materials distributed from the department consisting of specimens, 
photographs, drawings, and prints exceeded 3,000 items. Some 
2,700 of these were contained in traveling exhibits on the graphic arts, 
which were exhibited a total of 26 months in 14 States. For use in 
war veteran educational and rehabilitation work at Walter Reed 
Hospital there was prepared and donated a cotton chart with a series 
of 18 mounted specimens and 16 illustrated booklets outlining cotton 
production and manufacture. During the year, too, 332 copies of 
drawings contained in the Historic American Merchant Marine 
Survey maintained by the division of engineering were furnished to 
private purchasers. This brings the total volume of copies distributed 
since 1938 to 4,311. Of the specimens loaned or donated for educa- 
tional purposes, mention may be made of an original Philippine plow 
to the War Department Quartermaster Corps, and of a series of 
American war posters to the U.S. 8. R. Society of Cultural Relations 
and Foreign Countries. 


NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER DEPARTMENT 


Banga @erimgys 125.222 eel Pie ae al ue ec cy ge ae 17, 539 
Lg pg SiS > a Ne ca aco yy clbe TD hop inv laganarlapsewns gpha NP, ty (2 16, 986 
Woods and wood'technology'_-220! Gi0ts ) OMA wT Saas So 13, 485 
Chemical! industriesie iG “ool gi baer epee ee 23, 308 
Agrietltural industries e+. 424. beta eins aes 2, 267 
Medicine and epublic Jnealthe: ta se 5 a ee 21, 423 


Graphic arts, include, photesnaply = a = es ae 47, 616 


DIVISION OF HISTORY 


(THEODORE T. BELots, Curator) 


In the division of history the past year was marked by a number of 
important acquisitions to the collections and by several noteworthy 
reinstallations of materials in the exhibition halls. 


ACCESSIONS 


The total number of accessions received was 62, aggregating 
1,749 specimens. 

The most outstanding addition to the art collection was a series of 
48 bronze statuettes of notable contemporary American public men, 
made from life by the distinguished sculptor Max Kalish. About 
one-third life size, the statuettes show the subjects full length, with 
unusual detail of appearance and mannerisms. ‘They include many 
of the high-ranking officials of the Government during the war year 
1944—-President Roosevelt and his entire cabinet, most of the war- 
agency administrators, and some of the leading generals and admirals— 
labor leaders, industrialists conspicuous in war production, and other 
private citizens regarded as public men. The series is entitled ‘‘The 
Living Hall of Washington, 1944”’ and was presented to the Museum 
by W. M. Kiplinger. 

The costume collection was increased by a number of valuable ad- 
ditions, although many gifts had to be refused because of the limited 
exhibition and storage space. Ex-President Herbert Hoover pre- 
sented the Museum with two gowns that were worn by Mrs. Hoover 
in the White House. One is a yellow taffeta dress worn when the 
President entertained the King of Siam in 1931, and the other is a 
silver-thread gown that Mrs. Hoover particularly liked. 

For the same collection Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt presented two 
dresses—the Fourth Inaugural gown of mauve crepe, which she wore 
at the formal reception at the White House on the afternoon of Jan- 
uary 20, 1945, and the street dress of EKleanor-blue velvet that she 
wore at the First Roosevelt Inaugural ceremony in 1933. The 
Museum now has, as gifts from Mrs. Roosevelt, gowns worn by her 
at three of the Roosevelt inaugural receptions. 

Mrs. Hamilton Fish, Jr., presented a cape worn by the Honorable 
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, 1869-1877, 
in his college days in New York City in the early nineteenth century. 
It is a good example of a type of garment popular as a part of the 
men’s costume of the period. 


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A costume doll of unusual historical interest was received from 
General Eisenhower. This doll was given to him by the children of 
Normandy in gratitude for their liberation from the Nazis. It was 
placed on exhibit by the division of ethnology in the Natural History 
Building. An infant girl doll of about 1881, dressed in the style of 
that year, was presented by Miss Elsie Witchen. 

A very handsome Peruvian diplomatic uniform of the present day 
was presented by Mrs. Emerson Howe. It includes coat, breeches, 
overcoat, shoes, and stockings and is accompanied by two decorations, 
the Order of the Sun of Peru and the Order of the Crown of the Congo. 
Mrs. Howe also presented a diplomatic sword of the same period as 
the suit and a number of handsome French military swords of the 
early part of the nineteenth century. 

Accessions to the military collections included an office desk and 
chair used in the European war zone by General Dwight D. Eisen- 
hower in 1944. These were deposited by General Eisenhower. A 
captured German parachute was lent by Miss Elizabeth O. Cullen. 
Various other pieces of German and Japanese military paraphernalia 
were lent by the War Department. 

Accessions to the naval collections included a series of 12 United 
States ensigns and one pennant flown by United States naval vessels 
during engagements with the enemy in the South Pacific Ocean and 
the Mediterranean Sea in 1942 and 1943, transferred from the Bureau 
of Ships, Navy Department. These have been placed on exhibition 
in the west hall of the Arts and Industries Building. 

A number of interesting additions were made to the numismatic 
collection. ‘These included 30 specimens of the various types of 
United States coins struck at the Denver, Philadelphia, and San 
Francisco mints during the calendar year 1944. This series included 
coins of the following denominations: Cent, nickel, dime, quarter, 
and half-dollar. These coins were transferred to the Museum from 
the Treasury Department. From the American Numismatic Asso- 
ciation was received as a loan a Canadian 5-cent piece struck in 1943 
bearing the following legend in Morse code: ‘‘We win when we work 
willingly.””’ A silver token or medalet commemorating the airplane 
flight of Amelia Earhart across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928 was pre- 
sented by the Whitehead & Hoag Co. A silver badge of the Fifth 
Universal Postal Congress, held in Washington, D. C., in 1897, and 
a bronze badge of the Admiral Dewey celebration held in Washington 
in 1899 were presented by the estate of the Honorable Joseph L. 
Bristow. 

The philatelic collection was increased by the addition of 1,306 
specimens during the year. ‘These as usual included new issues of the 
United States transferred from the Post Office Department, foreign 
stamps from the Universal Postal Union, stamps sent direct from the 


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country of issue, and gifts from individuals. An item of special 
interest, a 2-cent, black (trial color), Navy Department stamp imper- 
forate, was presented by Dr. Serge A. Korff, and a souvenir sheet of 
Chinese semipostal stamps, issued in 1944 for war-refugee relief, was 
a gift of H. Charles Chu and T. U. Chu. Sgt. E. B. Nasif presented a 
cover of the ‘‘ Victory” set mailed the first day of issue, January 19, 
1945, at Tacloban, Leyte, Philippine Islands, and a cover postmarked 
April 15, 1945, the date of the official reopening of the Manila Post 
i INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS 

An important installation task accomplished during the year was 
the complete rearrangement of the military materials in the north hall. 
Uniforms in the wall cases were arranged in chronological order, and 
above them was hung a series of colored drawings of historic United 
States flags. Special attention was given also to the memorial col- 
lections of china, silverware, furniture, and costumes owned during 
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by noted American soldiers, 
diplomats, and statesmen. Many of these articles were owned by 
General and Mrs. Washington at Mount Vernon. The collection now 
occupies the entire west hall, except for the space devoted to me- 
mentos of the scientific careers of the Secretaries of the Smithsonian 
Institution. 

The new series of bronze statuettes entitled ‘‘The Living Hall of 
Washington, 1944,” already described, was installed in the costume 
hall. The crowded condition of this hall, as well as of others con- 
taining the historical exhibits, is becoming increasingly aggravated, 
until only a few of the exhibits can now be shown to advantage. 
There is little chance of this situation improving, however, until a 
new and spacious building is provided. 

It is well now to record a little of the history of the evacuation of our 
valuable historical specimens that the war necessitated, although 
fortunately Washington suffered no enemy air attacks. The first 
plans for the evacuation of this material were made in January 1942. 
From March to December 1942, 14 boxes of valuable and irreplaceable 
historical materials were evacuated from the Museum by the staff of 
the division. Ten boxes were packed by James R. Sirlouis, scientific 
aide, and 4 by Wilbur Chapman, scientific aide. The objects chosen 
for evacuation included the Washington sword, uniform, and camp 
chest and many pieces of china, glass, and silverware owned by Gen- 
eral and Mrs. Washington during the latter part of the eighteenth 
century; mementos of the careers of Presidents Thomas Jefferson, 
Andrew Jackson, and Ulysses 8S. Grant; a large series of jeweled and 
gold mounted military and naval presentation swords; the original 
Star Spangled Banner in a single box; and various types of rifles, 
pistols, and revolvers of technical interest. Al! this material was 


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returned to the Museum in November 1944 during the serious illness 
of Mr. Sirlouis. The objects were unpacked and temporarily placed 
in the exhibition cases. Later they were reinstalled by Mr. Sirlouis 
in the cases that they originally occupied. The unpacking and rein- 
stallation of the original Star Spangled Banner constituted a special 
task which was accomplished by 2 carpenters with the assistance of a 
large crew of laborers. In all, the packing, the unpacking, and the 
reinstallation of these valuable and fragile materials constituted a 
large undertaking, and much credit must be given Mr. Sirlouis for the 
successful performance of this important and responsible task. 

The problem of storage continues to be a serious one in the division. 
During the year storage materials were removed from the floor space 
under the east and west galleries of the northeast court to various 
storage rooms on the second and third floors of the north and west 
towers. This, however, was only a temporary expedient and did not 
permit proper classification of the materials. If these collections are 
to be properly preserved from deterioration and made available for 
study and use, it will be necessary to classify and rearrange them, but 
this cannot be done until adequate mechanical assistance, laboratory 
facilities, and space are available. 

In the philatelic section all the exhibition series of stamps were 
rearranged while adding new issues—this under the direction of Mrs. 
Catherine Manning, philatelist, assisted by Wilbur Chapman, scien- 
tific aide. Practically all the recent issues are now on exhibit in the 
regular series, and stamps from enemy and enemy-controlled countries 
are mounted and displayed at intervals in the frames outside the 
cabinets. Cataloging of current specimens is practically up to date, 
and some further work was done on the large task of cataloging the 
Michel collection of postal stationery. 


INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH 


The various members of the staff have each performed important 
tasks in connection with historical research and investigation in the 
fields represented by the division. ‘The curator has added a valuable 
series of notes concerning coins, medals, and flags to those already 
assembled by him in recent years. ‘The associate curator has made 
similar progress in connection with the history of arms and uniforms. 
Miss Margaret Brown, scientific aide, has assembled a series of notes 
pertaining to the White House dresses in the care of the division, con- 
stituting an admirable basis for a bulletin on this subject. 

Members of the staff on various occasions assisted the War, Navy, 
Treasury, and Post Office Departments in connection with materials 
of military, naval, numismatic, or philatelic interest. Many data of 
this character were furnished also to individuals upon request in 
correspondence not accompanied by specimens. Twenty-seven lots 


DIVISION OF HISTORY v(7/ 


of material were submitted by outside agencies and individuals for 


identification. 
EDUCATIONAL WORK 


A special educational exhibit in the fields of stamps and coins was 
furnished the Washington Cathedral for its spring festival, May 10-12. 
The philatelic portion consisted of 4 frames of stamps selected to 
illustrate the topic ‘‘Religion on Stamps.” The numismatic part 
consisted of 50 photographic prints of the obverses and reverses of 162 
coins arranged in chronological sequence, labeled and mounted in 4 
standard museum frames. In the first frame were installed 2 series of 
prints, 1 illustrating the first use of Christian symbols in numismatics 
during the reign of Constantine the Great, 307-337, and the other 
showing use of such symbols on Roman coins during the period from 
A. D. 337 to 460, during which the use of such designs became an 
established custom. These designs included the following subjects: 
The Greek cross in the field; the Latin cross in the field; the Chi-Rho 
on the helmet; the Iota-Chi in the field; the Chi-Rho in the field; 
the Chi-Rho above the labarum; the Chi-Rho on the labarum; the 
Chi-Rho as a type; and the Latin cross as a type. The second frame 
also contained two series of prints, one illustrating the use of religious 
designs on Roman coins during the period from A. D. 460 to 500, the 
other the use of religious designs on the coins of the Byzantine Empire 
during the period from A. D. 500 to 600. The third and fourth 
frames bore a, series of prints illustrating the use of religious designs 
on modern coins from 1500 to 1800. 

This exhibit proved of much interest to students of history of the 
Christian religion and to philatelists and numismatists as well. The 
first use of Christian symbols on Roman coins during the reign of 
Constantine the Great marked the turning away from paganism of 
the Roman Empire and its conversion to Christianity. It is difficult 
for anyone to view the photographs of these early Christian symbols 
on Roman coins without being moved to devote some attention to 
the history of Christianity and the Roman Empire. Thus these 
prints have both historical and inspirational value. 


NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER DIVISION 


pameeends . OREROOES | SOULE EL) bate a Oo OR Ge, 1, 641 
“SHS (laa he 2 So ape ap Seat Spcedty Rian BEER NRE trol IE Seer at yeh inde 16, 270 
ae es A ee Sie ech Sect hn ithe se) seit gl 27,013 
Newey ff. VE ao Y aro - 1 DAGTAI Vaahavall it tga) 2, 308 
ING isms tier oD Ok ea eT NOW? ey (aU 50, 935 
Lela eye Baal as ri lg MN leg ta, tpt baci etal 415, 808 
UC UCTS bereieirs re ae Catia huey Qed Sy beigas,) DEIR hyn yet 16, 905 

Poralloccaeny eek tee ipin 531, 180 


679046—46—-6 


ACCESSIONS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1944-45 


(Except when otherwise indicated, the specimens were presented or were transferred, 
an accordance with law, by Bureaus of the Government) 


Axssortt, Lt. (jg) R. Tucker, F. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 36 fresh-water 
mollusks from the Philippines and 
China (169881, exchange). 

AgppoTt Funp, W. L., Smithsonian In- 
stitution: 117 bird skins and 1 set of 
eggs, 3 muskoxen, 5 Arctic hares, 1 Arc- 
tic fox, and 3 walruses (167361); 21 
skins and 2 skeletons of birds from 
Colombia, collected by Carlos Leh- 

. Mann (169088). 

Aperc, Dr. Ewert, Beltsville, Md.: 2 
plants (170347). 

AcKERLY, Ernest, Atlanta, Ga.: Arti- 
ficially "deformed skull of an Indian 
child from Lookout Mountain Cave, 
Chattanooga, Tenn. (169542); 2 am- 
phipods (169724). 

Appy, C. E., Newburyport, Mass.: 10 
shrimps, 20 amphipods (1673381). 
ADELAIDE, UNIVERSITY oF, Adelaide, 
South Australia: (Through Nancy a oh 
Burbidge) 21 grasses from Australia 

(170305), exchange). 

AGRICULTURE, U. 8S. DePaRTMENT OF: 
(Through Dr. F. A. McClure) 3 cul- 
tivated plants from Canal Zone 
(170229). 

Bureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine: 495 plants collected in 
Texas by Ivan Shiller (162514); 32 
isopods, 6 amphipods, 1 crab larva, 
1 crab, 7 mollusks, 1 slu from 
Venezuela, 1 frog (167964, 168130, 
168427, 168685, “169856) ; 1 blind- 
snake and 1 frog from Martinique 
(1681380); 2 mollusks from Free- 
port, Tex. (168768); 72,000 mis- 
cellaneous insects retained by the 
various specialists out of material 
received by them for identification 
during the fiscal year 1944-45 
(170523). (See also under C. B. 
Manifold.) 

Forest Service: (Through W. A. Day- 
ton) 616 plants, mostly of timber 
trees, collected in Ecuador (167955, 
168406, 169018); 7 woody plants 
from Texas (168809); a grass from 
Louisiana (169434); 1 plant from 
North Carolina (170041). 

Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and 
Agricultural Engineering: 1) 360 
plants, mostly from _ Brazil, ‘col- 
lected by Dr. J. T. Baldwin, Jr., 


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and 12 wood specimens (167807) $ 
(through Dr. Rogers McVaugh) 
1 plant from Texas (169003); 30 
photographs of herbarium speci- 
mens (169183); 12 plants from 
Costa Rica (169540); 1 plant from 
Alabama (169617). 

ALBERTO, Brother TomAs, Salamina- 
Caldas. Colombia: 11 ferns from 
Colombia (168930). 

Aupricu, Dr. Joun W., Washington, 
D. C.: 1 robin (170301). (See also 
under U. 8. Department of the In- 
terior, Fish and Wildlife Service.) 

Atimn PROPERTY CUSTODIAN, Wash- 
ington, D. C.: Broken pieces of ori- 
ental carved objects in jade, carnel- 
ian, crystal, agate, etc., for ‘mineral- 
ogical study, seized from the firm of 
Yamanaka & Co., New York City 
(166936). 

Auuanson, Sgt. Henry E., Jr., and 
Corp. James C. Kemp, A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 132 butterflies and 
a few other insects from New Guinea 
(169517). 

AuuaRD, H. A., Arlington, Va.: 15 
plants from Virginia (168810) ; 175 
pants from vicinity of Washington, 

C. (169472). 

agai “Prof. W. C. , Chicago, Ill.: 30+ 
amphipods (168556). 

ALVARENGA, Dr. Lronrpas, San Salva- 
dor, El Salvador: 17 insects from El 
Salvador (167033). 

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- 
VANCEMENT OF ScIENCE, Washington, 
D. C.: (Through Dr. F. L. Campbell) 
2 photographs of Capt. Jacob Chait- 
kin, U. 8. Army Air Forces (166746). 

AMERICAN Museum or Narturau His- 
Tory, New York, N. Y.: 11 minerals 
(167987, exchange); (through Dr. 
John T. Zimmer) 1 bird (169364, 
exchange). 

American Numismatic ASSOCIATION, 
New York, N. Y.: (Through Robert 
H. Lloyd) 6 coins of Canada, Ceylon, 
and Chile and a Canadian token 
(167976, loan). 

AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIA- 
TION, INc., Washington, D. C.: A 
collection of furniture, fixtures, drug 
bottles and jars, working implements, 
books, and other equipment of the 


ACCESSIONS 


Cathedral Pharmacy, Freiburg, Ger- 
many, period of 1750, and similar 


79 


new species, from State of Querétaro, 
Mexico (169363). 


specimens from other drug stores of | Arizona, University or, Tucson, Ariz.: 


the same period and vicinity (170211, 
deposit). 

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLISHING 
Co., Boston, Mass.: 77 pictorical 
photographs, originals of reproduc- 
tions in 1945 American Annual of 
Photography (169783, loan). 

AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS, Indianapolis, 
Ind.: (Through Mrs. E. May Hahn) 
Gold-star flag flown on the ships that 
conveyed contingents of Gold Star 
Mothers from the United States to 
France and return during the period 
1930-1933 (167801). 

Ammon, G. A., Lansing, Mich.: 4 plants 
from the Aleutian Islands (168362). 
Anprrson, Dr. J. P., Ames, Iowa: 110 
grasses from Alaska and Yukon 

(169607). 

ANDERSON, J. W., Spokane, Wash.: 1 
calcite geode from Orderville, Kane 
County, Utah (169001). 

ANDERSON, Lyte. (See under U. S. 
Department of the Interior, Fish and 
Wildlife Service.) 

Anonymovs: Egyptian figurine of Osiris 
in green faience (168223) ; 8 bird skele- 
tons and miscellaneous bones and 2 
nests (169792); 8 specimens of Jap- 
anese currency printed for circulation 
in the Philippine Islands during 
World War II (169991); 28 bird skins 
(170222) ; 8 sets of old lens stops, used 
over a period of years from 1840 to 
1880 up to the time of the introduc- 
tion of adjustable diaphragms in lens 
tubes and shutters (170404); 1 pic- 
torial photograph by Thomas W. 
Smillie, his initials in red in lower 
right corner (170531); 1 colored por- 
trait of Secretary Samuel P. Langley 
(170533). 

AntuHony, Lucry E., Swarthmore, Pa.: 
Gavel owned by Susan B. Anthony 
(166408). 

Apoutinar Ancgt, Brother, Cartegena, 
Colombia: 96 plants from Colombia 
(169803). 

ApoLInaR-Marfa, Rev. Brother, Bo- 
gota, Colombia: 9 ferns from Colom- 
bia (169851). 

Appin, E. R., Austin, Tex.: 55 slides 
of diagnostic Cretaceous and Tertiary 
Foraminifera from Florida, including 
many primary types (169156). 

ARCHBOLD BIoLoGIcAL Station, Lake 
Placid, Fla.: (Through L. J. Brass) 
24 grasses from Florida (170461). 

ArcHINO, Pvt. Samuret P., Camp Atter- 
bury, Ind.: 26 land and fresh-water 
mollusks from Camp _ Atterbury 
(168639). 

ARELLANO, A. R. V., Mexico, D. F.: 
24 land shells, including types of 3 


(Through Prof. Walter 8. Phillips) 21 
ferns from Arizona (170232, ex- 
change). 

ARNOLD, Gen. H. H., Washington, D. C. 
An Arab costume presented by Abdul 
Aziz ’bn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, 
to General Arnold, consisting of an 
embroidered headdress and coil, a 
robe embroidered in gold thread, and 
an inscribed sword embellished with 
overlay of gold and silver together 
with a corded sword belt (168988, 
loan). 

Auagustson, Lt. G. F., Fort Sam Hous- 
ton, Tex.: 2 fleas, type and allotype 
(167867); 1 slide with holotype male 
flea (168928). 

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT, Council for 
Scientific and Industrial Research, 
Canberra City, Australia: 96 grasses 
from Australia and Papua (167783, 
exchange). 

AYDELOTTE, Dr. W. D., Fairburn, Ga.: 
3 barnacles (170074). 

Bascock, Prof. E. B., Berkeley, Calif.: 
110 plants (169241) ; 299 photographs 
and 1 fragment of plants (169421). 

BauHovec, FRED, Baranof, Alaska: 18 
mollusks, 2 marine invertebrates, 1 
starfish, 1 ascidian, and 6 hermit crabs 
from Alaska (167362, 169236). 

BaitEY Horrorium, Ithaca, N. Y.: 1 
plant from Mexico (156462). 

Basxov, Dr. A., Dayton, Ohio: 55 flies 
collected in Tamnak Valley, Attu 
Island, March 12, 1945, on the snow 
at a temperature of 0° C.-1° C., and 
2 vials of plankton (170504). 

BaxsrR, JAMES S. (See under Foreign 
Eeonomic Administration.) 

Baxsur, Sgt. Raymonp L., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 531 mollusks from 
the Netherlands Hast Indies (170486). 

Baupwin, Dr. J. T., Jr. (See under 
Blandy Experimental Farm.) 

Bau, Witut1am Howarp, Brownsville, 
Tex.: 101 Crustacea and 21 milli- 
pedes (168072); 167 marine inverte- 
brates, 3 echinoderms, and 10 insects 
(169525); 40+ invertebrates from 
Texas (170208). 

BaneHam, Dr. Raupo YV. (See under 
Dr. Wilbur M. Tidd.) 

Banks, Prof. NaTHAn. 
Harvard University, Museum of 
Comparative Zoology.) 

Bann, HELEN, Cincinnati, Ohio: 2 
original engraved wood-blocks by 
James Bann, one a self portrait and 
the other a portrait of the donor 
(168170). 

BARKER, R. Wricut, Houston, Tex.: 
(Through Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan) 
Foraminiferal material from approxi- 


(See under 


80 


mately 20 yards above the Atlantic 
Coast Line Railroad bridge, on west 
bank of Flint River, Bainbridge, Ga. 
(170153): 15 slides of Lower Creta- 
ceous larger Foraminifera from Texas 
(170544). 

BaRKueEyY, Dr. Frep A. (See under 
University of Texas.) 

BARLow,. Dry OC: 4H. beontan) Noa Je 
266 fresh-water and marine shells 
from Egypt (168991); 78 land and 
fresh-water mollusks and 7 fossils (6 
mollusks, 1 fish) (169951); 1 mollusk 
from the Red Sea (170137). 

BarRn&s, VENTURA, Jr., Mayagiiez, 
Puerto Rico: 18 birds from Mona 
Island, Puerto Rico, including 1 type 
(168744). 

BARNETT, Lt. HERBERT C., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif., 1 tick from Tac- 


loban, Leyte, Philippine Islands 
(168991). 
Barrett, Mrs. W. E., Greenview, 


Calif.: 10 amphipods (167871). 

BarRTLeTT, Mrs. GEorGIA SLATER, and 
LypiA R. StatEerR, Webster, Mass.: 
Original indenture of apprenticeship 
of Samuel Slater to Jedediah Strutt, 
dated January 8, 17838 (169666, de- 
posit). 

Bartuey, Fuoyp, Circleville, Ohio: 37 
plants, mostly from Ohio (169029) 


Bartos, Lt. WiuiiaM A., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 40 shrimps, 25 
crabs, 1 worm, brittle-star, octopus, 
mollusk, and fish, all from Saipan 
(168008); approximately 42 marine 
invertebrates, 4 brittle-stars, and 3 
fishes from Saipan and Eniwetok 
(168584); 160 marine invertebrates, 
13 echinoderms, 11 mollusks, and 12 
fishes from South Pacific Islands 
(169259). 


Bartscu, Dr. Paut, Washington, D. C.: 
1 shrew collected in Fairfax County, 
Va.; by donor (168806); 1 golden- 
crowned kinglet (168852); 1 meadow 
mouse from Fairfax County, Va. 
(1696138); partial skeleton of blue 
goose (169730); 1 chimney swift 
(170161) ; 1 specimen of carpenter bee, 
collected at “Lebanon,” Fairfax Coun. 
ty, Va., in April 1945 (170238) ; 
seaside sparrows (170453). 


Baum Co., W. A., New. York, N. Y.: 
1 Baumanometer (No. 444634) for 
registering blood pressure (168968). 


Bayer, Corp. Freprrick M., Muskogee, 
Okla.: 35 fishes and 1 annelid from 
the vicinity of Sarasota, Fla. (167861) ; 
3 brittle-stars from Palm Beach Inlet, 
Fla. (168298) ; 7 echinoderms (169906) ; 
4 crinoids (170157) ; (with Corp. Gil- 
bert Neurohr) 85 echinoderms from 
the reef at Sirido Village, Biak, 
Schouten Islands, collected in Febru- 
ary 1945, 29 brittle-stars, 22 star- 


REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 


1945 


fishes, 28 crinoids, 6 sea-urchins, and 
25 mosses (170509). 

Brats, Rosert V., A. P. O., San Fran- 
cisco, Calif.: 215 mollusks and 26 
corals, chiefly from New Guinea 
(168473). 

Bramer, Prof. R. H., Lawrence, Kans.: 

226 bugs (169859). 

Beatty, Harry A., Christiansted, St. 
Croix, Virgin Islands: Small collec- 
tion of insects from Virgin Islands 
~.(151600); 6 pairs of deer antlers 
~ (168352) ; approximately 167 crus- 
+ taceans, iS bats, 1 brittle-star, and 
seops! fishes. (168557). 

BEcKLEY, W. O., F. P. O., San Francisco, 
Calif.: 6 fossils and 2 minerals 
(167968). 

BrEeBE, Dr. Wiut1AM, New York, N. Y.: 
1 owl jaw (140039) ; 8 beetles (167875) ; 


21 beetles, representing 6 species 
(168109). 
Brees, J. D., Orlando, Fla.: (Through 


Dr. F. L. Lewton) 3 specimens of 
“Australian pine’? wood, grown in 
Orange County, Fla. (170162). 

Brexasco, Davin, F. P. O., San Fran- 
cisco, Calif., 1 mollusk and 1 lot of 
Foraminifera (169694). 

BELKIN, Capt. J. N., A. P. O., San Fran- 
cisco, Calif.: 107 specimens (70 adults 
and 37 slides) of mosquito material 
from Guadalcanal (170298). 

BELL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION. (See 
under War Department.) 

Bennett, Maj. Harry J., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 240 land and 
fresh-water mollusks from the Philip- 
pine Islands (170407). 

Bennett, Lt. Logan J., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.; 45 birds skins from 
Nissan Island (169154) ; 95 birds from 
Admiralty Islands (170422). 

Bere, Lt. jg.) Cuirrorp O., F. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 235-+ flies, of 
which 135 are ’ Stratiomyidae, includ- 
ing a new species, 100 or more fiies of 
other families (169769) ; 77 flies collec- 
ted on Guadalcanal (170042). 

BERNER, Maj. Lewis, A. P. O., Miami, 


Fla.: 1 bird spider from Tarkwa 
(168886). 
BERNHARDT, ALTON, North Liberty, 


ind: ol turkey bone from the Pleisto- 
cene of Indiana (170439). 

Berquist, H. R., Washington, D. C.: 
88 land shells from the Dominican 
Republican (168800). 

Berry, Dr. E. W. (See under Johns 
Hopkins University.) 

Bresy,, ¢lut..(jz.) Ba ee ee ee 


Francisco, Calif.: 70 mollusks and 
11 insects from the Philippines 
(170445). 


Bick, ‘Lt. Gz) Groree fi) ar eee 
San Francisco, Calif.: A small collec- 
tion of insects, spiders, and lizards 
and 1 shrimp (169265). 


ACCESSIONS 


BINGER, ELEANOR R., Upper Marlboro, 
Md., and Anita JAMES, Washington, 
D. C.: Sharks’ teeth (about 350) col- 
lected between Chesapeake and North 
Beach (Stennetto’s Wharf), Md. 
(168075). 

BisHop, Isapet, New York, N. Y.: 13 
drawings and 22 etchings for special 
exhibition, April 9 through May 6, 
1945 (170055, loan.) 

Buacxk, RaterieH A., Mont Albert, Vic- 


toria: 55 grasses from Australia 
(168904); 14 grasses from Australia 
(169868). 


BuakeE, 8. T., Brisbane, Queensland: 
2 plants (168680, exchange). 

BianpyY EXPERIMENTAL Farm, Boyce, 
Va.: (Through Dr. J. T. Baldwin, Jr.) 
35 plants (170472). 

BoEHLKE, JAMES, Buffalo, Minn.: 2 
salamanders from Buffalo, Minn. 
(168769); 2 fishes (169918); 2 am- 
phipods (170356). 

Hocun, it. “Comdr. Hui. A” Po "0., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 3 lizards, 8 
snakes, and 1 fish from Manus Island, 
Admiralty Islands (170465). 

Bowart, Lt. Grorce E., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calit.: A small collection 
of miscellaneous insects taken on 
Guadalcanal (169944); a collection of 
miscellaneous insects collected at 
Siota, Little Florida Island, in the 
South Solomons (170378). 

Bours, THomas. (See under U.S. De- 
partment of the Interior, National 
Park service.) 

Born, KenpALt E. (See under Ten- 
nessee Department of Conservation.) 

Borne, Mortimer, Brooklyn, N. Y.: 
35 drypoints in color for special ex- 
hibition from November 20 through 
December 17, 1944 (168953, loan); 1 
color print, ‘‘The Road,” by the 
donor, printed from 3 _ drypoint 
plates (yellow, red, and blue inks 
used) (170054). 


Bouuter, Mrs. Harriet K., Washing- 
ton, D. C.: A negative and a trans- 
parency of the Adams Memorial 
statue (sometimes called ‘‘Grief’’) 
by August Saint-Gaudens, in Rock 
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D. C. 
(167950). 


Bovurceois, ManriE E., Mixcoac, D. F.: 
60 land, fresh-water, and marine 
shells from Mexico (167891); 228 
mollusks from Mexico (1692638); 6 
subulinid mollusks from Huitzlahuaca 
Cave, Guerrero, Mexico, collected by 
Professor Sokoloff (170440). 

Bovurauin, Dr. FERNANDO, Buenos 
Aires, Argentina: 15 Lepidoptera 
from Argentina (168709, exchange). 

Bowman, Mrs. GrertrrupE L. (See 
under Hon. Herbert Hoover.) 


81 
BowMAN, KENNETH, Edmonton, Al- 
berta: 1 insect (paratype) (168804). 


Bowman, Mrs. Marta G., Seattle, 
Wash.: Stone lamp from old village 
site on Korovin Bay, Atka Island, 
Alaska, (168677). 

BraDLEy, Tom, Washington, D. C.: 1 
wood thrush and 1 flicker (170480). 
BrapDiey, W. W. (See under California 

Division of Mines.) 

BRAINARD, HeE.oiszs, Washington, D. 
C.: 2 daguerreotypes and 2 ambro- 
types (sphereotypes), the latter new 
to the collection (169340). 

BRAMAN, CursteR A., Old Chatham, 
N. Y.: A cane owned by President 
William McKinley (168579). 

Brass, L. J. (See under Archbold 
Biological Station.) 

BRASSEUR, CHARLES L., Orange, N. J.: 
1 portrait of James W. McDonough 
in color, McDonough process; 1 posi- 
tive transparency, albumen process; 
4 wet-plate stereoscopic negatives of 
1860 Polar Eclipse Expedition to 
Labrador, 2 wax paper negatives, Le 
Gray process, 1 carbon print made 
by donor from one of above nega- 
tives; 3 metallographs, made by 
donor, 1888-89, carbon prints on col- 
lodion; 1 Blanquart Evrard silver 
print (doubtful) (170365). 

Braun, Dr. ANNETTE F., Cincinnati, 
Ohio: 2 Lepidoptera (168976, ex- 
change). 

BREITGENGROSS, ALFRED T., Baltimore, 
Md.: 1 miniature working replica of 
the Stephen Daye press, the first 
printing press in the American 
Colonies, 1639, made in brass by the 
donor (170348). 

BRENNER, RutH M., San Francisco, 
Calif.: 984 samples of modern pic- 
torial prints on cotton, rayon, and 
silk fabrics, classified by inspirational 
sources, collected in the late 1930’s 
(168479). 

BRENNER PHoTO Co., Washington, D. 
C.: Eastman #4 Bulls-eye camera of 
1896 (168199); 1 #4 Panoram kodak 
of 1914 (168568) ; 1 Powers ‘‘Camera- 
graph,’’ motion-picture projector #6, 
manufactured in 1906 (168814); 1 
kodak developing box and tank of 
1907, 1 kodak oil-burning dark room 
lamp (169684); 1 #2 Bullet camera, 
model 1898, 1 Photo-See camera, 1 
Eastman film loading fixture, #4, 1 
kodak film tank, 3%-inch model 
L—B-2 (169909). 

BrigHAM YounG UNIVERSITY, Provo, 


Utah: (Through Prof. Bertram F. 
Harrison) 57 plants from Utah 
(168657). 


BrinkMaNn, A. H., Craigmyle, Alberta: 
6 plants from Canada (169169) ; 
grass from Oregon (169449, exchange). 


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Bristow, Estate of the Hon. JosrrxH 
L:, Fairfax, Va.: Silver badge of the 
Fifth Universal Postal Congress, 
Washington, 1897, and a bronze 
badge of the Dewey celebration, 
Washington, D. C., 1899 (169904). 

BRITISH GovERNMENT, British Council, 

London, England: “British Crafts 
Exhibition, ” consisting of handi- 
crafts such as needlework, books, 


furniture, silver, etc., temporary 
exhibition, May 8-28, 1945 (170686, 
loan). 


Royal Botanic Gardens: (Through Dr. 
Dr. E. J. Salisbury), 3 plants from 
Mexico (139796, exchange). 

Brooks, A. R. (See under Canadian 
Government, Department of Agricul- 
ture.) 

Brooks, St. Cyuarr, Falmouth, Va.: 
(Through Fred B. Inglis) Fragments 
of dugout canoe from Rappahannock 
River near Falmouth (168764). 

Brower, Dr. A. E., Augusta, Maine: 
35 insects, _ representing 5 species and 
including 3 topotypes of 2 species, 10 
paratypes of another, and 8 speci- 
mens from the type lot of a third 
(170111, exchange). 

Brown, Dr. Hersert H., Port-of- 
Spain, Trinidad, B. W. I.: A collec- 


tion of marine invertebrates, mol- 
lusks, echinoderms, and fishes 
(169095). 

Brown, Husrertr H., Toronto, On- 


tario: 1 fern from Ontario (170268). 
Brown, Lt. K. §., Arlington, Va.: 
Japanese rubber hood, gloves, trous- 
ers and shoes, captured on Tarawa 
(168350). 
Brown, RicHarRD A., College Park, 
DA specimen of ‘anorthosite from 
the “EHills of Laramie,’’ 18 miles 
north of Laramie, Wyo. (168934). 


Brown, W. J. (See under Canadian 
Government, Department of Agri- 
culture.) 


Brown & Bice tow, St. Paul, Minn.: 
13 calendar covers printed by offset 
lithography and 1 calendar printed 
by rotary intaglio, with reproductions 
of etchings ‘by R. H. Palenske 
(167934). 

Brown Funp, E. J., Smithsonian In- 
stitution: 4 skins of Iceland birds 
of forms new to the collections 


(169323). 

Brunner, Pfe. Atpert R., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 1 beetle 
(169877). 

Bucuuouz, Prof. Joan T. (See under 


University of Illinois.) 

Bursier, Capt. Mitron H., Washing- 
ton, D. C. (See under War Depart- 
ment, Army Medical Museum.) 

Buuiocx, D. S., Angol, Chile: 34 
Lepidoptera from Chile (170045). 


REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 


1945 


Bunton, Pavut B., Atlanta, Ga.: 4 
cross sections of a quartz crystal, 
probably from Brazil (170292). 

Bursriper, Nancy T., Adelaide, South 
Australia: 14 eTasses from Australia 
(168670, exchange). (See also under 
University of Adelaide.) 

Burcu, Joun Q., Los Angeles, Calif.: 
Holotype of 4 species of marine shells 
from southern California and Mexico 
(170185). 

Buren, WiuuiaAmM F., Alexandria, La.: 
188 ‘ants, representing 52 species 
(169146, exchange). 

BURKE, Corp. James Paut, A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 115 Lepidoptera 
(168322) ; 94 butterflies from the 
Lunga District, Guadalcanal, Solo- 
mon Islands (169518) ; 100 Lepidop- 
tera from Guadalcanal (170525). 

Burton, R. E., F. P. O., San Francisco, 
Calif.: 28 plants from the South 
Pacific (168111); 40 plants (grasses 
and_ sedges) from South Pacific Is- 
lands (168789). 

Buss, Irven, A. P. O., San Francisco, 
Calif.: 1 swallow (169099) ; 

BuTLER UNIVERSITY, Indianapolis, Ind.: 
(Through Dr. igiah BM Potzger) 190 
grasses from Indiana (168545, 168712, 
exchange); 3 grasses from Indiana 
(169327 exchange). 

Butts, CHAUNCEY L., Fairfax, Va.: 
Specimen of gold ore from Inde- 
pendence mine, Talkeetna Valley, 
Alaska, and 3 specimens of obsidian 
from Amchitka Island, Alaska 
(168161). 

CaBALLERO y C., Dr. Epuarpo, Cha- 
pultepec, D. F.: Cotype of parasitic 
worm (168285). 

Caprera, Dr. Ancen L. (See under 
Museo de La Plata.) 

CaLHouN, JoHN B., Columbus, Ohio: 
2 bird skins (168693). 

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 
San Francisco, Calif.: (Through Dr. 
Wilbert M. Chapman) 4 paratypes 
of fishes, collected at Santa Isabel, 
Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil, Janu- 
ary 14, 1925, by Carl Ternetz (168959, 
exchange); (through Dr. Robert T. 
Orr) 1 brown pelican (169168, ex- 
change); 54 plants from California 
(169322, 169819, 170206, sas 
(through DE. ‘ban: Hertlein) 
brachiopods from California ease): 
746 plants, mostly from Mexico an 
western United States (169521, ex- 
change); 30 fresh-water fishes from 
South America (107273, exchange). 

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- 
CULTURE, Sacramento, Calif.: <A 
weedy plant from California (168499). 

CALIFORNIA Division OF FISH AND 
GamE, Terminal Island, Calif.: 
(Through the Scripps Institution of 


ACCESSIONS 83 
Oceanography) 1 bramble shark|CarpEer, Ropert, (See under Charles 
(169135). F. Jones.) 


CauIFoRNIA Division oF Mines, San 
Francisco, Calif.: (Through W. W. 
Bradley) 5 specimens of natrolite 
from Clear Creek, San Benito, Calif. 
(168389). 

CALIFORNIA, UNivERsITy oF, Berkeley, 
Calif.: 339 plants, mostly from 
California and Oregon (169230, 
exchange). 

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology:(Through 
Prof. Alden H. Miller) 8 birds, 
representing 5 races (170492, per- 
manent deposit). 

CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF (AT Los 
ANGELES), Los Angeles, Calif.: 
(Through Dr. Ralph H. Smith) 8 
amphipods (170033). 

CamMarGo, Dr. FELIsBERTO, (See under 
Instituto Agronémico do Norte.) 

CAMPBELL, Dan S., (See under Camp- 
bell Products.) 

CaMPBELL, Dr. F. L. (See under Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement 
of Science.) 

CAMPBELL PRopucts, Owensboro, Ky.: 
(Through Dan §S. Campbell) Study 
samples of fiberglas thread and 2 
types of fireproof fabrics of fiberglas 
and asbestos yarns, and a specimen 
illustrating the use of these in a side 
section of the Tail Wheel Boot for a 
P-47 Thunderbolt plane (168567). 

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT, Depariment of 
Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 
Ottawa, Canada: (Through Dr. H. 
H. J. Nesbitt) 3 mites on 1 paratype 
slide (169238) ; (through W. J. Brown) 
4 beetles, paratypes (169295, ex- 
change); (through A. R. Brooks) 3 
flies, including 2 paratypes (169729) ; 
(through A. R. Brooks) 8 flies, 
paratypes of 3 species (169814). 

CANFIELD Funp, Smithsonian Institu- 
tion: 1 beryl crystal from Pala, Calif, 
168160); 10 tantalite crystals from 
Cera, Parahiba, and Minas Gerais, 
Brazil (168882); 1 colorless spodu- 
mene crystal and 1 cut stone of 
spodumene (169181); a specimen of 
brazilianite from near Arrasuahy, 
Conselheira, Pena District, Minas 
Gerais, Brazil (170293). 

Cannon, Dr. J. N., Seldovia, Alaska: 
2 pelecypods, from Snug Harbor, 
Alaska, from Jurassic rocks; also a 
native moosehide handbag with 
beaded eagle emblem (170020). 

CAPRILES, JENARO Monpanapo. (See 
under Federal Security Agency, U. 
S. Public Health Service, San Juan, 
Puerto Rico.) 

Carpenas, Dr. Martin, Cochabamba, 
Bolivia: 110 mollusks from Lake 
Poopo, Bolivia (167809); 109 plants 
from Bolivia (168095) ; 27 plants from 
Bolivia (169123). 


CaRNEGIE Musrum, (See under Na- 
tional Geographic Society.) 

CARPENTER, Mrs. J. S., New York, 
N. Y.: U. 8. Naval officer’s uniforms 
of the period about 1935 (169728). 

Carpenter, Maj. Stantey J., Fort Mc- 
Pherson, Ga.: 187 adult mosquitoes, 
representing 43 species, collected in 
the southern United States (1680439) ; 
75 specimens of mosquito larvae on 
slides, comprising 7 species, collected 
in Guadalcanal (168828); 388 slides 
of mosquito material representing 40 
species occurring in the southeastern 
United States (169110); 7 slides of 
mosquito material (170467). 

CaARPINTER Faminy. (See under Dr. 
Milton Carpinter Cobey.) 

Carr, A. T., Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 
B. W. I.: 1 otter skull (165357). 

Carter, DeWitt W., Washington, D. C.: 
2 flies (169147). 

CassELL, Set. JosrpuH F., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 25 reptiles and 
amphibians from New Guinea, also 
1 scorpion (167459). 

CastELio, Maj. Roperto Levi, Guaya- 
quil, Ecuador: A small collection of 
mosquitoes (168173). 

CatHotic UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, 
Washington, D. C.: (Through Rev. 
Hugh O'Neill) Cultivated plant 
(168058). 

CAVALIER CorPoRATION, Chattanooga, 
Tenn.: 2 cedar chests, one a ‘“‘Stow- 
away,’ faced with Honduras mahog- 
any veneer, and the other conven- 
tional, faced with primavera and 
aspen crotch veneers (168970, ex- 
change). 

Crrny, JosepH J. (See under Anthony 
Kovarik.) 

CERTIFIED GAUGE & INSTRUMENT CoR- 
PORATION, Long Island City, N. Y.: 
1 4%-inch Certified pressure gauge 
used for indicating the pressure of 
steam, air, water, and other fluids 
(168337). 

CHAMBERLAIN, Dr. JosrpH C., Palmer, 
Alaska: 91 beetles collected in Alaska 
(168760). 

CHANDLER, Pvt. Percy A., A. P. O., 
New York, N. Y. (See under War 
Department, Army Medical Muse- 
um. 

CuHapin, Dr. Epwarp A., Washington, 
D. C.: 4 crayfishes from Lake Gar- 
field, Mass. (168225); 40 mollusks 
from Lake Garfield, Monterey, Berk- 
shire County, Mass. (168958). 

CHAPMAN, Dr. WitBertT M. (See under 
California Academy of Sciences.) 

CHARLESTON Musrum, Charleston, S. 
C.: Fossil bird bone (tarsometatarsus) 
from near Drum JIsland, Cooper 
River, Charleston, 8. C. (166377). 


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CuasB, Mrs. Acnes, Washington, D. 
C.: 17 grasses (167929); 46 grasses 
from Australia (168068); 37 plants 
from Australia (168167); 67 grasses 
(168679) ; 102 South American grasses 
of the Second Goodspeed Expedition 
of the University of California (168- 
942); 12 plants from British Guiana 
(169435). 

CuatuamM, C. F., San Francisco, Calif.: 
1 synthetic emerald (168609). 

CHEN, Sur Fone, Washington, D. 

77 mollusks from northern Alabama 
(169676); 180 specimens of land and 
fresh-water snails from northern Ala- 
bama (170186); 70 mollusks from 
Alabama and 5 vials of insects, 
ectoparasites, from rats collected in 
Chicago, 1943 (170542). 

Cuicaco Natura History MuseEum, 
Chicago, IIl.: 66 photographs of 
ferns from Peru (86423, exchange); 
69 plants (cellular cryptogams) (168- 
482, exchange); 25 plants from 
Hawaiian Islands (169761, 170346, 
exchange). 

Cuvu, H. Cuaruzs and T. U., Washing- 
ton, D. C.: 6 Chinese souvenir post- 
age stamps (169858). 

Crv1LiaN Drrernsez, Sector Post I, Zone 
E, Area 47, Washington, D. C.: 
(through Hayner H. Gordon) Air- 
raid warden’s equipment of the period 
of World War II, 48 specimens 
(170295). 

CLARE, STEWART, Kansas City, Mo.: 
20 miscellaneous insects (169807); 4 
insects (170099). 

Cuark, Austin H. (See under Dr. 
Lawrence I. Hewes.) 

CuarkK, Prof. W. MAaNsFIELD. (See 
under National Research Council.) 
CiLausEeNn, Prof. Ropert T., Ithaca, N. 
Y.: 19 plants (168481, exchange). 
CLEMENT, Rev. Brother, Santiago de 
Cuba, Cuba: 98 plants from Cuba 

(168368, 168872, 169287). 

CLEVELAND, Mrs. GerrtrupE O. 6., 
Quinebaug, Conn.: Homespun cot- 
ton quilt with block-printed chintz 
top and a hand-woven overshot 
weave coverlet, both made before 
1803 on the Corey farm in Plainfield, 
Conn., by Abbie Corey Brackett 
(1782-1880); also a pieced silk quilt 
in the ‘‘Crazy Patch’’ pattern made in 
1888 by the donor, her mother, Mrs. 
Gertrude Olney Stevens, and her sister, 
Celia Campbell Stevens (169638). 

Cosry, Dr. Mitton CaRPINTER, Wash- 
ington, D. C.: (Through the Carpin- 
ter family) 2 porcelain medicine 
spoons (169698); an old household 
drug and spice mill (170039). 

Cocuran, Dr. Doris M., Washington, 
D. C.: 1 turtle, 1 salamander, 3 
crayfishes, and a small collection of 


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1945 


insects from Adams County, Pa. 
(167889); 1 cultivated plant (170230). 
CocKERELL, Prof. T A., Boulder, 


Colo.: 222 insects, mostly bees 
(167840). 
CoLBuRN, Burnuam §&., Biltmore, N. 


C.: 7 lots of hiddenite, including 4 
large individuals, and 1 cyanite from 
North Carolina (170138). 

Conuins, Ler R., Knoxville, Tenn.: 
Cast of fossil tooth, original of which 
was found in cave near Bulverde, 
Tex. (167941). 

Couuins, W. N. 
F. Jones.) 

CotoraDo State CoLueGcE, Fort Col- 


(See under Charles 


lins, Colo.: (Through Prof. H. D. 
Harrington) 1 grass from Colorado 
(169172). 


CoLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF, 
Washington, D., C.: About 3,900 
mollusks (168194). 

Comisi6N DE BorAnica, Cali, Colombia: 
125 plants from Colombia (167564, 
exchange); (through Dr. J. Cuatre- 
casas) 157 plants from Colombia 
(168784, exchange); 368 plants from 
Colombia (168849, exchange) ; (through 
Prey Cuatrecasas) 179 plants and 1 
palm from Colombia (168910, 170421, 
exchange). 

CoMMERCE DEPARTMENT oF, Metals 
Reserve Company, Washington, D. C.: 
A quartz crystal, weight 5.7 pounds, 
from Ashe County, N. C. (168686). 

CoMMERFORD, LrestER E., Washington, 
D. C.: 1 cedar waxwing (169935). 

Conover, Wiutuarp D., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 8 butterflies (4 
duplicates and 4 unique) (168508). 

ConsTANTINE, Denny, Los Angeles, 
Calif.: 4 bats from Azusa, Calif., and 
6 from Concan, Tex. (168730, ex- 
change). 

ConweE.L.L, L. A., F. P. O., San Fran- 
cisco, Calif.: A small collection of 
miscellaneous insects, spiders, lizards, 
crabs, hermit crabs, and mollusks 
from the South Pacific (169015, 
169134, 169220, 169225, 169256, 
169331, 169351, 169531, 169691, 
169745). 

Coox, Harotp J., Agate, Nebr.: 5 
pelecypods from “Old Woman Creek 
Anticline,”’ ee Wyoming (170409). 

Cootry, Dr. R (See under Federal 
Security Apeleed U.S. Public Health 
Service, Hamilton, Mont.) 

Coorrer, Dr. G. ArtHurR, Washington, 
D. 1 specimen of Devonian 
brachiopod containing unusual color 
marks (169853). 

Cooprr, Prof. KENNETH W., Princeton, 
N. J.:’ 35 beetles from Barro Colorado 
Island, Canal Zone (169239) ; (through 
Dr. M. R. Smith) a small ‘collection 
of insects, mostly beetles (170188). 


ACCESSIONS 


CopELAND, Lt. R. A., Jr., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 19 plants from the 
Philippine Islands (170109). 

Core, Prof. Eart L. (See under West 
Virginia University.) 

CorNELL UNIvERsITy, Ithaca, N. Y-.: 
(Through Dr. Henry Dietrich) 8 flies 
comprising 4 paratypes each of 2 
species (169933, exchange); 1 slide of 
insect material (169934, exchange). 

CorNER, Prof. GrorcE W., Baltimore, 
Md.: 1 cuscus from the Admiralty 
Islands, collected by Dr. G. W. 
Corner, Jr. (169000). 

CovitLtzE, Mrs. F. V., Washington, 
i9e A collection of baskets from 
western Indian tribes, a powder flask, 
and a shot flask (170195). 

CoyrLeE, JoHN. (See under James Mayer.) 

CRAIGHEAD, Lt. (jg) FRanx. (See 
under Navy Department, U.S. Naval 
Air Station.) 

Cram, Dr. Enoisr B. (See under 
Federal Security Agency, Public 
Health Service, National Institute of 
Health.) 

Crans, EMMA CorNE LIA, Washington, 

C.: (Through Grace M. Denison), 
knitted cover for horse’s ears, ca. 
1900 (169231). 

Crockert, Dr. R. L., Oneida, N. Y.: 
7 plants from Texas (164975). 

CronHEmm, §8. P., Atlanta, Ga.: 10 
specimens of muscovite and biotite 
crystals from Mitchell-Creek mica 
mine, Upson County, Ga. (168801, 
exchange) ; 41 specimens of muscovite 
mica from same locality (169415). 

Cross, RicHarp. (See under Lloyd F. 
Gunther.) 

CrossEeTt, Epwarp C., Wianno, Mass.: 
6 pictorial photographs (168007). 

Crown FastENER CORPORATION. (See 
under Spool Cotton Co.) 

Cuatrecasas, Dr. J. (See under Comi- 
sién de Botdnica.) 


CuLutEN, EvizapetH O., Washington, 
D. C.: (Through J. E. ’Graf) German 
parachute with carrying case, inspec- 
tion booklet, and certificate of authen- 
ticity (168995). 


Curtiss, ANTHONY, Port-- au - Prince, 
Haiti: A small collection of miscella- 
neous insects from Haiti (167878); 
122 reptiles and amphibians, 50 fishes, 
5 mammals, 10 mollusks, 1 parasitic 
worm, 22 marine invertebrates, and 
a small collection of insects (167978) ; 
90 reptiles and amphibians, 18 fish, 
154 insects, 18 mollusks, and 2 mam- 
mals from Haiti (169732). 

DAHLGREEN, CHARLES W., Oak Park, 
I}l.: 76 etchings and drypoints by the 
donor (170141). 

Datny, Mrs. F. K., Indianapolis, Ind.: 
1 plant from Indiana (169296). 


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Daniet, Brother, Medellin, Colombia: 
85 plants from Colombia (168399, 
168902, 169615). 

DantE, Joun, Austin, Tex.: Mounted 
skeleton of striped bass, skeletonized 
by the donor (168226). 

Davis, Maj. H. A. (See under War De- 
partment, Army Medical Museum.) 
Davis, HELEN Epirus, Stillwater, Okla.: 

(Through Prof. R. Chester Hughes) 
7 slides of helminths, including type 
and paratypes of a new _ species 

(168212). 

Dayton, W. A. (See under U. 8. De- 
pesppces of Agriculture, Forest Serv- 
ice. 

Duan, G. B., Collegedale, Tenn.: 1 bug 
(168518). 

Derarinc, PauLt, Washington, D. C.: 
1 Devonian coral from Williamsburg, 
N. Y. (167920). 

DrCastro, Hon. Morris F., St. 
Thomas, Virgin Islands: 2 pieces of 
wood containing approximately 20 
marine borers (169108). 

DrcEenerR, Orro, New York, N. Y.: 1 
nematode (168656). 

Drienan, H. G., Washington, D. C.: 
143 bird skins, 7 bird skeletons, mam- 
mals, insects, reptiles, snails, worms, 
and shells (169226); 236 land, fresh- 
water, and marine shells and some 
barnacles from Ceylon (170508). 

Denison, Grace M. (See under Emma 
Cornelia Crans.) 

Dennine, D. G. (See under Federal 
Security Agency, Public Health Serv- 
ice, New Orleans, La.) 

Densmore, FrRANcEs, Red Wing, Minn.: 
Columbia gramaphone, 1908, with 8 
cylindrical records, some blank and 
some with recorded Indian songs, and 
several spare parts (167996). 

Desien CENTER, INc., New York, N. Y. 
(Through Louis Pfohl) A recognition 
model of the Russian heavy bomber 
TB-7, 1942 (168227). 

DEVRY CorRpoRATION, Chicago, III.: 
1 No. 1 DeVry portable suitcase 
motion-picture projector (170266). 

DrWotr, Epwarp, Washington, D. C.: 
1 Prosch ‘‘Athlete’’ high-speed camera 
shutter (169620). 

DIAMANT TyYPOGRAPHIC SERVICE, INc., 
New York, N. Y.: 3 miniature books 
printed by the donor and known as 
the ‘‘Diamant Classics’’—‘‘On the 
Typographic Beam,’ by George F. 
Trenholm; ‘“‘Why Go Modern?” by 
Frederic W. Goudy; and ‘‘The Art of 
Printing,” by Stanley Morison 
(170567). 

Dickason, Dr. F. G., Wooster, Ohio: 
Plant from India (169229). 

DicKERMAN, Dr. E. E.., Bowling Green, 
Ohio: Type and paratype of trem- 
atode (168738). 


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Dietricn, Dr. Henry, Ithaca, N. Y.: 
4 beetles (168614). (See also under 
Cornell University.) 

pIGEMMA, JOSEPH P., Brooklyn, N. Y.: 
3 relief prints by the donor made 
from plaster blocks, a new process 
developed by the artist: ‘‘The 
Farmer,” ‘‘The Old Barn,’ and 
“Farm in Vermont,” a color print; 
1 relief print by the donor, ‘Semper 
Paratus,’’ made from a rubber surface 
(170259). 

District oF CoLtumBiA. Public Health 
Office, Washington, D. C.: 1 pine 
mouse collected in the District of 
Columbia (170529). 

Dover, Harotp R., Macon, Ga.: 40 
species of mosquito larvae, melanistic 
form (169883). 

Dover, Henry, Clearwater, Fla.: 3 
marine shells from Sulu Islands, 
Philippines (165665). 

Donaupson, R. S., Stockton, Calif.: 
1 pair of women’s gloves, fancy 
gauntlet type, of black leather that 
has been treated by a preserving proc- 
ess using linseed oil (168208). 

Dorsey, H. W., Washington, D. C.: 
2 skulls of the redhead duck (168853) ; 
2 skulls of canvasback ducks (169337). 

Dovueuerrty, Evuswortu C., Berkeley, 
Calif.: 2 slides containing type and 
paratype of a nematode (169116). 

Dovetas, James StTuaRT, WALTER 
Dovetas, and Mrs. ARCHIBALD 
Dovetas, New York, N. Y.: The 
Dr. James Douglas collection of 
copper minerals from Bisbee, Ariz., 
and the T. Sterry Hunt collection of 
minerals (168003). 

Drake, Prof. Cart J., Ames, Iowa: 
3 bugs (166778, exchange); 10 bugs 
(169685); 6 bugs representing 4 
species and including 2 paratypes 
of 1 species and 1 paratype each of 
2 other species (169901). 

DRELESKY,. .\Capts “Hn “A> A. «*P it O.. 
New York, N. Y.: 2 plants from 
Assam (170174). 

Drovet, Dr. Francis, Chicago, IIL: 
15 plants from Plummers Island, 
Md., and the adjacent area (170431). 

DryanpDER, Mrs. Epiru, Cali, Colom- 


bia: 76 plants from Colombia 
(169785). 
DuCuanois, F. Rosgert, Corpus 


Christi, Tex.: 2 western coral snakes, 
from Corpus Christi (168441). 

DuckwortnH, A. S., Cape Girardeau, 
Mo.: 1 slide of Foraminifera 
(169588). 

Duke University, Durham, N. C-.: 
19 ferns from Puerto Rico (169669, 
exchange). 

Dyas, Ropert Joun (deceased), Belle- 
vue, Iowa: Stone ax found on Octo- 
ber 12, 1912, north of the town limits 


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of Bellevue, Jackson County, Iowa, 
by the donor (168726). 

HaGcur-Orrawa Lraturer Co., Grand 
Haven, Mich.: 47 swatches, 12 by 
18 inches, of full topgrain leathers of 
various weights, colors, and finishes 
(169088). 

Eaton, ALLEN, New York, N. Y.: 
Copy of an old hand-operated roller 
cotton gin that is still being used by 
Mrs. William Martin, who lives near 
Murphy, N. C. (169142). 

Epison, THomas A., Inc., West Orange, 
N. J.: “Ediphone” Dictating and 
Transcription Machine Unit consist- 
ing of: 1 Edison Miracle Model 
Executive Dictating Machine and 
accessories, Serial No. D—533670, 1 
Edison Miracle Model Secretarial 
Transcribing Machine and accessories, 
Serial No. T—533949 (170053). 

EDNER, OrvILLE R., Campbell, Minn.: 
(Through Robert Teeters) Molar 
tooth of fossil elephant and fragment- 
ary human skull, lower jaws and 2 
long bones of more than one individual 
(168001). 

Epwarps, Lt. Wiuuarp E., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 1 egg of the 
Laysan albatross (170038). 

Enruicu, Oscar, New York, N. Y.: A 
Wynne Infallible exposure meter 
(168863). 

EISENHOWER, Gen. Dwicut D., New 
York, N. Y.: Chair and desk used by 
General Eisenhower in the war zone 
(168675, deposit) ; baby girl doll dressed 
in Breton costume presented to Gen- 
eral Hisenhower by the people of 
Brittany as a token of appreciation 
to the children of America for the as- 
sistance of the United States during 
World War II, and an illustrated 
pamphlet entitled ‘‘Les Poupées de 
Bretagne’ (168860). 

Euuis, T. K., Orangeburg, 8S. C.: 59 
marine invertebrates, 60 mollusks, 3 
fishes, and 50 insects (169078). 

Emmons, Dr. C. W. (See under Federal 
Security Agency, Public Health Serv- 
ice, National Institute of Health.) 

ENGINEERING & RESEARCH CORPORA- 
TION, Riverdale, Md.: 1 ‘‘Compreg’’ 
airplane propeller blade (169090); 
sample of ‘‘Compreg,’’ a high density 
plywood (169228). 

ENGLISH, H., Philadelphia, Pa.: 
Ammeter (Ampermemeter), Queen 
& Co., Philadelphia, Pa., Serial No. 
67G, taken from Niagara Falls 
Steam Plant (169945). 

EScUELA SUPERIOR DE AGRICULTURA 
TrRopPicaAL, Cali, Colombia: 44 plants 
from Colombia (168835, exchange). 

EurREKA Mica Minine Co., Albu- 
querque, N. Mex.: (Through N. W. 
Sides) Several cleavage pieces of 


ACCESSIONS 


muscovite from Eureka mica mines, 

4 miles from Petaca, Rio Arriba 

County, N. Mex. (170187). 

Ewy, Eruet E., Whittier, Calif.: 197 
crustaceans from California (167520). 

FaIRcHILD, Capt. GraHAM, Ancon, 
Canal Zone: (Through Dr. J. P. 
Morrison) 3 land shells from Panama 
(168824). 

FALKENAU, JANET S., Pelham, N. Y.: 
About 4,000 marine shells from Clear- 
water, Fla. (167870). 

Fareo, WitttAM B., Pass-a-Grille Beach, 
Fla.: 38 marine mollusks from Pass-a- 
Grille Beach (169882). 

Fauuu, Prof. J. H. (See under Harvard 
University, Arnold Aboretum.) 

FEDERAL SEcuRITY AGENCY: 

Public Health Service, National In- 
stitute of Health, Bethesda, Md.: 
(Through Dr. Eloise B. Cram) 191 
mollusks (168582, 168601) ; 64 fresh- 
water snails (169082); 84 fresh- 
water snails (169968); (through 
Dr. C. W. Emmons) 1 plant from 
Montana (169045). 

Public Health Service, Hamilton, Mont.: 
(Through Maj. William L. Jellison) 
small collections of insects includ- 
ing material from Assam, western 
Montana, and California (168050, 
168620, 169848); (through Maj. 
William L. Jellison and Dr. H. B 
Mills) 2 bugs, infesting bats, and 4 
land snails from Birch Creek, Mont. 
(168871); (through Dr. Ron 
Cooley) 7 ticks, including para- 
types of 6 new species (169058, 
170156, 170299); 29 flies reared in 
Montana (169397) ; 4 bugs from a 
bat-infested cabin at “Lakeside, 
Flathead Lake, Flathead County, 
Mont. (169791); (through Maj. 
Glen M. Kohls) 7 frogs, 1 lizard, 1 
snake from New Guinea, collected 
by Major Kohls (170256); 1 coypu 
trapped in the wild near Corvallis, 
Ravalli County, Mont. (170260): 
1 abnormally colored muskrat 
trapped in small pond near Charlo, 
Lake County, Mont., in winter of 
1943-44 (170369). 

Public Health Service, New Orleans, 

a.: (Through D. G. Denning) 4 
specimens of mosquito material 
comprising female, male and male 
slide, and larva (170110). 

Public Health Service, San Francisco, 
Calif.: A collection of approximately 
400 specimens of fresh-water oli- 
gochaetes, in part studied by the 
late Gustav Eisen (167888, de- 
posit); (through F. M. Prince) 5 
slides of insects, all paratypes 
(170086). 

Public Health Service, San Juan, P. R.: 
(Through Harry D. Pratt) A small 


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collection of insects taken by Mr. 
Pratt and J. Maldonado on El 
Yunque, P. R., at elevation of 
2,000 feet (168222) ; (through Jen- 
aro M. Capriles (19 fleas collected 
in Puerto Rico (168321); (through 
Harry D. Pratt) collection of mis- 
cellaneous insects from Puerto 
Rico (169398). 

Public Health Service, Washington, 
D. C.:1 rodent from Egypt collected 
by Dr. Barlow (168761); (through 
Dr. Newell E. Good) 130 mos- 
quitoes from the District of Col- 
umbia (169418). 

Fris, Mrs. Herpert. (See under Mrs. 
Joseph Stanley-Brown.) 

FENNAH, G., Castries, St. Lucia, 
B. W. L: 8 vials of insects collected 
in the British West Indies (167921); 
1 insect (holotype) (169044). 

FERNALD, Prof. H. T., Winter Park, 
Fla.: 311 identified sphecoid wasps 
including 29 types of various grades 
(1698138). 

Frevp, T/4 Wiutam D., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: A collection of mis- 
cellaneous insects, including 1 cigar- 
boxful of butterflies, from the Ha- 
waiian Islands, mostly from Oahu 
(170297). 

Fierce, Maupz M., Washington, D. C.: 
Embroidered linen splasher worked 
in ecrewel or outline stitch with 
Turkey red cotton, about 1880 in 
Hamden, Ohio, by Mrs. Naomi C. 
Wilson, aunt of the donor (170257). 

Fiaqins, Dr. J. D. (deceased), Lex- 
ington, Ky.: (Through Dr. F. H. H. 
Roberts, Sr.) Skull and a few frag- 
ments of bone found near Folsom, N. 
Mex., about 1935 (169681). 

FincHER, J. A., Jackson, Miss.; 5 
groups of the hydroid stage and 
8 medusae of fresh-water jellyfish 
(168625). 


Finn, Mrs. KatHuren Macy, Ardsley- 
on-Hudson, N. Y.: 33 aquatints for 
special exhibition from January 15 
through February 11, 1945, the work 
of Mrs. Finn (169320, loan); 4 prints, 
made by the donor, as follows: 
“Yellow Head” and ‘‘Siskins,”’ aqua- 
tints in color, ‘Saguenay Shore,” 
soft-ground etching, and ‘Woolly 
Head, ” lift-ground etching (169798). 

Fiso, Mrs. Hamiuton, Jr., Washington, 
D. C.: Cape owned and worn by the 
Honorable Hamilton Fish, statesman, 
during the early part of the nineteenth 
century (169021). 

FisuHer, Dr. A. K., Washington, D. C.: 
72 photographs of naturalists 
(170580). 

FisHer, Greorace L., Houston, Tex.: 
63 plants from Mexico (168443). 


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FLEETWOOD, RaymMonnp J., Round Oak, 
Ga.: 1 Bachman shrew (168339). 

Fiemina, Mrs. Roger, Refugio, Tex.: 
1 beetle (firefly) collected in Texas 
(170508). 

FLorIDA, UNIVERSITY oF, Gainesville, 
Fla.: (Through Dr. A. N. Tissot) 1 
beetle (169841). 

FLorRIDA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT 
Station, Gainesville, Fla.: (Through 
Dr. A. N. Tissot) 11 slides of aphids, 
including holotype and morphotype 
slides of 2 species (168239); 3 speci- 
mens of insects comprising 2 moths 
and 1 hymenopterous parasite of 
the moth (168366). 

Firower, Dr. Rousseau H., Albany, 
N. Y.: 1 Upper Ordovician mollusk 
(167814). 

ForEIGN Economic ADMINISTRATION, 
Washington, D. C.: (Through James 
S. Baker) 5 specimens of cassiterite, 
tantalite, zinc, and muscovite from 
Madagascar and Brazil (168803); 
(through Arthur T. Sempie) 87 
plants, mostly grasses from Ethiopia 
(168903); 50 plants from Ethiopia 
(170196). 

ForsBerG, G. W., Washington, D. C.: 
A single-cylinder, _vertical-piston 
valve steam engine, ca. 1900 (168843). 

FosuHaG, Dr. W. F., Washington, D. C.: 
18 shells from Michoacdin and Guer- 
rero, Mexico (168093); 8 recently 
woven decorative pouches from the 
Otomi Indians of four ranchos or 
villages in the State of Hidalgo, 
Mexico (168808). 

Fostrr, Marx M., Denio, Oreg.: Fossil 
hazelnut and 58 specimens of fossil 
woods from Virgin Basin, Nev. 
(168357). 

Fow Ler, Hartan D., Whittier, Calif.: 
A model of a Lockheed airplane, 
“‘Constellation’”’ (1944), equipped with 
movable Fowler fiaps (169861). 

FRANKLIN, J. Morton, West Falls 
Church, Va.: 2 plants from vicinity of 
Washineton, D. C. (170178). 

FrRAScHE, Dran, Washington, D. C.: 


A collection of chromite crystals from | 


the Sierra Chrome Mines, Ltd., Sierra 
Leone, Africa (170294). 

FRENCH, FRANKLIN C., Camp Swift, 
Tex.: A small collection of inverte- 
brates, comprising barnacles, amphi- 
pods, isopods, hermit crabs, a poly- 
chaete worm, and mollusks collected 
at Kiska, Alaska, September 1943 
(168548). 

Frey, Dr. Davip G. (See under U. 8. 
Department of the Interior, Fish and 
Wildlife Service.) 

Frost, Prof. S. W., Arendtsville, Pa.: 
3 flies representing 2 species, 1 by the 
type and the other by 2 paratypes 
(169581). 


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FULLER & pD’ALBERT, Washington, 
D. C.: Collection of lenses and cam- 
eras, accumulation of past 20 years 
(168404); 2 viewing lenses for Motu- 
scope (169908). 

FuLuInG, Lt. Joun H. (See under Smith- 
sonian Institution, National Zoolog- 
ical Park.) 

GALLEGO, F. Luts, Medellin, Colombia: 
A small collection of miscellaneous 
insects from Colombia (166604). 

Gatvao, Dr. A. L. A., SAo Paulo, Brazil: 
3 slides of mosquitoes (167922). 

GAMEWELL Co., Newton Upper Falls, 
Mass.: Original fire alarm in street 
box installed in Boston, Mass., in 
1851 (169789). 

Garcia y Barrica, Dr. HERNANDO. 
(See under Instituto de Ciencias 
Naturales.) 

Gates, Puitre W., Rockville, Md.; 
8 specimens of muscovite mica from 
New Hampshire (168005); 24 speci- 
mens of muscovite from various lo- 
calities in New Hampshire (168628). 

Gisps, Rospert, Chevy Chase, Md.: 
1 black-billed cuckoo (170573). 

GitBERT, Nuat, F. P. O., San Francisco, 
Calif.: 33 plants from Oahu, T. H. 
(169388). 

GitmorE, Dr. RaymMonp, Washington, 
D. C.: (Through the Pan American 
Sanitary Bureau) 12 rats, 5 guinea- 
pigs, and 2 frogs (168754). 

GinsBuRG, Isaac. (See under Depart- 
ment of the Interior, Fish and Wild- 
life Service.) 


GIVLER, Prof. JonN Paut, Greensboro, 
N. C.: 1 bookplate designed by Dr. 
Clyde E. Keeler and printed by half- 
tone letterpress (168202). 


GoppaRD, ARCHIBALD N., Detroit, 
Mich.: 1 gold crystal, locality un- 
known, and 1 specimen of opal in the 
matrix from Carbanera mine, Guer- 
rero, Mexico (168745). 

GOERGENS, GEORGE R., Washington, 
D. C.: 1 speeding-up mechanism for 
motion-picture photography, pat- 
ented April 1, 1919, 1 tripod head 
geared for making panorama pictures 
with an ordinary Kodak, 1915, and 
1 photostat description of the donor’s 
time-lapse or interval motion-picture 
camera from Motion Picture World, 
January 24, 1920 (170487). 

Gorr, Dean §&., Elgin, Ill: Bowl of 
tripod effigy vessel and obsidian flakes 
found by donor in 1899 in State of 
Puebla, Mexico (170173). 

GoLpBERG, Louis, Norwich, Conn.: 
4 pairs of ice skates (168402). 

GoutpmMaNn, Maj. EH. A., Washington, 

. C.: 4 land shells from Dijon, 
France (168620). 


ACCESSIONS 


Goop, Dr. NEwe.tu E. 
Federal Security Agency, Public 
Health Service, Washington, D. C.) 

GoopYEAR TrrE & RuBBER Co., INc., 
Akron, Ohio: 2 pneumatic life rafts 
of synthetic rubber, with the contrac- 
tor’s emergency equipment usually 
supplied therewith (169089, loan). 

Gorpon, Hayner H. (See under Civil- 
ian Defense, Sector Post I, Zone H, 
Area 47.) 

GoTTscHALK, Cart W., Salem, Va.: 
1 butterfly from Virginia (168613). 

GoupEy, Hatrietp, Yerington, Nev.: 
1 specimen of thulite (168390). 

Goutp, Prof. Franx W., Tucson, Ariz.: 
332 plants from the western United 
States (168308, exchange); 193 plants 
(169280, exhcange). 

Goutp, Harris P., Washington, D. C.: 
1 pair of steel spectacles, period of 
1800, and 1 pair of silver spectacles, 
period of 1850 (168566). 

GraF, J. E. (See under Elizabeth O. 
Cullen.) 

Grarr, Col. THEODORE Q., Ada, Ohio: 
Camel bell (170202). 

Grauam, Capt. Owen H., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 74 specimens of 
insects from New Guinea (168851). 

GRANGER, G. G., Lansing, Mich.: 50 
pictorial photographs exhibited dur- 
ing June 1945 (170433, loan). 

Grant, Corp. Norman F., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: Small collection 
of insects from southwest Pacific 
Islands (168336). 

GREEN, Ivan J., St. John’s, Newfound- 
land: 1 grass (168996, exchange). 

GREEN, J. W., Easton, Pa.: 25 beetles, 
including 17 representing 2 species, 
probably new (169716, 169995). (See 
also under G. Stace Smith.) 

GREENE, GEoRGE M., Harrisburg, Pa.: 
2 flies, 1 weevil, and 3. beetles 
(168297). 

GREENFIELD, Ray, Washington, D. C.: 
9 amphipods (169810). 

Greee, Dr. Ropert E., Boulder, Colo.: 
409 ants (167385, exchange). 

Greece, Dr. WENDELL O., Los Angeles, 
Calif.: 9 mollusks from California and 
Baja California (168827). 

GretTHER, Lt. (jg) D. F., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 94 butterflies and 
a few other insects from the Marshall 
and Marianas Islands (169519). 

Grey, Rev. Joun H., Jr., Charlottes- 
ville, Va.: 1 sharp-tailed sparrow 
(168286). 

GrirritH, L. O., Nashville, Ind.: 35 
prints, including 11 color prints by 
L. O. Griffith, for special exhibition 
from May 7 through June 3, 1945 
(170115, loan). 

GRUNER, JOHN W., Minneapolis, Minn.: 
1 specimen of groutite from Cuyana 
Range, Minn. (169057). 


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(See under | GuccENHEIM, Capt. Pau, Los Angeles, 


Calif.: Stone and bone artifacts and 
skeletal material from sites on Am- 
chitka Island, Aleutians (168967). 

GUIBERSON DiEsSEL ENGINE Co., Dal- 
las, Tex.: A radial Diesel engine for 
Army M8 light tank, series 5, T—1020 
model, ca. 1943 (168256). 

GUNTHER, Luoyp F., and RicHARD 
Cross, A. P. O., San Francisco, Calif.: 
177 insects, mostly beetles (168969) 

GuRNEY, Maj. A. B., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif., Collection of mis- 
cellaneous insects collected on Bou- 
gainville Island by donor (168611); 
500 miscellaneous insects including 
11 vials of flies, 6 vials of termites, 
and 2 vials of termite guests, also 7 
mollusks, all from Bougainville ex- 
cept 1 vial collected on Guadalcanal 
in 1933 (169059). 

GutTifirerez A., Ram6n, Santiago, Chile: 
201 beetles (170043, exchange). 

Haptry, Corps. Ho AP. Oe San 
Francisco, Calif.: 2 hermit crabs, 
10+ crabs, 17 mollusks, 1 coral 
(169556) ; 23 marine invertebrates, 1 
beetle, mollusks, and echinoderms 
from New Guinea (169912). 

Harcer, §/Sgt. Jamss S., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: A small collection 
of miscellaneous insects from New 
Guinea (169677). 

Haun, Mrs. E. May. (See under Am- 
erican War Mothers.) 

Hatnrs, A. L., Vermillion, 8S. Dak.: 
Approximately 640 invertebrate fos- 
sils from the Devonian of Iowa and 
10 fossil snails from the Cretaceous 
of South Dakota (168368). 

Hatt, Capt. Davin G., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: A small collection 
of miscellaneous insects from New 
Guinea and adjacent islands (169109). 
(See also under Dr. C. H. T. Town- 
send.) 

Hamet, C. C., Amherst, Ohio: 18 sep- 
taria of marcasite from the Devonian 
of Ohio (168231). 

Hanson, Capt. Joun J., Indiantown 
Gap Military Reservation, Pa.: 3 
model gasoline aircraft engines— 
“Brown” Model FE, ‘‘Brown’’ Model 
D, and “Hurleman  Aristocrat’’ 
(168734, loan); 2 model gasoline air- 
craft engines, “OK Super 60’ and 
“Brat’’ (170170, loan). 

Harpy, Maj. D. Eximo, A. P. O., New 
York, N. Y.: 326 pinned specimens 
of miscellaneous insects (168540); a 
collection of miscellaneous insects, 
collected at various points in India 
(168612). 

Harper, DorotHy Carouyn, Still- 
water, Okla.: 1 plant from Oklahoma 
(169419). 

Harper, Dr. Francis, Swarthmore, 
Pa.: A signal horn and an alligator 


90 


gig, or pick, collected from natives 
of the Okefinokee Swamp area 
(168397). 

Harper, Dr. Routanp M., University, 
Ala.: 45 plants from Alabama 
(167806). 

Harrineton, A. M., Philadelphia, Pa.: 
An umbrella frame constructed with 
ribs of whalebone and used between 
1835 and 1865 at Barre, Mass., by 
G. Hobbs, grandfather of the donor 
(169283). 

Harrineton, Prof. H. D. 
Colorado State College.) 

Harrineron, Lt. (jg) Wuiiuam C., 
Palo Alto, Calif.: 81 mollusks and 
2 starfishes from the South Pacific 
(169359). 

Harzis, B. K., F. P. O., San Francisco, 
Calif.: 31 butterflies (169352). 

Harrison, Prof. Bertram F. (See 
under Brigham Young University.) 

Harry, Harotp Wiutiam, F. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 5 mollusks 
from Saipan (170428). 

HARVARD UNIVERSITY: 

Arnold Arboretum: Jamaica Plain, 


(See under 


Mass.: 294 plants from Cuba 
(167931) 9.(through;) Prof? , Js.\H. 
Faull) 4 ferns from Jamaica 


(168587, exchange); 3 grasses from 
the Fiji Islands (168790); 2 grasses 
from the West Indies (169387) ; 282 
plants (170364); 10 grasses from 
Panama (170507). 

Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass.: 
70 plants from British Columbia 
(168309); 18 plants from Colombia 
(168401); 71 plants from Grand 
Manan, New Brunswick (168783); 
31 grasses from Panama (169332); 
8 photographs of plants (169679) ; 
(through C. A. Weatherby) 2 


photographs of plants (168943, 
exchange). 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, 


Cambridge, Mass.: (Through Wil- 
liam C. Schroeder) paratype of a 
fish from Cuba (167863, exchange) ; 
10 cotypes, 5 specimens each, of 2 
species of fishes (168158, exchange) ; 
(through Prof. Nathan Banks) 7 
flies (168282); 10 cotypes of cat- 
fishes and 3 paratypes of sharks 
(168905, exchange); 5 _ beetles 
(169291); 1 mollusk (169468, ex- 
change); 134 reptiles including 
cotypes or paratypes of 22 species, 
also 8 turtles from Acapulco, Mex- 
ico (169815, gift, exchange); 7 
beetles (170177, exchange). 
Hassrouck, Dr. EK. M., Washington, 
D. C.: 1 surf scoter (169486). 
Hasuer, Prof. ArrHur D. (See under 
Frits Johansen and Prof. Chancey 
Juday.) 
Hatcu, Prof. Mruvinue H., Seattle, 
Wash.: 3 beetles (169342). 


REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


Haveut, Oscar L., Bogota, Colombia: 
1 fern from Colombia (168955); 1,319 
plants from Colombia (169222). 

HavILANnD, JoHN G., Washington, D. 
C.: Walrus tusk engraved by Onno, 
a native of |Chukchee Peninsula, 
Siberia (169759). 

Hayes, Prof. Aubert O., New Bruns- 
wick, N. J.: 2 brachiopods from the 
Silurian of New Brunswick, Canada. 

Heap, Henry R., Ithaca, N. Y.: 1 
fluted folsomoid blade of green jasper 
said to have been found on a bench 
above Willseyville Creek, 1 mile west 
of Willseyville, Tioga County, N. Y., 
about 1881 (160827). 

HENDERSON, CHARLES B. (See under 
Department of Commerce, Metals 
Reserve Co.) 

Henry, N. E., Jersey Shore, Pa.: 1 
wheel bug (168349). 

HeERAtp, Lt. Eart 8S. (See under War 
Department, Army Air Forces Tac- 
tical Center.) 

HERMANN, Dr. FREDERICK J., Green- 
belt, Md.: A small collection of 
insects from Colombia, Peru, and 
Brazil, taken in 1944 (168240); 36 
grasses from Colombia and Peru 
(168937); 6 plants from Maryland 
and Virginia (169046); 132 plants 
from Colombia (168935, 168939, 
169614) ;1 cultivated plantfrom Puerto 
Rico (169793). 

HeRTLEIN, Dr. L. G. (See under Cali- 
fornia Academy of Sciences.) 

Hess, Frank L., College Park, Md.: 
2 specimens of uranium minerals 
from Ruggles mine, Grafton Center, 
N. H., and 1 granite from the dike at 
Hogden Hill, southwest of Buckfield, 
Maine (168610); 1 specimen of goald- 
fieldite from Mohawk Lease, Gold- 
field, Nev. (168627). 

Hess, J. W., Washington, D. C.: 30 
plants from Australia (169896). 

Hester, J. Pinckney, Fredonia, Ariz.: 
7 plants from southwestern United 
States (168711); fruit of cactus 
(168750). 

Hewes, Dr. L. I., San Francisco, Calif.: 
(Through Austin H. Clark) 14 Lepi- 
doptera (170219). 

HisBBARD, Raymonp R., Buffalo, N. Y.: 
3 samples of washings with Ostracoda 
and Bryozoa from the Middle De- 
vonian rocks of western New York 
(168195, exchange). 

HicHam, H. W., Springfield, Va.: Gold 
medal and silver belt presented to 
H. W. Higham in 1883 and 1880, 
respectively, in recognition of his 
achievements as long-distance cham- 
pion bicycle rider of the world and a 
photograph of him in bicycle costume 
(168449). 

Hietny, Dean L. Auten, Delaware 
City, Del.: 13 iron concretions with 


ACCESSIONS 


regularly arranged surface markings, 
from the northern area of the Black 
Hills, near Buffalo, S. Dak. (168219). 

HILDEBRAND, Dr. 8. F. (See under De- 
partment of the Interior, Fish and 
Wildlife Service.) 


Hincxuey, L. C., Marfa, Tex.: 23 
plants from Texas (167844); 30 
grasses from Texas (168998). 

Hircucock, Prof. C. Lro. (See under 


University of Washington.) 

Hosss, Dr. Horton H., Gainesville, 
Fla.: 4 isopods from Florida (155587) ; 
1 blind amphipod (167707); 12 cray- 
fishes including types of 2 new species 
and paratypes of one of them (169597) 

HorrMan, KicuarpD L., Charlottesville, 
Va.: 9 salamanders from near Char- 
lottesville (170048). 

HOLDRIDGE, . R., Port-au-Prince, 
Haiti: 205 plants from Haiti (168027, 
170204). 

Houuanp, Maj. THomas C. 
Mrs. Clarissa, Humphreys.) 

Houzserc, Mrs. T. J., Washington, 
D. C.: 3 miniature cameras and 3 
plate holders (168506). 

Honess, Capt. Rateo F., A. P. O., 
San Franciseo, Calif.: 72 fresh-water 
snails from Zambales Province, Lu- 
zon, Philippine Islands (170070). 

Hoover, Hon. Hersert, Palo Alto, 
Calif.: (Through Mrs. Gertrude L. 
Bowman.) Dress and pair of shoes 
owned by Mrs. Herbert Hoover 
(167821); silver metal thread dress 
and pair of black and silver evening 
slippers worn by Mrs. Herbert Hoover 
during the administration of her 
husband as President of the United 
States (169444). 

Horney, Lester G., Rockport, Mass.: 
52 prints (46 etchings and 6 litho- 
graphs) by Lester G. Hornby, for 
special exhibition from March 12 
through April 8, 1945, under the title 
“Etchings and Lithographs of Paris 
and Rural France’’ (169799, loan). 

Horney, Opus C. (See under Mrs 
Andrew Summers Rowan.) 

Horcuxiss, Nei. (See under Depart- 
ment of the Interior, Fish and Wild- 
life Service.) 

Howe, Mrs. Emerson, Washington, 
D. C.: French and Spanish swords 
and a Peruvian diplomatic uniform 
(24 specimens) (169237); 10 pre- 
historic Peruvian vessels (169339). 

Hrpuiéka, Dr. AwurS (deceased): 2 
feathered ponchos from Peru col- 
lected by the donor and presented to 
the Museum in 1912 (169866). 


Hussarp, Prof. C. ANpDREsEN, Forest 
Grove, Oreg.: 12 fleas representing 8 
species, all types and _ allotypes 
(168420), 


(See under 


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Hupss, Dr. Caru L., La Jolla, Calif.: 
2 copepods (167879). (See also under 
Prof. Loye Miller.) 

HuckereL, Harte W., Sudbury, Mass.: 
12 examples of graphic art as follows: 
7 lithographs, 1 Woodburytype, 1 
highlight halftone, 1 offset lithograph, 
1 line-engraving, and 1 invitation 
card used by Thomas Sully (169232). 

HurrmMan, Earu C., Pasadena, Calif.: 
144 marine mollusks from the Gulf of 
California (168432). 


Hueues, Prof. R. CuHester. (See 
under Helen Edith Davis.) 

Hutt, Dennison B., Chicago, IIL: 
1 Ontarion hearing set in lucite case 
(169867). 


Humes, Dr. Artuur G., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 1 bat collected on 
Mios Woendi, Padaido Islands, near 
Biak, Dutch New Guinea (168998). 

HumpHrey, Frmep L., Reno, Nev.: 
About 60 Middle and Lower Cam- 
brian trilobites from the Groom dis- 
trict, Nevada (169646). 

Humpureys, Mrs. Cuiarissa, Crosby- 
ton, Tex.: (Through Maj. Thomas 
C. Holland) Silicified interior of a 
septarium from Montague County, 
Tex. (168163). 

Huneerrorp, Prof. H. B., (See under 
University of Kansas.) 

Hunt, T. Sterry. (See under James 
Stuart Douglas.) 

Hunter, Maj. Grorcs W., III, Wash- 
ington, D. C.: 40 mollusks from Palo, 
Leyte, Philippine Islands (169725); 
12 mollusks from Saipan (169990). 

Hunziker, ARMANDO T., Buenos Aires, 
Argentina: 3 plants from Argentina 
(168941). 

Hutcuins, JAMES, Windon, N. C.: 1 
nest of the red-eyed vireo (167897). 

Hurzny, Lt; Gg), J. N.,.F. P;.0., San 
Francisco, Calif.: (Through Dr. Alan 
Stone) A small collection of insects 
and Crustacea, containing several 
species of unusual interest, collected 
on Iwo Jima (170194). 

Hyman, Dr. Lippizs H., New York, 
N. Y.: 1 flatworm slide representing 
a new species recently described by 
Dr. Hyman (167938). 

Intinois Strate Natursaut History 
SurvEY Division, Urbana, IIL: 
(Through Dr. H. H. Ross) 2 beetles 
(169255). 

Iuutino1s, UNivERsITy oF, Urbana, IIL: 
(Through Prof. John T. Buchholz) 7 
photographs of plants (167930, ex- 


change). 

Int1s, T/5 Huen H., A. P. O., New 
York, N. Y.: 1 plant from Okla- 
homa (169152); 63 plants from 


France (170505). 
Int1s, Prof. Hueo, Fredericksburg, Va.: 
6 parasitic copepods (161576). 


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Int1s, Pfc. Witrrep G., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 5 mollusks, 5 
corals, 8 echinoderms, 3 snakes, 1 
lizard, 7 frogs, and a few crustaceans 
(168794): a collection of insects, 
crustaceans, and mollusks (168945). 

IncuiIs, Frep B. (See under St. Clair 
Brooks.) 

INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE, 
Mayagiiez, Puerto Rico: 9 plants 
from Puerto Rico (170441). 

Instiruto AGRoN6mMico po NokrtTE, 
Belma, Pard, Brazil: (Through Dr. 
Felisberto Camargo) 14 plants from 
Brazil (168619). 

InstiruTo pE CreNcIAS NATURALES, 
Bogota, Colombia: (Through Dr. 
Hernando Garcia y Barriga) 155 
plants from Colombia (167946); 
(through Francisco J. Otoya) 51 
beetles from Colombia (168172); 342 
plants from Colombia (168330, 168623 
168648, exchange). 

INsTITUTO DE EXPERIMENTAL AGRI- 
cota, Rio de _ Janeiro, Brazil: 
(Through Dr. Petr Wygodzinsky) 7 
Hemiptera, representing 5 genera 
and 5 species (169412, exchange). 

InstTiITUTO EXPERIMENTAL DE INVESTI- 
GACION Y FomEnto AGRICOLA-GANA- 
DERO, Santa Fe, Argentina: (Through 
Arturo E. Rangonese) 84 plants from 
Argentina (156573). 

InsTiruTO Gammon, Lavras, Minas 
Gerais, Brazil: 300 grasses from 
Brazil (170272, exchange). 

Interior, U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF THE: 
Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa.: 

8 photographs of mining scenes 
illustrating sources of mineral drugs 
(168428). 

Fish and Wildlife Service, Chicago, 
Iil.: (Through Neil Hotchkiss) 12 
plants from Alaska (167932), 12 
grasses from Hudson Bay region, 
Canada (168969); 9 plants from 
Canada (169002), 156 plants from 
Mexico and Guatemala (169969) ; 
(through Isaac Ginsburg) 3 fishes 
from Dominican Republic collected 
in 19383 by John C. Armstrong 
(168056); (through A. L. Nelson) 
22 specimens of gastropods from 
Massachusetts (169103); 1 skeleton 
of a longhorn steer (169463); 1 
South American gull (169487); 
(through Dr. D. G. Frey) 76 marine 
mollusks from Chesapeake Bay, 
Md. (169847); (through Lyle An- 
derson) 57 marine invertebrates, 
10 mollusks, 2 echinoderms, and 
15 fishes (169897); 11 feathered 
headdresses and other ornaments 
from the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador 
(169953); (through Dr. John W. 
Aldrich) 13 partial skeletons of 
wild and domestic turkeys, 1 partial 


skeleton of a trumpeter swan 
(170302); skeleton of porpoise 
picked up by otter trawler Mars 
(170373); 1 Italian green wood- 
pecker (170466); (through Dr. S. F. 
Hildebrand) 4 fishes (representing 
4 species) from Punta San Diego, 
Fajardo, Puerto Rico, collected by 
Donald S. Erdman on March 8, 
1945, and in May 1945 (170488). 


Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.: 


4 Pennsylvanian brachiopods from 
New Mexico (167811); about 3,500 
Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossils re- 
ceived from the Chief of Engineers, 
U.S. Army, from the Canol Proj- 
ect, Canada (168127); 20 brachio- 
pods from the Eocene and Cre- 
taceous rocks in well core samples 
from Florida (168242); 100 De- 
vonian fossils from northeastern 
Arizona collected by Dr. J. W. Hud- 
dle (168288); 6 specimens of high- 
iron high-alumina clay from Haney- 
ville, Clinton County, Pa. (168327) ; 
approximately 1,000 Ordovician 
trilobites from the Levis boulders of 
Quebec (168736); 1 specimen of 
siderophyllite from Brooks Moun- 
tain, Seward Peninsula, Alaska 
(168893); 1 specimen of calomel 
(mercury ore) from Mariposa mine, 
Brewster County, Tex. (169373); 
3 collections of vertebrate fossils, 
viz, 30 specimens from Flatiron, 
Elk Creek, near Newcastle, Colo., 
50 Silurian and Devonian speci- 
mens from Arkansas and 25 Ordo- 
vician specimens from Wisconsin 
(169580); about 10,000 specimens 
of Paleozoic fossils from the Ap- 
palachian region and from other 
eastern States, collected by Dr. 
Charles Butts and resulting largely 
from cooperative work with State 
organizations (169690); a specimen 
of lead-zinc ore from Kimberly 
mine, Kokomo district, Summit 
County, Colo. (169754); 34 speci- 
mens of manganiferous and ferrugi- 
nous chert from Perry and Lewis 
Counties, Tenn. (170034); approx- 
imately 200 specimens of fossils, 
ranging in age from Ordovician to 
Devonian, from Virginia and West 
Virginia (170362); approximately 
500 invertebrate fossils, ranging in 
age from Cambrian to Silurian, 
from the Rose Hill area, south- 
western Virginia (170363); 1 speci- 
men of fluorite from San Juan area, 
Ouray County, Colo., presented by 
Mrs. Mary E. McClellan (170455). 


National Park Service, Chicago, Il.: 


(Through Erik K. Reed) Turkey 
bones from archeological sites at = 
Mancos Canyon, Colo, (163335) ; — 


ACCESSIONS 


(through Thomas Boles) 2 cave 
insects collected in Carlsbad Cav- 
erns (167872); 46 plants from 
Grand Canyon National Park, 
Ariz. (168185). 

INTERNATIONAL Business MACHINES 
CorpPoRATION, New York, Sa) ae 
(Through T. J. Watson) p) original 
completely power-operated  type- 
writers, the first of their kind pro- 
duced for commercial service—(1) 
“‘Hlectromatic”’ all electric typewriter, 
Serial No. P-144 and (2) “Inter- 
national Proportional Spacing Ma- 
chine,”’ Serial No. 27559 (169125). 

Iowa STatE CouuEecE, Ames, Iowa: 
61 grasses from Jowa (167990); 
(through Dr. L. D. Tuthill) 6 speci- 
mens of insects, 2 paratypes of each 
(166824, exchange). 

JACKSON, Pror. W. H., Blacksburg, 
Va.: 7 lots of mollusks, 1 lot of 
annelid worms, and 5 lots of crusta- 
ceans (169862). 

JACOBSON, Morris K., Rockaway, 
N. Y.: 156 mollusks from Brank Lake, 
Warren County, N. Y. (169473); 
16 mollusks (169585). 

James, Anita. (See under Eleanor R. 
Binger.) 

JELLISON, Maj. W. L., Hamilton, Mont.: 
15 snakes, 1 frog, and 2 bats from 
near Dibrugarb, Likhampur, India 
(168043); 1,472 insects, including 
beetles, from Montana and Idaho 
(168392, 168475); 3 insects, para- 
types of 2 species (170371). (See also 
under Federal Security Agency, Pub- 
lic Health Service, Hamilton, Mont.) 

JENNINGS, (See under Rhode 
Island Department of Agriculture and 
Conservation.) 

JOHANSEN, Frits, Ottawa, Ontario: 
(Through Dr. Arthur Hasler) Ap- 
proximately 5,000 identified fresh- 
water Crustacea and about 100 
unidentified fresh-water Crustacea 
(168550). 

JoHns Hopkins UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, 

d.: (Through Dr. Berry) 
1 lot of bird bones from Venezuela 
(168026). 

Jounson, Atvin, New York, N. Y.: A 
twinned calcite rhomb from New 
Mexico (168162). 

Jounson, ARTHUR F., Minneapolis, 
Minn.: 4 specimens of old motion- 
picture film, cut from 50-foot reels and 
with bound edges entitled: ‘‘Anna- 
bel,” ‘‘Train,” ‘Circus Parade,” and 
“Comedy” (168954). 

Jounson, Prof. Herter, New Bruns- 
wick, N. J.: 350 Ordovician fossils 
from the St. George and Table Head 
formations of Newfoundland (169811). 

Jounson, Lt. Murray L., Baltimore, 
Md.: A collection of reptiles, am- 


679046—46——_7 


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phibians, fishes, crustaceans, and 
insects from Sierra Leone, Ireland, 
Trinidad, St. Thomas, and Brazil 
(168299). 

JOHNSON, Pauu E., Washington, D. C.: 
Gold finger ring worn by Lt. W. V. 
Riley, U. 8. Army, when killed at the 
battle of the Little Big Horn, June 
25, 1876 (168777). 

JOHNSON, Lt. Raymonp E., Lincoln, 
Nebr.: 1 ,048 fishes collected by donor 
and wife at St. Simons Island and 
vicinity, Ga., together with crusta- 
ceans, tadpoles, and a mollusk (160- 
888) 

JoHnston, Mrs. Dorotuy ELuiorr 
MitcHELL, Washington, D. C.: 16 
bird skins from Central America 
(170112). 

Jounston, Dr. W. D., Jr., Pelican Lake, 
Wis.: 1 aquamarine from Brazil, 
weight 124.94 carats (170403, de- 
posit). 

JoNnES, CHARLES F., Blanchester, Ohio; 
W. Couns, Paris, Tex.; ; and 
RoBERT CARDER, Lost. Creek, W. 
Va.: 1 deer (169086). 

Joyner, Mr. and Mrs. Catvin, Wash- 
ington, D. C.: 16 jade Chinese rings, 
collected in Chungking, China, during 
present war (168537). 

Jupay, Prof. CHaANcEy, Madison, Wis.: 
(Through Dr. Arthur D. Hasler) 6 
lots of plankton from South Dakota 
and Manitoba collected in 1939 
(168549). 

Jupp, Nei M., Washington, D. C.: 
mole collected at Silver Spring, Md. 
(170158). 

JUSSEN, VIRGINIA, Washington, D. C.: 
Dental plate of extinct fish (Miocene, 
Calvert) collected half a mile south 
of Chesapeake Beach, Calvert County, 
Md., 1942 (169516). 

Justice, U.S. DEPARTMENT oF, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Washington, 
D. C.: Incomplete skeleton of adult 
male Negro from South Carolina 
(169682). 

KAINEN, JAcoB, Washington, D. C-.: 
Wood-engraving printed from 4 color- 
blocks depicting a Jewish altar of 
incense (169233). 

KALTENBERGER, L. H., and L. C. 
VerRDuUIN, Washington, D. C.: Skull 
of beaked whale (168396). 

Kansas, UNIVERSITY oF, Lawrence, 
Kans.: (Through Prof. H. B. Hunger- 
ford) 1 bug (168887, exchange). 

KarTMAN, Sgt. Leo, A. P. O., Miami, 
Fla.: 150 mosquitoes from Iran and 
Senegal (168165). 

Kay, Marre Weir, Columbus, Ohio: 
2 types of trematodes (168522, 
168878). 

Kearney, Dr. T. H., San Francisco, 
Calif.; 2 plants from Arizona (168353). 


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KEENAN, JAMES E., Wichita, Kans.: 
808 specimens (30 species) of Ma- 
quoketa Ostracoda from Castlewood 
Station, Mo. (168419). 

Kewttoee, Dr. REemineton, Washing- 
ton, D. C.: 1 pine mouse (168303). 
Kemp, Corp. JAmMrs C. (See under Set. 

Henry E. Allanson, Jr.) 

Kenk, Prof. Roman, Ann Arbor, Mich.: 
Approximately 10 amphipods from 
Michigan (168846). 

Kentucky, University or, Lexington, 
Ky.: 80 plants from Kentucky 
(169479, exchange). 

KERNODLE, GEORGE H., Washington, 
D. C.: An Eli Terry shelf clock, ca. 
1818 (168725, loan); early 19th-cen- 
tury surveyor’s compass marked “‘S. 
Kern, inventor” and “J. A. Danner, 
Maker, Middleton, Va.” (170227, 
loan). 

Kerr, Prof. Paut F., New York, N. Y.: 
A specimen each of tungstite and hy- 
drotungstite from Calacalani, Bolivia 
(168094). 

KissBn, EucENsr, Elsah, ll.: 10 pic- 
torial photographs sent for exhibition 
during the month of November 1944 
(168909, loan) ; 4 pictorial photographs 
(169572). 

KienerR, Dr. Watrer, Lincoln, Nebr.: 
68 grasses from Colorado (169748). 
Kauurp, ExuswortxH P., Washington, 
D. C.: Specimen of bark cloth made 
from inner bark of the fig tree and 
collected in Peru by Guillermo Klug 
in 1931 (168765); 44 plants collected 
in Venezuela by F. Cardona, pur- 
chased from Dr. H. Pittier by Mr. 
Killip (169144); 60 plants from 
Maryland and Virginia (169616). 
(See also under Smithsonian Insti- 

tution, National Museum.) 

Kinparrick, Norman L., Arlington, 
Va.: A late 18th-century ‘‘patriotic”’ 
hempen quilt, combining pieced and 
appliqued work in 9-patch blocks 
and a large center square showing an 
eagle and stars motif, which came 
from the Brown-Francis family home- 
stead at Canterbury, Conn. (168993). 

Kim, YoncsJEUNG, Washington, D. C.: 


Korean national flag  (gook-gi) 
(169781). 
Kinearp, Prof. Trevor. (See under 


University of Washington.) 

Kine, Rosert C., Washington, D. C.: 
Child’s 4-wheeled vehicle (hand-car) 
ca. 1900, used by the donor as a child 
(170052). 

Kine, Dr. Ropert E., Denver, Colo.: 
19 Permian brachiopods from the 
San Andres limestone of New Mexico 
(168474). 

Kine, Dr. W. V., Fort MacPherson, 
Ga.: 72 adults and pupae of mos- 
quitoes from New Guinea and Aus- 
tralia (169104). 


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Kinzer, CHARLES WILuIAM, Green- 
belt, Md.: A model of Simplex car 
couplers (pair) and a model of a 
Dunn car coupler (169717, loan). 

KIPLINGER WASHINGTON AGENCY, 
Washington, D. C.: (Through W. M. 
Kiplinger) Group of bronze statuettes 
(48 specimens) of notable public 
men, entitled ‘“‘The Living Hall of 
Washington, 1944’? (167812). 

Kirk, Dr. Epwin, Washington, D. C.: 
12 etchings by various artists (169298) 

Kuirprer, Mrs. Lron, Lock Haven, Pa.: 
A walking staff of Dr. A. T. Still, 
founder of osteopathy, owned by the 
late Dr. Harry M. Vastine, Harris- 
burg, Pa., uncle of the donor (169907). 
(See also under Estate of Dr. Harry 
M. Vastine.) 

Ktoss, Mrs. Gmnzg, Oakland, Calif.: 34 
etchings by Gene Kloss, for special 
exhibition from February 12 through 
March 11, 1945 (169541, loan); 1 
aquatint with drypoint combination, 
“‘Church of the Storm Country,” by 
Gene Kloss (170056). 

Knicut, Dr. J. BRookres, Washington, 
D. C.: 5 specimens of a Pennsylvan- 
ian gastropod from the vicinity of 
St. Louis including 1 figured speci- 
men (169900). 

Knicut, Lt. Kenneru L., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: A small col- 
lection of miscellaneous insects from 
Guadalcanal, including holotype, al- 
lotype, and 10 paratypes of 1 species 
of mosquito (1694383); 17 specimens 
of mosquito material; 6 pinned 
adults including 2 holotypes, 1 allo- 
type, 3 paratypes, 10 slides larval 
and pupal skins, 1 slide of genitalia 
(170504). 

Kocu, Waurer H., Salt Lake City, 
Utah: 1 specimen of kermesite on 
stibnite from Triumph mine near 
Hailey, Idaho (169549, exchange). 

Konus, Maj. Gupn M. (See under Fed- 
eral Security Agency, Public Health 
Service, Hamilton, Mont., and under 
United States of America Typhus 
Commission.) 

Komp, Lt. Col. W. H. W., Ancon, 
Canal Zone: (Through Dr, J. P. E. 
Morrison) 35 land and fresh-water 
snails from Venezuela (1688238); 4 
ants from Canal Zone and 1 antlike 
spider from Colombia, collected by 
donor (170374). 

Korrr, Serae A., New York, N. Y.: 
6 postage stamps of Peru and the 
United States (169812). 

Kosco, Comdr. Grorae F., Tooele, 
Utah: 9 earthenware figurine heads 
from a site on the Orinoco River at 
Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela (168542). 


Kovarix, ANTHONY, Circle, Mont.: 
(Through Joseph J. Cerny) A Bohe- 


ACCESSIONS 


mian silver coin struck about A. D. 1300 
(169609). 

Krauss, N. L., Honolulu, Hawaii: 59 
isopods, 5 amphipods, 2 earthworms, 
and 1 scorpion (167781). 

KRIMKE, JEROME P., South Orange, 
N. J.: 40 pictorial photographs for 
special exhibition during October 1944 
(168672, loan). 

Kumm, Dr. Henry W., New York, 
N. Y.: 95 mosquitoes, representing 
11 species and including type and 
allotype of 2 species (167923). 


Kuntz, Lt. Gg) Ropert E., F. P. O., | 


San Francisco, Calif.: 84 fishes and 
1 crustacean (168310) 

KuscHEL, P. GvUILLERMO, 
Chile: 122 beetles (170046). 

Kuster, Prof. K. C., Bloomsburg, Pa.: 5 
weevils collected in Pennsylvania 
(167688). 

LamBros, Acetca, Washington, D. C.: 
1 fish collected in 1987 on White 
Cloud Mountain near Canton, China 
(168840). 

Lamm, Donaup W., A. P. O., Miami, 
Fla.: 62 bird skins from Brazil (168729, 
169338, 170224). 

Lanpo, Ensign Roper Ents, F. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 83 marine 
shells, 4 starfishes, crabs, and insects 
(168218); 75 shells and some insects 
from southwest Pacific (169180); 
about 200 mollusks from the east New 
Guinea area, 1 coral, and a starfish 
(1693818). 

Larery, Atice M., Washington, D. C.: 
1 plant from District of Columbia 
(168669). 

LARRABEE, D. M. (See under A. Renato 
Semola.) 

LARRABEE, Harvey H., Jackson, Mich.: 
Model of a Seagrave fire engine, ca. 
1942 (167307). 

LeGrand, Dr. Dirgo. (See under 
Museo de Historia Natural.) 

Lon, Rev. Brother, Habana, Cuba: 
96 orchids from Cuba (167947, ex- 
change) ;134plantsfrom Cuba (168583, 
168717, 168979); 20 grasses from 
Cuba (169475). 

Lronarp, E. C., Washington, D. C.: 
125 plants, mostly from Maryland 
(169182). 

Levi-Castitto, Dr. Roperto, Guaya- 
quil, Ecuador: 5 specimens of mos- 
quito material, comprising male and 
female types, 2 larval and 1 pupal 
skin of a new species (169996); 2 
vials of mosquito eggs from Ecuador 
(170296). 

Lewis, Mrs. W. Lzs, Evanston, IIL: 

mahogany case containing speci- 
mens of lewisite (American mustard 
gas, or ‘‘blister gas’’) and derivatives, 
prepared by Maj. H. W. Stiegler for 
use by Col. W. Lee Lewis, who first 


Santiago, 


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isolated and developed lewisite 
(170140). 

Lrewton, Mrs. BuancHEe C., Takoma 
Park, Md.: 31 study samples of rep- 
resentative rayon fabrics, made for 
the spring and summer of 1943, iden- 
tified as to name, weave, material, 
use, and source (168224). 

LewTon, Dr. F. L. (See under J. D. 
Beggs.) 

Lryva, Carxtos J., Pluma Hidalgo, 
Mexico: 6 specimens and 1 box of 
seeds of plants from Mexico (168338, 
170226); 5 photographs of a plant 
(169797). 

Linpsey, Prof. Atton A., Albuquerque, 
N. Mex.: 1 wood rat and 2 white- 
footed mice from New Mexico (169936) ; 
4 ferns from New Mexico (169937). 

ListE CORPORATION, Clarinda, Iowa: 
14 magnetic crankcase drain plugs 
(170506). 

Luoyp, Ropmrt H. (See under Ameri- 
can Numismatic Association.) 

LockuIn, CHarues R., Detroit, Mich.: 
39 fresh-water shells from Union 
Lake, near Pontiac, Mich. (168472); 
8 fossil oystershells (170522). 

Louisiana Stats University, Baton 
Rouge, lLa.: Alga from Louisiana 
(168713). 

Louttirt, W. Easton, Jr., Providence, 
R. I.: A monocycle (incomplete) of 
period of 1869 (161728). 

LOVELAND, JOHN WINTHROP (deceased), 
Washington, D. C.: Built-up scale 
model of the yacht Ariel (168987, 
bequest). 

Lucas, Paut, Sanford, N. C.: 12 models 
comprising a set of miniature flour 
mill machinery, also 11 pairs of ele- 
vator boots and head and 500 ele- 
vator cups all made to the same scale 
as the models (168971, loan). 

Lyncu, Prof. Jamzs E., Seattle, Wash.: 
te oie 330 amphipods (167- 
957). 


LyYonnet, Prof. Pierre, Saltillo, Mexi- 
co: 576 plants from Mexico (167846). 

MacCrerary, Lt. Comdr. Dona.p. 
(See under Navy Department, Na- 
tional Naval Medical School.) 

Manan, JoHn G. (See under Univer- 
sity of Virginia, Miller School of 
Biology.) 

Manieux, Pierre, Santa Rosalia, Baja 
California: (Through Ivan F. Wilson) 
8 specimens of minerals and copper 
ores from Santa Rosalia (166526), 

Maint, UNIvERsitTy or, Orono, Maine: 
63 plants from Maine (169763, ex- 
change). 

Mauxin, Pfc. Borys, A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: A collection of mis- 
cellaneous insects, centipedes, frogs, 
lizards, from Dutch New Guinea and 
Australia (169703); a collection of 


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miscellaneous insects from Australia 
by the donor (170082); a collection of 
miscellaneous insects from Dutch 
New Guinea (170460). 

MALKIN, Sotomon, Washington, D. C.: 
An Edison Amberola (phonograph), 
Serial No. 20, and 1 cylindrical blue 

“Who’’ 


wax record No. 3130, 
(168268). 
Matuery, Capt. A. H., Columbus, 
Ohio: Ethnological specimens from 


the Melanesian village of Kala on 
Hood Bay, New Guinea (169816). 

ManiroiD, C. B., Washington, D. C.: 
(Through Department of Agricul- 
ture, Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine) 1 beetle from the 
Bayano region in Panama (168589). 

Mann, Dr. Wiii1aAm M., Washington, 
D. C.: 2 ceremonial staffs and 1 
wooden club from Rennel Island, 
Solomon Archipelago, collected by 
the donor (168616). 


Martz, Rev. Father Louis, Quebec, 
Quebec: 75 grasses from Canada 
(169496). 


MARSHALL, ERNneEstT, Laurel Md.: 2 
woodchucks, 1 gray fox, 1 skunk, 1 
mink, and 17 muskrats (168773). 

MarsHaut, Prof. Neruson, Storrs, 
Conn.: 14 amphipods (169286). 

MARSHALL, WILLIAM B., Washington, 
D. C.: Specimen of 4-lobed sassafras 
leaves (167877); 32 plants from New 
Jersey (168077, 168125); 4 plants 
from Washington, D. C. (168668). 

Martin, GLENN J., Washington, D. C.: 
1 photomechanical reproduction of a 
painting by George Hitchcock, pro- 
duced by the Detroit Photographic Co 
in 1902 by a special process (168631). 

Martinez, Prof. Maximo, Mexico, D. 
F.: 108 plants from Mexico (170114, 
170420). 

Martinez A., Juan, Montevideo, Uru- 
guay: 16 fishes from Uruguay (168960). 

Marvin, KATHERINE M., Lancaster, 
Mass.: A_ collection of matting, 
basketry, fish nets, and personal orna- 
ments and a small collection of shells 
made by the donor’s sister, Mary 
Marvin, in Micronesia (167619). 

Maxon, Dr. Witi1am R., Washington, 
D. C.: 13 plants from Washington, 
D. C. (168305, 168618). 

Mayer, James, Baltimore, Md.: 
(Through John Coyle) Steam-oper- 
ated working model of mine hoisting 
engine and working model of coal- 
fired vertical steam boiler (170012). 

MayFIELpD, Rev. Watxer, Bethesda, 
Md.: 2 specimens of ante-bellum 
homespun and a Jinen sheet and a 
cotton and wool blanket handwoven 
by Mrs. Susan (Moody) Hewett, 
Green Hill, Warren County, Ky., 
mother of Mrs. Walker Mayfield 
(170380). 


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McA.tEstTER, R. F., Columbus, Ohio: 
1 specimen of mareasite from south of 
Stratford, Delaware County, Ohio 
(168901). 

McCann, T. F., Denver, Colo.: 353 
mollusks from’ the canyon of the 
Yampa River, Colo. (168759). 

McCray, ARTHUR, Sacramento, Calif.: 
5 beetles (169292). 

McCuvurez, Dr. F. A., Washington, D. 
C.: 4 plants from Washington, eC: 
(167989) ; approximately 60 miscel- 
laneous insects collected from bam- 
boo (168394). (See also under Stand- 
ard Brush & Broom Co. and U. 8. 
Department of Agriculture.) 

McCrary, O. F., Raleigh, N. C.: 1 ecul- 
tivated plant from North Carolina 
(168604). 

McDonatp, Pfe. Epwarp D., Cleve- 
land, Ohio: 5 plants from the Aleutian 
Islands (167890); 385 plants from 
Italy (169805). 

McGinty, THomas L., Boynton, Fla.: 
70 marine shells from Florida 
(168065) ; 8 mollusks and 1 crustacean 
(168608, 170184). 

McGurrin, Frank L., Washington, D. 
C.: 8 specimens illustrating printing 
and processing of photographs on 
Ansco color paper (1682038, loan); 
6 Ansco Printon enlargements from 
4 by 5 Kodachromes (169910). 

McGusty, Dr. V. W. JT., Suva, Fiji: 
Model of a sea-going outrigger canoe, 
baurau, complete with mast, mat sail, 
and gear, made about 1940 by a 
Gilbertese man of Tarawa Island 
(168569). 

McMituen, Pfe. Jack R., A. P. O., 
New York, N. Y.: 38 insects (169611): 
126 plants from Burma (169917, 
170264). 

McVauecu, Dr. Roarrs. (See. under 
U. §S. Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Plant Industry.) 

Meap, Hon. JAmzs M. (See under Mrs. 
Helen Slater Ramsay.) 

Mearns, Estate of Epcar A.: 1 Pocket 
Poco camera, 1 metal plate holder, 
1 leather carrying case (167990). 

Mepicau SociErTy OF THE DISTRICT OF 
CoLuMBIA, Washington, C.: 
(Through Theodore Wiprud) Portrait 
of Robert Morris, 1734-1806 (169467). 

MeENzEL, R. Winston, Yorktown, Va.: 
2 fishes taken in the Chickahominy 
River (168603); 6 catfishes from the 
James River, Va. (168982). 

MERRIMAN, Dr. Danieu. (See under 
Yale University, Bingham Oceano- 
graphic Laboratory.) 

Messic, Bren, Los Angeles, Calif.: 2 
lithographs, “The Pitchman’” and 
“Two Laborers,” by the donor 
(168058). 

METROPOLITAN 
c1L, Forest Hills, N. 


CAMERA CLUB CoUN- 
Y.: 87 salon 


ACCESSIONS 


prints from special exhibition from 
January 9 to 31, 1945, inclusive 
(169321, loan). 

Mryer, Maj. Gen. Grorce R., A. P. 
O., New Orleans, La.: Nest of a swift 
from Panama (169569). 

Meyer, Capt. M. C., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 90 marine inverte- 
brates, 37 echinoderms, 89 mollusks, 
1 coral, 13 parasitic worms, 14 in- 
sects, 1 calcareous alga, 1 reptile, 
and 380 fishes (169081). 

MicHagEL, ArtHuR. (See under Smith- 
sonian Institution.) 

Micuican, University or, Ann Arbor, 
Mich.: 1 plant from Kiska Island, 
Alaska (167896); 480 mosses from 
Puerto Rico (169297); 564 plants 


from Hongkong (169571); 245 
plants from Arizona (170040, ex- 
change). 


Botanical Garden: 95 ferns collected 
in Mexico by Jose V. Santos 
(169889); 272 grasses collected by 
Jose V. Santos in Mexico (169942). 

Museum of Zoology: 21 fishes from 
Mexico and Minnesota (169998, 
exchange). 

MicxEt, Dr. CLARENCE EH. 

University of Minnesota.) 

Mites, Crcit, Mariquita, Colombia: 

4 fishes from Colombia (168484, 

169122). 

Miuuer, Prof. Atpren H. 

University of California, 

of Vertebrate Zoology.) 


(See under 


(See under 
Museum 


Mitier, Lt. Epwin V., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 1 beetle 
(169784). 


MiuieR, Gerrit §8., Jr., Washington, 
D. C.: 2 box turtles, 1 bird, 8 mam- 
mals, 10 reptiles, 12 amphibians, and 
214 plants from the vicinity of Gat- 
linburg, Tenn. (168805, 168952); 1 


flying squirrel and 1 chipmunk 
(170547). 
Mituer, Prof. Love Houmezs, Los 


Angeles, Calif.: (Through Dr. Carl 
L. Hubbs) 22 minnows from Syca- 
more Canyon, southern Arizona 
(168907). 

MiuuER, Raupa G., Los Angeles, Calif.: 
763 experimentally raised fishes from 
Salton Sea and Death Valley region, 
reared in Los Angeles, Calif. (168671). 

Miuier, Lt. RicHarp G., Los Angeles, 
Calif.: 8 young lizards and some un- 
hatched lizard eggs from Makin 
Atoll, Gilbert Islands, collected by 
the donor (168535). 

MiuuteR, Water §., Altoona, Pa.: 7 
snakes, 2 lizards, 5 lots of tadpoles, 2 
frogs and a small lot of insects from 
Oaxaca, Mexico (167195). 

Mitts, Dr. H. B. (See under Federal 
Security Agency, Public Health Sery- 
ice, Hamilton, Mont.) 


OF 


MINNESOTA, UNIVERSITY OF, St. Paul, 
Minn.: (Through Dr. Clarence E. 
Mickel) 6 beetles (169293). 

Minoauk, Lt. James A., Alexandria, 
Va.: Stone ax found at Fish Lake 
about 25 miles northwest of Duluth, 
Minn. (168748). 


Missournt BotanicaAL GARDEN, St. 
Louis, Mo.: 48 grasses (168621, 
exchange). 


Mirman, Cari W., Washington, D. C.: 
1 camera shutter and 1 camera lens 
(168110). 

Mo.upEnk#, Dr. Haroun N., New York, 
N. Y.: 10 plants from Pennsylvania 
(168123, 168590). 

MonraGubE, JErrry, G. A., Gloucester, 
Va.: Quartzite blade taken from an 
oyster bed in the Ware River, near 
Ware Neck, Gloucester County, Va. 
(168880). 

Monte, Dr. Oscar, S40 Paulo, Brazil: 
25 miscellaneous insects (169753). 


MontecomerRy, JoHn D., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.; 1 beetle 
(169591). 

Moore, Dr. Ritry D. (See under 


Estate of Dr. Harry M. Vastine.) 
Moore, Rosert T., Pasadena, Calif.: 
1 bird skin (168524). 
MoreEELL, Admiral G. 
Navy Department.) 
Morenouse, Pvt. Ropert C., A. P. 
O., Seattle, Wash.: 98 plants from 
the Aleutian Islands (168520, 168859). 

Morin, Prof. Cuaupio V. PAveETTti, 
Ann Arbor, Mich.: 9 grasses from 
Paraguay (169918). 

Morrison, Dr. J. P. E., Washington, 
D. C.: 6,857 American mollusks col- 
lected in Indiana, Michigan, [linois, 
Wisconsin, Kentucky, etec., during 
the years 1921 to 1934 (169355); 2 
bats from near Fairfax, Va. (170050). 
(See also under Capt. Graham Fair- 
child; Col. W. H. W. Komp; Smith- 


(See under 


sonian Institution; Kay L. Thur- 
man; and Dr. James Zetek.) 
Morrison, Micoart P. E., Falls 


Church, Va.: 5 fishes and 2 crusta- 
ceans from near Falls Church (169938). 


Morrison, Lt. Ray E., Washington, 
D. C.: 3,370 marine shells from the 
Gilbert, Ellice, Phoenix, and 
Hawaiian Islands, as well as from 
Florida, and a few echinoderms and 
other marine invertebrates (170136); 
6 recent shells and 20 fossil (Miocene) 
shells from 1 mile south of Chesa- 
peake Beach, Md. (170424). 


Morsst, Mrs. D. C., Solomons, Md.: 
8 bottles of diatom plankton (170565). 

Mounts, W. W., Washington, D. C.: 
An automobile duster (coat) (169060). 

Muuuiean, W. F., Berwyn, Md.: 1 
nest of a parula warbler (170452). 


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Munro, J. A., Okanagan Landing, 
British Columbia: 148 fresh-water 
mollusks from British Columbia 
(168497); 8 amphipods (169627). 

MuNROE, KaTHERINE, Washington, D. 
C.: A chief’s ceremonial fan from the 
Marquesas Islands and a feather 
ornament from northern South Amer- 
ica, collected by Thomas Adamson, 
grandfather of the donor, about 1900 
(168807). 

Murray, S/Set. E. K., A. P. O., New 
York, N. Y.: 32 insects (168978). 

Murray, Rev. J. J., Lexington, Va.: 
3 birds (168249); 1 skin of a shrike 
(168755). 

Museo DE Historra Naturat, Monte- 
video, Uruguay: (Through Dr. Diego 
LeGrand) 19 plants from Uruguay 
(160496). 

MusEo DE LA Puata, La Plata, Argen- 
tina: (Through Dr. Angel L. Cab- 
rera) 100 grasses from Argentina 
(168348), 100 photographs of types of 
plants in the Herbario Apegazzini 
(168400, exchange). 

Myers, FE. A., & Sons, Mount Leb- 
anon, Pa.: 2 radioear vacuum-tube 
hearing sets, Nos. 16854 and 13664 
(168425). 

Myers, Prof. Grorae 8. 
Stanford University.) 
Nasir, Set. Ep. B., A. P. O., San Fran- 
cisco, Calif.: A Philippine ‘‘Victory”’ 
stamp on cover and a Philippine 
‘Victory’? postcard, also 21 pieces of 
Japanese paper currency printed for 
circulation in the Philippine Islands 
(169865); U. S. airmail envelope, 
cover bearing 7 Philippine stamps and 
25 Japanese 5-centavo stamps issued 
for use in the Philippine Islands dur- 
ing Japanese occupation (83 speci- 

mens) (170462). 

NatTionaL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN 
Artists, Inc., New York, N. Y.: 31 
drawings and prints constituting the 
Association’s traveling exhibition of 
blacks and whites (168200, loan). 

National GEOGRAPHIC Society, Wash- 
ington, D. C.: (Through the Carnegie 
Museum) 88 amphibians and reptiles 
from Venezuela collected by the Na- 
tional Geographic Society—Carnegie 
Museum Venezuelan Expedition, 
1928-29 (170220). 

NationaL MusEum oF Canapa, De- 
pariment of Mines and Resources, 


(See under 


Ottawa, Ontario: 2 grasses from 
Yukon (170001, exchange). 
NATIONAL PHoToGRAPHIC SOCIETY, 


Wasbington, D. C.: 92 pictorial photo- 
graphs, Third Annual Salon, Sep- 
tember 1-30, 1944 (168632, loan). 

NATIONAL ResEarcH CounciL, Wash- 
inston, -D.,..Ca>, (Threugh, Dr. W.. 
Mansfield Clark) 1 plant from China 
(170228). 


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NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL Socrery, 
Washington, D. C.: (Through J. 8. 
Petrie) 1 dog skull, some insects, and 
1 plant (168442). 

Navy DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C.: 
(Through Admiral G. Moreell) 99 
original illustrations, published in 
‘‘Native Woods for Construction 
Purposes in the Western Pacific 
Region,’ revised edition, 1944 
(169700, deposit) ; 4 rats, forwarded 
by Ensign C. D. Tolman from the 
Marianas (170352); 11 albino rats 
and mice (170518). 

Bureau of Ships, Washington, D. C.: 
12 United States ensigns and 1 
pennant flown on United States 
naval vessels during battles in the 
southwest Pacific Ocean and the 
Mediterranean Sea, 1942-43 
(169309, deposit). 

National Naval Medical School, Beth- 
esda, Md.: 5 rats from the Marshall 
Islands (168000); (through Lt. 
Comdr. Donald MacCreary) 26 in- 
sects, 3 lizards, and 1 bat (168238) ; 
10 balanoglossids and 149 fishes 
from Saipan, Marianas Islands 
(168515); 114 skins and 137 skulls 
of rats and mice (168596) ; 104 skins 
and skulls of rats and mice (168651) ; 
1 squilla, 32 mammals, 4 birds (2 
skins and 2 skulls), 90 rats, 44 liz- 
ards, 18 snakes, 25 frogs, and 11 
mice (168733, 169039, 169502, 
169604, 169806, 170059); 7 mol- 
lusks from Tinian, Marianas Is- 
lands (168822); 15 rats, forwarded 
by Officer-in-Charge, Rodent Con- 
trol, Navy 140, Base Hospital No. 6 
(168837) ; 54 mollusks from Tinian, 
Marianas Islands (169128, ex- 
change); 110 mollusks from Samar, 
Philippine Islands (169491); 1 rat 
collected on island of Moesi, in 
Padaido Islands, Shouten Island 
group near Biak, Dutch New 
Guinea, November 2, 1944 (169606) ; 
30 fresh-water snails and 11 
rats from the Philippines (169921, 
170543); about 285 mollusks from 
Okinawa (170568). 

Naval Medical Research Unit #2: 89 
mollusks and 9 reptiles from Saipan 
(168516); 85 crustaceans, 5 holo- 
thurians, 1 ophiuran, 42 fishes, 8 
marine shells, 47 mammals, 167 
reptiles and batrachians, and 9 
insects from Solomon Islands 
(168638) ; 29 bird skins, 1 nest, and 
1 set of eggs; 26 skins and 28 
skulls of mammals (168753); 12 
shrimps, 2 crabs, 1 sponge, 2 birds, 
1 fish, 326 reptiles and amphibians, 
48 mollusks, fragment of cestode, 7 
mammals in alcohol, 4 sea-urchins, 
45 insects, from Bougainville, Solo- 
mon Islands (168766); 99 mam- 


ACCESSIONS 


99 


mals, consisting of 74 skins, 1 skele- ; Norta Daxorta, UNIVERSITY oF, Grand 


ton, and 23 in alcohol; 107 bird 
skins, 1 bird skeleton, 1 bird in 
alcohol; 100 reptiles, 1 amphibian, 
and 2 plants from Bougainville 
Island (168946). 

Office of Naval Operations, Washing- 
ton, D. C.: Photostatic copies of 
U.S. Military Government Procla- 
mations Nos. 1-5 and notices on 
firearms and curfew for the Marshall 
Islands, printed in English and 
Japanese (7 specimens) (167864). 

U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, 
Fla.: (Through Lt. (jg) Frank 
Craighead) 1 pelican (167777). 

Neat, G. Morety, Toronto, Ontario: 
11 slides of a rotifer (163699). 

NEBRASKA, UNiversity oF, Lincoln, 
Nebr.: (Through Dr. H. D. Tate) 
paratype of insect (168747, exchange). 

NEBRASKA STATE HisToRIcAL SOCIETY. 
(See under Work Projects Adminis- 
tration.) 

NEIMAN, JACK, Jr., Gatlinburg, Tenn.: 
1 model gasoline aircraft engine, 
“Atom” (168842). 

Netson, A. L. (See under U. S. 
Department of the Interior, Fish and 
Wildlife Service.) 

Neuson, Prof. CuHartes D., Grand 
Rapids, Mich.: 4 fresh-water shells 
from Lower Brower Lake, Mich. 
(169922). 

Neuson, Lt. Comdr. CuHarites M., 
F. P. O., San Francisco, Calif.: 83 
marine shells from the Marianas 
(169932). 

Nespitt, Dr. H. H. J. (See under 
Canadian Government, Department 
of Agriculture.) 


Neurone, Corp. Ginpert. (See under 
Corp. Frederick M. Bayer.) 


New York BoranicaL GARDEN, New 
York, N. Y.: 10 photographs of 
type specimens of plants (168307); 
141 plants from British Guiana and 
Surinam (169261, 170120, 170200); 
497 plants from the western United 
States (169762, exchange). 


NicHouson, T 5 A. H., A. P. O., San 


Francisco, Calif. (See under War 
Department, Army Medical Mu- 
seum.) 


NickeL, FRANK F., Maplewood, N. J.: 
(Through Henry W. Nickel) Thatcher 
slide rule of about 1883 (169701). 

NickEL, Henry W. (See under Frank 
F. Nickel.) 


Nosz., Erset V., Indianapolis, Ind.: 
Blue and white, cotton and wool, 
double-weave jacquard coverlet in 
modified ‘‘Lilies and Stars” pattern, 
handwoven in 1838 at Bethany, 
Genesee County, N. Y., for B. 
Vaneps (168536). 


Forks, N. Dak.: (Through Prof. Neal 
A. Weber) 5 insects, comprising 4 
larvae and 1 pupa (169028). @ ig 

NortHrop, Prof. Stuart A., Albu- 
querque, N. Mex.: 4 type specimens 
of nautiloid cephalopods from the 
lower Permian, Chupadera formation 
of New Mexico (170377). 

NyYLAND, VINCENT, Patuxent, Va.: A 
Perkins kite, modification of the 
original Conyne design employed 
during World War I for elevating the 
radio aerials (169061). 

Oxrtman, P. H., Cincinnati, Ohio: 30 
pictorial photographs for special ex- 
hibition during March 1945 (169818, 
loan). 

OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION, Wash- 
ington, D. C.: 19 war posters, 15 
duplicates (167949). 

OriciNA FITosANITARIA, Martinez de 
la Terre, Veracruz: 31 leaf bugs of 
the family Miridae (169836). 

OumstepD, Dr. A. J., Washington, D.C.: 
1 folding dark-room lamp made for 
travelers and designed to burn 
candles, 1890 (168555). 

Otson, Pvt. Hueco L., A. P. O., New 
York, N. Y.: 2 praying mantes 
(168728). 

Ousson, Dr. A. A., Gloversville, N. Y.: 
Tertiary larger Foraminifera from 
Panama, Colombia, Peru, and Ecua- 
dor (168931). 

O’Nertt, Rev. Hueu. (See under 
Catholic University of America.) 

ORcHARD, C. O., San Antonio, Tex.: 6 
marine shells and a collection of 
beetles from New Guinea (170024). 

Orcutt, C. R., San Diego, Calif.: 179 
mosses from Jamaica (112574); 275 
plants from Jamaica (112575). 

OREGON StTaTE CoLuEGE, Talent, Oreg.: 
3 beetles (169294). 

Orr, Dr. Ropert T. (See under Cali- 
fornia Academy of Sciences.) 

Ossporn, Bren, Glen Rose, Tex.: 162 
plants from Oklahoma, Kansas, Ne- 
braska, and adjacent States (158387, 
169224), 

Ossporn, Mary, Park Ridge, IIL: 
Pharyngeal bone of a drumfish from 
Chesapeake Beach, Md. (168096). 

Ororya, Francisco J. (See under In- 
stituto de Ciencias Naturales.) 

OwrEN, Capt. WiiuramM B., A. P. O,, 
San Francisco, Calif.: 73 mosquitoes 
comprising 1 holotype, 72 paratypes 
(170037). 

Owens, E. F., Yoakum, Tex.: 171 
grasses from Texas (168718, 168978, 
exchange). 

Pan AMERICAN SANITARY BUREAU, 
Washington, D. C.: 6 rats collected 
in Antioquia, Colombia, by Dr. J. A. 
Montoya (168237). (See also under 
Dr. Raymond Gilmore.) 


100 


Pariopi, Dr. Lorenzo R., Buenos 
Aires, Argentina: 30 erasses from 
Argentina (168192, 169358, exchange). 

Parry, ALYCE, Washington, De yest 
scarlet tanager (170345). 

Pasxow, H. M. (See under William 
V. Schmidt Co.) 

Paonius; “ht Jee Ps Os San 
Francisco, Calif.: 611 insects, com- 
prising 531 adults, 66 larvae, and 1 
pupal skin of mosquitoes, and 12 
camel crickets collected in the Phil- 
ippine Islands (170545). 

PayNnr, HELEN R., Washington, D. C.: 
Woolen quilt, pieced in a star and 
diamond pattern of 1A-inch hexagon 
patches ornamented with wool-em- 
broidered rose and grape designs, 
made between 1825 and 1830 at 
Independence, Mo., by Mrs. Mary 
Modie (168994, loan). 

Praspopy, THomas A., deceased, Fort 
Wayne, Ind.: An Oldsmobile auto- 
mobile, 1902 (167743, bequest). 

Pearse, Dr. A. S. (See under A. M. 
Proctor.) 

PrELaEz, Dr. D., Mexico, D. F.: 6 bugs 
(167942). 

PENHALLOW, Dr. DuNLAP PEARCE, 
Washington, D. C.: A mounted moose 
head from New Brunswick, collected 
1890-1900 (168302). 

Prnn, Lt. Grorcr H., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 8 crabs, 1 shrimp, 
28 hermit crabs, 1 sipunculid, rep- 
tiles, mollusks, centipede, and insects, 
1 fish (168218); 7 crustaceans, 5 
reptiles, 2 frogs, 28 fishes, 2 insects, 
and 28 mollusks collected at Milne 
Bay, New Guinea (168551); a collec- 
tion of natural-history material com- 
prising crustaceans, worms, insects, 
45 marine shells, echinoderms, 4 
lizards, 4 snakes, 1 frog, and 23 fishes 
(168813); miscellaneous natural-his- 
tory specimens (168977); 290 marine 
invertebrates, 100 insects, 600 mol- 
lusks, 14 reptiles, and 1 fish from the 
Philippines (169655). 

PENNSYLVANIA StTatTE CouueGe, State 
College, Pa.: 4 grasses from Pennsyl- 
vania (169664, exchange). 

Prrry, Dr. STUART H., Adrian, Mich.: 
1 specimen of the Odessa, Ector 
County, Tex., meteorite (168698). 

Prerryeo, W. M., Washington, D. C.: 
13 birds (warblers, thrushes, starlings, 
and woodpeckers) (170189). 

Peterson, Atice V., Washington, D. 
C.: 1 white-throated sparrow (170300) 


Prerriz, J. S. (See under National 
Speleological Society.) 
Prouu, Louis. (See under Design 


Center, Inc.) 

Pair, A. W. A., Lillooet, British 
Columbia: Small collection of insects 
(167784). 


REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 


1945 


PHELPs, Capt. AttaAn W., A. P. O,, 
San Francisco, Calif.: Basalt adz col- 
lected from a shell hole on Saipan 


(168818). 
PHELPS, CHARLES BLANCHARD, JF., 
Grosse Point, Mich.: 40 pictorial 


photographs for exhibition in May 
1945 (170142). 
PHeurs, WiitiAM H., New “York, 
N. Y.: 8 bird skins (167927, 168258, 
168426, exchange). 
PHILLIPS, Prof. WALTER §8. 
University of Arizona.) 
PHoToGRAPHIC SociETyY OF AMERICA, 
Buffalo, N. Y.: 106 salon prints for 
special exhibition during August 1944 
(168201, loan). 
Pickens, Prof. A. L., Clinton, 8. C.: 
1 plant (fungus) (168186). 
PICKERELL, Capt. D. A., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 1 moth collected 
in Dutch New Guinea (170065); 28 
insects and spiders (170254). 
PickrorD, Dr. Grace E., New Haven, 
Conn.: 21 beetles, representing 11 
species (170563, exchange). 
Piri, WaLTER, Rehoboth Beach, Del.: 
Mollusk from Delaware (169166). 


(See under 


ee: Dr. Bottvar, Mexico, 

F.: 3 cave beetles from Mexico 
(167913) 

Pitta, Euperp1o. (See under A. Renato 
Semola.) 


Pirtier, Dr. H., Caracas, Venezuela: 
137 plants collected in Venezuela by 
T. Lasser (169148). 

PLUMMER, Dr. C., Mexico, D. F.: 
10 specimens of Homoptera, including 
holotypes of 3 species (166765). 

PoptiaGuiIn, Dr. B., Asuncién, Para- 

guay: 46 beetles (168105, exchange) ; 
3 birds (168198). 

Poouz, Mrs. MarauERite, Washington, 
D. C.: 1 cultivated plant (168950). 

Post, Joun C., Takoma Park, Md.: 
1 sharp-shinned hawk (169678). 

Post OrricE DEPARTMENT, Washing- 
On, ey C2 OLS postage stamps 
received from the International Bu- 
reau of the Universal Postal Union 
and described in the bulletins of the 
Bureau (167857, 168148, 169443, 
170030, 170072, 170207) ; 61 postage 
stamps and 4 post cards received 
from the Postal Administration of 
Great Britain (167857, 168503, 168- 
948, 169077, 170030, 170396) ; 9 post- 
age stamps from the Royal ’Nether- 
lands Government at London 
(167857); Spanish double-barreled 
pistol made about 1850 ee 
48 postage stamps of the U.S. 8S. 
received from the Soviet Postal Union 
(169077); 2 booklets (180 specimens) 
of postage stamps issued by the Allied 
Military Government for use in Italy 
and Germany, received by the Post 


ACCESSIONS 


Office Department from the Treas- 
ury Department (169448); 3 copies 
of United States 8-cent airmail stamp 
(169849); 24 United States postage 
stamps issued in 1944 (169159); 3 
3-cent Florida Commemorative post- 
age stamps (170031); 3 copies of the 
United States 5-cent United Nations 
Conference Commemorative stamp 
(170459). 

Potter, Prof. Davip, Worcester, Mass.: 
1 grass from Massachusetts (169948). 

Potzcer, Dr. J. E., Indianapolis, Ind.: 
5 plants from Indiana (168198). 
(See also under Butler University.) 

Powers, Prof. Epwin B., Knoxville, 
Tenn.: Approximately 50 parasitic 
copepods (167671). 

Pratt, Harry D. (See under Federal 
Security Agency, Public Health Serv- 
ice, San Juan, Puerto Rico.) 

Pratt, Heven S8., Eagle Rock, Calif.: 
54 plants from California (169955). 

Pratt, Dr. Ivan, Wilson Dam, Ala.: 
3 phyllopods from Limestone County, 
Ala. (168206). 

Price, Sgt. Donaup H., Fort Miles, 
Del.: 1 leopard frog from Fort Miles, 
(170255). 

Prince, F. M. (See under Federal 
Security Agency, Public Health Serv- 
ice, San Francisco, Calif.) 

Proctor, A. M., Durham, N. C.:: 
(Through Dr. A. 8. Pearse) 1 crab 
(163881). 

Quick, Sgt. Horacr F., Camp Patrick 
Henry, Va.: 2 birds from Unalaska 
(169281). 

Raskin, Dr. SAMUEL, Cincinnati, Ohio: 
Embryological collection consisting of 
32 cleared embryos and fetuses (from 
about 3 weeks to 6 months), 2 right 
halves of fetuses sectioned along the 
midline, 1 maniotic sac, and a set 
of 4 sections through adult maxillae 
showing the relation of a molar tooth 
to the antrum (168841). 

Rapio CoRPORATION OF AMERICA, RCA 
Victor Division, Camden, N. J.:: 
D-Day Album containing 4 double- 
faced records bearing portions of the 
program broadcast by National 
Broadcasting Company on D-Day, 
June 6, 1944 (169952). 

Ramsay, Mrs. Heten Siater, Dalton, 
N. Y.: (Through Hon. James M. 
Mead) Silhouette of Nathaniel Boothe 
Nichols made about 1875 (169446). 

RANGONESE, ArTURO E. (See under 
Instituto Experimental de Investiga- 
cién y Fomento Agricola-Ganadero.) 

Rapp, Ensign Fioyp A., Brooklyn, 
N. Y.: An australite found 75 miles 
east of Perth, Southwest Australia 
(168296). 

Rapp, Witi1aAm F., Jr., Urbana, IIL: 
Ill.: 1 amphipod, 6 isopods, 2 para- 


101 


sitic worms, 8 mollusks (168501, 
(169262, 169427, 169773); 2 isopods 
from Reelfoot Lake, Tenn. (170197); 
4 amphipods from Staten Island, 
N. Y. (170360). 

Rappaport, Capt. Irvine, A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 21 fresh-water 
snails from Leyte, Philippines 
(170201). 

Rawson, Prof. D. §8., Saskatoon, Sas- 
katchewan: 25 amphipods, 5 mysids 
(170209). 

Ray, Dr. Cyrus N., Abilene, Tex.: 
Incomplete skeleton with fragmentary 
skull (known as the J. C. Putnam 
skeleton) found along Clear Fork of 
Brazos River, 1943 (169699). 

REED, CiypE F., Baltimore, Md.: Fern 
from Maryland (169242). 

Rerep, Dr. Epwyn P., Valparaiso, Chile: 
96 insects (170044). 

ReEep, Ertx K. (See under Depart- 
ment of the Interior, National Park 
Service.) 

REED, FreD, Christchurch, New Zea- 
land: 10 samples of diatomaceous 
earth from Oamaru, New Zealand 
(various deposits) (168477). 

REED, Mrs. Mary Starrorp, Washing- 
ton, D. C.: 10 sample books of cotton 
and wool prints with recipes for dye- 
ing and printing, used in England and 
in Dover and Manchester, N. H., by 
an English dyer, Thomas Stafford, 
uncle and father by adoption of the 
donor, and a printed copy of the 
‘“‘Defendant’s Record on Final Hear- 
ing’ of a suit in equity title John 
Bracewell vs. Passaic Print Works,” 
wherein Thomas Stafford is the prin- 
cipal witness (167988). 

REEDER, JOHN, Oak Park, IIl.: 108 
grasses from California (169565). 

REEDER, Sgt. JoHN R., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 8 grasses (168032). 

Rrxsipe, Dr. Joun B., Jr., Washington, 
D. C.: 486 mollusks from Montana 
and Wyoming (170600). (See also 
under Burton J. Westman.) 

Reeves, Col. Dacuzt M., Alexandria, 
Va.: Photographs, engravings, and 
an etching of Stonehenge near Salis- 
bury, Wiltshire, England (167938) ; 
4 prehistoric stone implements from 
England presented to the donor dur- 
ing his 1944 sojourn in England 
(170049). 

Reaan, 8. D., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: 
2 specimens of hardwoods from trop- 
ical America (169158). 

ReuDER, Dr. Hararp A., Washington, 
D. C.: 9 mollusks from Roland Park, 
Center Ossipee, N. H. (168217). 

REmmaANN, Irvine G., Buffalo, N. Y.: 
About 250 Silurian and Devonian 
corals from western New York 
(167631). 


102 


REINHARD, Dr. E. G., Washington, 
D. C.: 10 cotypes of a _ parasitic 
crustacean (169821). 

REINHARD, H. J., College Station, Tex.: 
38 flies (170168). 

ReEsNER, Ernest, F. P. O., San Fran- 
cisco, Calif.: 2 crabs (169157). 

RyoaveEs, Dr. RENDELL, Blanchester, 
Ohio: 3 cotypes of crayfish (168054); 
17 marine invertebrates, 10 mollusks, 
1 starfish, 1 fish collected by the late 
Corporal Howard in Italy (169080). 

RuHODE IsLAND DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- 
CULTURE AND CONSERVATION, Kings- 
ton, R. I.: (Through C. C. Jennings) 
A small collection of mites taken from 


tomato plants in Rhode Island 
(166684). 
Ruyopes, CHarues E., Shrewsbury, 


Mo.: 9 crinoids from Missouri, all of 
Mississippian age (169534, exchange). 

Rice, Haroup B., Shoemaker, Calif.: 
61 specimens of Japanese medical- 
military objects taken at Tarawa, 
Guadalcanal, and Tulagi (168283, 
loan). 

Rice, WiuuraAM §8., Oakland, Calif.: 40 
block prints for special exhibition 
from October 23 through November 
19, 1944 (168815, loan). 


Ricuarps, Dr. Horace G., Philadelphia, 
Pa.: 38 specimens of Tertiary Bryozoa 
from Virginia and North Carolina 
(169171). 

Ricker, P. L., Washington, D. C.: 2 
photographs of plants (168811); 10 
plants from the George Washington 
National Forest (168836). 

RIKER, VitLion E., F. PP. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 1 bird egg from 
Tinian Island, Marianas (169527). 

RIKER, Witu1aAM A., Norwich, Conn.: 
1 pair of ice skates, ca. 1880 (168403). 

Rieiey, 8. Ditton, Washington, D. C.: 
354 bird skins and 1 skeleton from 
Ceylon (164898, 170221). 


RitcHer, Dr. Pautu O., Lexington, Ky.: 
3 vials of scarab larvae (164697, ex- 
change); 25 beetles and larval skins 
of certain species, representing 4 
species (168025); 14 beetles (168090) ; 
14 beetles (12 third-stage larvae and 
2 reared adults) (168476); 33 beetle 
larvae representing 8 species (169695; 
exchange); 2 beetle larvae (170494). 


Rivas, Luis Rent, Habana, Cuba: 58 
fishes, including 48 paratypes, and 2 
crayfishes from Cuba and Mexico 
(168055). 

Roserts, Dr. F. H. H., Jr. (See under 
Dr. J. D. Figgins.) 


Roperts, Mrs. Norman L., Topeka, 
Kans.: Archeological specimens. col- 
lected near Manhattan, Kans., by 
the late Dr. Norman L. Roberts 
(168548). 


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Rosinson, Mrs. Cuarence J., Alexan- 
dria, Va.: 4 pieces of brocaded silk dress 
fabrics, 1 brocaded moiie ribbon, 3 
examples of needlework, and 1 piece 
of pen-and-ink work on cotton muslin, 
representing the periods of 1821, 
1846, and 1866, all owned by the 
donor’s grandmother, Mrs. William F. 
Haines, Corondelet, St. Louis, Mo. 
(170225). 

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, Diviséo 
Sanitaria International, Rio de Janeiro, 
Brazil: 13 specimens of mosquito 
material representing 7 specimens, 6 
of them by paratypes (169610). 

RoEBLING FUND, Smithsonian Insti- 
tution: A collection of 8 minerals 
from Mexico, comprising 2 argentites 
from Guanajuato, 2 native silvers 
from Batopilas, 1 legrandite from 
Coahuila, 1 argularite from Taxco 
and 1 stephanite and 1 pyrargyrite 
each from Zacetecas (168220); a sap- 
phire weighing 9.46 carats from Cey- 
lon (168159); 1 specimen of the Drum 
Mountains, Millard County, Utah, 
meteorite, weighing 1,164 pounds 
(168531); a set of 8 Chinese jades 
(168626); 1 green beryl, Wray mine, 
Yancey County, N. C., 39,157 
carats (168781); a collection of 
calcite crystals from La Aurora 
mine, Areponapuchic, Chihuahua La 
Fe Mine, Rodeo, Durango, Mexico 
(169466): 1 cat’s-eye chrysoberyl from 
Ceylon (169608); 1 natrolite from 
Livington, Mont. (169718); 1 phena- 
cite weighing 9.94 carats and 1 
diopside weighing 11.384 carats 
(1469899) ; 2 specimens of quartz from 
Pacu, Minas Gerais, Brazil (170561). 


Roesen, Oscar C., New York, N. Y.: 
Marconi coherer, 1906 (169267); an 
aircraft wireless transmitter, de- 
signed, built, and successfully tested 
by donor in 1911 (168821). 


Rogerson, T/Sgt. Cuarx T., A. P. O. 
San Francisco, Calif.: 10 moths and 
butterflies (167915); 29 butterflies 
representing 16 species, of which 8 
are new to the collections (168324); 
a small collection of Lepidoptera from 
the South Pacific (168629); 1 small 
collection of beetles from Bougain- 
ville (?) (168951); 153 butterflies 
(169495); 17 specimens of Lepidop- 
tera from the Philippines (170527). 

Rosas, Troporo, Jardin Botdnico, 
Paraguay: 76 grasses from Paraguay 
(168069). 

Router, JANE H., Washington, D. C.: 
A white-throated sparrow (168829) ; 
60 land snails from the District of 
Columbia (169868). 

Router, P. 8., College Park, Md.: A 
specimen of kaolin from Ringgold, 


ACCESSIONS 


Tenn., and 1 each of kaolin and baux- 
ite from McIntyre, Ga. (168762). 
Roos, ALFRED, Washington, D. C.: 
Specimen of native copper pseudo- 
morph after azurite from Copper Rose 
mine, Grant County, N. Mex. 

(168780). 

Roosevett, Mrs. FRANKLIN D., Hyde 
Park, N. Y.: Mauve crepe dress worn 
by the donor at the afternoon recep- 
tion given at the White House, 
January 20, 1945, on the occasion of 
the fourth inauguration of President 
Franklin D. Roosevelt (170349) ; dress 
and accessories worn by donor at the 
inaugural ceremonies on the morn- 
ing of March 4, 1933 (170497). 

RosENBLATT, Martin S., San Francisco, 
Calif.: A collection of miscellaneous 
Chinese jades (168666). 

RosencurttT, Dr. BeRnNarpDo, Estacién 
Juan Jackson, Uruguay: 55 plants 
from Uruguay (168317, 168873); 98 
plants and 11 grasses from Uruguay 
(167998, 169665, 169997, 170098, 
170354, exchange). 

Ross, Dr. H. H., Urbana, IIll.: 1 lepi- 
dopterous larva (169658). (See also 
under Illinois State Natural History 
Survey Division.) 

Roru, Lt. Louis M., Fort McPherson, 
Ga.: 167 slides of mosquito material 
from the southeastern United States 
(167904); 176 specimens of mosquito 
material comprising specimens from 
the southern United States and from 
New Guinea (168883). (See also 
under War Department, 4th Service 
Command Medical Laboratory.) 

Rowan, Mrs. ANDREW SUMMERS, San 
Mateo, Calif.: (Through Odus C. 
Horney) Medal of the Cuban Order 
Carlos Manuel de Sespedes, awarded 
by the Cuban Government to Col. 
Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. 
Army, in recognition of services 
during the Spanish-American War, 
3 documents relating to the medal 
and services for which it was awarded, 
and Col. Rowan’s military saber 
(168116). 

Rowan, Epwarp, Falls Church, Va.: 
1 hybrid black-hooded red siskin 
canary (170476). 

RuNDLETT, Epwin, Staten Island, N. 
Y.: A small collection of lepidop- 
terous larvae, wood-feeders (168986). 

Runyon, Rospert, Brownsville, Tex.: 
8 plants from Texas (169964). 

Rusx, Lou Bass, Campbell, Calif.: 
A blue-and-white, cotton-and-wool, 
overshot weave coverlet, ‘‘Pinebloom,”’ 
probably made in Virginia by the 
donor’s’ great-grandmother, Mrs. 
Johnston; also a sash-length of satin- 
striped grosgrain ribbon which was 
worn by the donor in 1880 (168187). 


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RussEuLL, AGNES, Washington, D. C.: 
1 ovenbird (169032). 

SAALFRANK, WILLIAM, Takoma Park, 
Md.: Approximately 75 specimens of 
Mississippian invetebrate fossils from 


the west edge of St. Louis, Mo. 
(169120). 
SaLisBpuRy, Dr. E. J. (See under 


British Government, Royal Botanic 
Gardens.) 

SaLtTER, W. E., Washington, D. C.: 
Fragment of sea-turtle shell from 
Parkers Creek, Calvert County, Md. 
(168215). 

Sampson, A. H. (See under White & 
Wyckoff Manufacturing Co.) 

Sampson, Prof. ARTHUR W., Berkeley, 
Calif.: 27 plants and 25 grasses from 
Pacific Islands (168066, 168369 
169326); 24 plants from the Russell 
Islands, Melanesia (169999). 

SANcHES, Jos&, Mexico City, Mexico: 
64 ferns from Mexico (168047, 168658) 

Sanpers, J. G., Tingo Maria, Peru: 
12 snakes and 1 caecilian from Fundo 
Sinchona, Peru (168207); 7 speci- 
mens of fancy woods from Peru 
(168749). 

SAUNDERS, Capt. H. E., Washington, 
D. C.: 1 shrike (169855). 

ScaTTERGOOD, LEestige W., Boothbay 
Harbor, Maine: 1 crab (168526). 

ScHAEFFER, Prof. Asa A., Phildadelphia, 
Pa.: 1 shrimp (169062). 

SCHENTHAL, Capt. JosePpH HE. (See 
under War Department, Army Serv- 
ice Forces Training Center.) 

ScHiEFER, Dr. HeLtEn, Bogotd, Colom- 
bia: 1 plant from Colombia (169920), 

Scumipt Co., Witi1aAmM V., New York, 
N. Y.: (Through H. M. Paskow) 
1 opal weighing 10.62 carats from 
Querétaro, Mexico (170451); 1 purple 
fluorite, weighing 9.55 carats(170562). 

SCHNEIDER, C. H., New York, N. Y. 
22 specimens of nickel ores from 
New Caledonia (168355). 

ScHots, I. H., Paramaribo, Surinam: 
Specimen of gibbsite (168514). 

SCHROEDER, WILLIAM C. (See under 
Harvard University, Museum of 
Comparative Zoology.) 


Scuuttz, James B., Takoma Park, 
Md.: Dental plate of a fossil ray 
from near Scientists Cliff, Md. 
(169727). 

SCHWENGEL, Dr. JEANNE S., Scarsdale, 
N. Y.: 10 marine shells from Florida 
and Australia (169850). 

Scorr, J. H., San Francisco, Calif.: 
1 scheelite specimen from Riverside 
Tungsten mine at Hyder, Alaska 
(168418). 

Scripps INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRA- 
pHy. (See under California Division 

of Fish and Game.) 


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ScuLLEN, Prof. H. A., Corvallis, Oreg.: 
1 insect (168710, exchange). 

SecHEeTti, Dr. Ler, Bozeman, Mont.: 
13 fresh-water snails from Montana 
(168791). 

Setr, Dr. J. Teacurn, Norman, Okla.: 
Type and 4 paratypes. of helminths 
from Wichita Mountains Wildlife 
Refuge (170427). 

Semota, A. RENATO, and ELPipi1o 
Pirra, Espera Feliz, Brazil. (Through 
D. M. Larrabee) A crystal of musco- 
vite from Urubu mica mine (169864). 

SEMPLE, ArtHURT. (See under Foreign 
Economic Administration.) 

Senn, Dr. Atrrep, Barbados, British 
West Indies: Tertiary larger Foram- 
inifera from Morocco, North Africa 
(168933). 

SEVERIN, Prof. H. C., Brookings, S. 
Dak.: 4 mollusks from South Dakota 
(169636). 

SHarer, Pfc. A. W., Cleveland, Ohio: 
46 amphibians and reptiles from 
Camp Crowder, Mo., and Vint Hill 
Farms Station, Va. (168372). 

SHENEFELT, Dr. Roy D., Pullman, 
Wash.: 2 paratypes of Hymenoptera 
(168164). 

SHopg, Comar. NS: 
12 fresh-water from New 
Jersey (168323). 

SipLEY, Cuarues L., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: (Through Dr. A. 
Wetmore) 12 specimens of Japanese 
paper currency of the period of World 
War IT (169992); 9 specimens of Jap- 
anese paper currency of the period of 
World War II (170477). 

Sipes, N. W. (See under Eureka Mica 
Mining Co.) 

SirBpauGH, R. A., Washington, D. C.: 
1 red-eyed vireo (170398). 

Simon, Lt. James R., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 27 fishes collected 
in New Guinea by Capt. Ralph F. 
Honess (168124); 145 fishes from the 
Hawaiian Islands (169884). 

Stimpson, Mrs. Roxie Couiir, Wash- 
ington, D. C.: 5 eggs of boat-tailed 
grackle (170574). 

SincLaIrR, CHARLES C., Washington, 
D. C.: 1 blackpoll warbler (168541). 
SKINNER & Sons, WILLIAM, New York, 
N. Y.: A series of specimens showing 
the sereen printing process of orna- 
menting a jacquard-figured rayon 
crepe with a 3-colored war-inspired 
motif, and the actual screens used 
for the application of each successive 
color, also a specimen of nylon cam- 
ouflage cloth (170051). (See also un- 

der Spool Cotton Co.) 

Suater, Lyp1a R. (See under Georgia 
Slater Bartlett.) 

SmirH, Aututyn G., Berkeley, Cailif.: 
1 mollusk from China (Cabrillo) 


R., Princeton, 
shells 


REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 


1945 
Point, near Pacific Grove, Calif. 
(170425). 
SmitH, G. Sracn, Creston, British 


Columbia: 8 beetles (169279) ; (through 

J. W. Green) 4 beetles (169994). 

SmirH, Mrs. Huaa M., Washington, 
D. C.: Palm leaf fan used by Bur- 
mese Buddhist priest (168678). 

SmitrH, Dr. M. R. (See under Prof. 
Kenneth W. Cooper.) 

SmirH, OtivE Coun, Mount Pleasant, 
Towa: 1 paint box containing bladders, 
tins, and packets of pigment used by 
Deborah Goldsmith Throop about 
1830 (168997). 

SmirH, Dr. Raupu H. 
versity of California.) 

Smitu, Prof. RocEr C., Manhattan, 
Kans.: 112 insects, representing 43 
species, 6 of which are represented 
by 14 paratypes (170139, exchange). 

SMITHSONIAN INstITUTION, Washington, 

D. C.: The Arthur Michael collection 
of early American silver (162866); 
royal Hawaiian feather cape 
(ahuula) (169696); 1 line engray- 
ing, “The Flight into Egypt,” by 
Carl M. Schultheiss, A. N. A., 
the annual associate member’s 
print of the Society of American 
Etchers (170258); 1 portrait of 
George Eastman, framed (170532) ; 
7 etchings by C. W. Sherborn 
(170549); 76 copper plates con- 
taining work in etching, aquatint, 
and drypoint by Charles W. Dahl- 
green (170550). Deposit. 

Bureau of American Ethnology: 8 
ethnological specimens collected 
by J. N. B. Hewitt from the 
Iroquois Indians of the Six Nations 
Reserve, Grand River, Ontario, 
Canada, and by James Mooney 
from the Cherokee of North Caro- 
lina (168929); a collection of 
spoons and fishhooks from the 
Indians of the Northwest Pacific 
Coast of British Columbia and 
southeast Alaska and a_ bone 
skin scraper from the Alaskan 
Eskimo, all from the estate of 
David I. Bushnell, Jr. (168052); 
a collection of arrows, skin quivers, 
and headdresses from the Hupa 
Indians, Humboldt County, Calif., 
collected by E. G. Johnson (168260); 
1 #3—-A autographic, folding pocket 
kodak of 1914 (168552). 

National Museum, collected by mem- 
bers of the staff: Chapin, Dr. 
Edward A.: A small collection of 
insects, mollusks, and crustaceans 
from Chile (169993); Conger, Paul 
S.: 12 bottles of diatom material 
from Chesapeake Bay (170566) ; 
Cooper, Dr. G. Arthur: Approxi- 
mately 1,000 Middle Ordovician 


(See under Uni- 


ACCESSIONS 


invertebrate fossils collected in 
Virginia and Tennessee during Oc- 
tober 1944 (169118), collection of 
Cambrian, Devonian, Mississip- 
pian, and Permian fossils from 
Sonora, Mexico (167698), 350 in- 
vertebrate fossils from the Middle 
Ordovician Chambersburg  lime- 
stone of southern Pennsylvania, 
Maryland, and northern Virginia 
(168196); Killip, E. P.: 2,400 
plants and 1 piece of wood col- 
lected in Colombia in 1944 (166- 
783) ; Taxidermist Shop: 3 sparrows 
and 1 starling (169034); Watkins, 
William N.: Trade samples of the 
woods of sugar pine, ponderosa 
ine, and sveamore (170308); 

edel, Dr. Waldo R.: 5,677 speci- 
mens of archeological and skeletal 
material from Indian village and 
burial sites in Scott and Lane 
Counties, Kans., and surface collec- 
tions from Buffalo and Sully Coun- 
ties, S. Dak. (168615); archeolog- 
ical materials from a large rock 
shelter on the east rim of the Pur- 
gatoire River canyon about 20 
miles east of Model, Las Animas 
County, Colo., 1938 (168676) ; Wet- 
more, A., and J. P. E. Morrison: 
587 birds, 76 mammals, 25,000 
mollusks, 99 helminths, 900 crusta- 
ceans, 347 reptiles and batrachians, 
1,180 fishes, 24 echinoderms, 3,000 
insects, 12 archeological specimens, 
and 1 specimen of wood (168826). 


National Museum, made in Museum 


laboratories: Casts of type speci- 
mens of fossil bird bones from 
originals in Harold Cook collection, 
Agate Springs, Nebr. (164735). 
National Museum, obtained by pur- 
chase: 314 plants from Venezuela 
(168546); a brass sewing bird or 
hemming clamp (169319); 4,838 
photographs of type specimens of 
plants (169583); seamless, single 
weave, jacquard type _ coverlet, 
having cotton tabby foundation 
overlaid by pattern wefts of colored 
2-ply wool yarns bound into the 
fabric by every fourth warp which 
give a small “‘bird-eye”’ effect to 
the ground, woven in 1845 by C. 
Fehr, in Emaus, Lehigh County, 
Pa. (169760) ; 3,162 photographs of 
type specimens of plants in Euro- 
pean herbaria (170434). 

National Zoological Park: 87 mam- 
mals (168300, 169630, 170546); 2 
bird skins and 29 bird skeletons 
(168478, 169852, 170223); 5 ethno- 
logical specimens from the Kiri- 
wina, Mormanby, and Woodlark 
Islands, Eastern New Guinea, col- 
lected by Lt. John H. Fulling 
(168617); 1 South American lung- 


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fish (168906); 33 specimens of 
fishes, from the East Indies, Africa, 
and South America (170237). 

SmytH, S/Sgt. A. V., A. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 26 plants from New 
Guinea (170317). 

Snow, W. E., Urbana, IIl.: 5 beetles 
from Illinois (169235). 

SoNOTONE CorRPoRATION, Elmsford, N. 
Y.: 2 sets of Sonotone hearing aids 
(168424); 17 sets of hearing aids 
which illustrate steps in the evolution 
of this type of apparatus (169582). 

SORENSEN, A., Pacific Grove, Calif.: 
1 mollusk and 1 aleyonarian (170154). 

Souxup, 8. S., Dr. J., Lima, Peru: 136 
plants from Peru (168940). 

SoOUTHWORTH, CHARLES, Thedford, On- 
tario: Approximately 500 specimens 
of Devonian brachiopods from south- 
western Ontario (169132). 

Soxman, G. M.; Dallas, Tex.: 1 fern 
from Texas (169017). 

Sperry, Dr. Omer E., Alpine, Tex.: 
2 plants from Texas (169288). 

Sroot Corron Co., and Crown Fas- 
TENER Corporation, New York, 
N. Y.: (Through William Skinner 
& Sons) A machine-gun turret-slot 
installation for Bendix turret, having 
a carrier through which the gun 
barrel protrudes, and with tackle 
twill extending the tape of the double- 
acting slide fastener (168291). 

SPRINGER, STEWART, Fort Myers, Fla.: 
1 fish taken from mouth of tiger 
shark (169508). 

SPRINGER FuNp, Smithsonian Institu- 
tion:10 crinoids from the Mississippian 
rocks on the west edge of the city of 
St. Louis, Mo. (169119); 7 Devonian 
cerinoids (169618). 

SpurLock, Rev. W. Ranpauu, Warner 
Robins, Ga.: Sioux Indian moccasins, 
beaded charm, and beaded bags, 
collected on the Rosebud Indian 
Reservation, S. Dak., 1905 (169986). 

STanDARD BrusH & Broom Co., Port- 
land, Ind.: (Through Dr. F. A. 
McClure) 5 specimens of broom 
fibers—bass, bassine, bahia, palmyra, 
and palmyra stalks (169731). 

StanrorD UNIvERsiTy, Natural History 
Museum, Stanford University, Calif.: 
(Through Prof. George 8. Myers) 12 


fishes (paratypes) from Venezuela 
(164121). 
STANLEY-Brown, Mrs. JosepH, Kew 
Gardens. Ne Ye: (throwuch? sits. 


Herbert Feis) Collection of wooden 
masks and miniature totem poles 
from Indians of the Northwest Pacific 
Coast, collected by the late Joseph 
Stanley-Brown (168051). 

STauBER, Dr. Lustre A., New Bruns- 
wick, N. J.: 10 crabs, representing 
various stages in the life cycle 
(170231). 


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Stearns, J. L., Laurel, Md.: 1 wood 
specimen each of the chinaberry tree 
and the poison-ivy vine, collected by 
the donor (170548, exchange). 

STEBBINS, Dr. G. LEpyarpD, Jr., Berke- 
ley, Calif.: 10 grasses from western 
United States (168956). 

Srenieé, Dr. H., Fort-de-France, Marti- 
nique: 295 plants from Martinique 
and Guadeloupe (168329, 169629, 
170171); collection of insects, 26 frogs 
and 4 lizards from Martinque (168525, 
169566, 169860); 3 Lepidoptera from 
Tivoli, Martinique (169149); 2 ferns 
from the West Indies (169570). 

STEIGLEMAN, Forrest E., Baltimore, 
Md.: 1 miniature dental articulator, 
complete with miniature upper and 
lower dentures, for addition to dental 
collection (168480). 

STEPHENSON, Dr. L. W., Washington, 
D. C.: 7 mollusks from Texas 
(167919). 

STERNER, ALBERT, Richmond, Mass.: 
29 prints for special exhibition from 
September 25 through October 22, 
1944 (168486, loan). 

STERNFELT, Comdr. Cart W., Wash- 
ington, D. C.: 39 reproductions of 
historie flags (168221). 

STEVENS, Everett MELLEN, EVERETT 
MELLEN STEVENS, Jr., CHARLES 
WILLIAM STEVENS, and Mary Ewiza- 
BETH STEVENS, Nashua, N. H.: A 
pictorial linen damask tablecloth with 
medallion portrait of George Wash- 
ington, used at Butterfield Tavern in 
Westford, Mass., during the 1830’s 
(168261). 

Stevens & Co., Inc., J. P., New York, 
N. Y.: 9 specimens of dress, shoe, and 
war fabrics made of various types of 
rayon yarns in the mills of S. Slater 
and Sons, Inc., Slater, N. C. (169505). 

STEYSKAL, GEorRGE, Detroit, Mich.: 9 
flies (169498, 169795, 169831). 

STickEL, T/5 Wituram H., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: Large collec- 
tion of reptiles and amphibians from 
New Guinea (168422). 

STIEGLER, Maj. H. W. (See under Mrs. 
W. Lee Lewis.) 

StopparD, Lt. C. H., St. Paul, Minn.: 
20 small wood specimens collected by 
donor on Bankia Island, Russell 
Islands, Solomons (169954). 

Stopparp, Hrrsert L., Thomasville, 


Ga.: 34 birds from Georgia (167823). 
Stonz, Dr. Atan. (See under Lt. (jg) 
J. N. Hutzel.) 


STONE, Benton, Negritos, Talara, Peru: 
3 slides of Peruvian Upper Eocene 
Foraminifera, consisting of holotype, 
paratype, and 6 topotypes (170155). 

STONE, JosEPH C., F. P. O., New York, 
N. Y.: 1 bird spider (168166). 


REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945 


Stoner, Mrs. Dayton, Albany, N. Y.: 
9, 874. insects, comprising 4,256 Hete- 
roptera, 2,062 Coleoptera, and 56 
Homoptera and 3,500 miscellaneous 
insects, the property of the late 
Dayton Stoner (167884). 

Strauss, Epwarp, Washington, D. C.: 
1 “Expo” camera, 1904 (a miniature) 
(168505). 

Strone, E. E., Miami, Fla.: 1 Eastman 
#1 Pocket Kodak, ca. 1892, 1 Criterion 
view camera, Gundlach-Manhattan 
Optical Co., and 3 plate holders 
(168229). 

STULLKEN, Lt. (jg) Donaup D., Pensa- 
cola, Fla.: 1 western burrowing owl 
(170375). 

Stuntz, Lt. StrepHen, Jr., Washington, 
D. C.: 1 butterfly (167948). 

SunpAy Express PusiisHine Co., 
Chenty, China: Chinese booklet en- 
titled ‘‘Immortal Roosevelt” (170501). 

Sussanne, Mrs. Nara, Miami Beach, 
Fla.: 1 miniature painting on glass 
(168057). 

SwWARTZWELDER, Maj. J. C. (See under 
War Department, Office of the Sur- 
geon General.) 

Tare. Drs tsa): 
sity of Nebraska.) 

TAYLOR INSTRUMENT COMPANIES, 
Rochester, N. Y.: 1 Tycos Aneroid 
Sphygmomanometer $5090 (168398). 

TEETERS, Ropert. (See under Orville 
R. Edner.) 

TEMPLEMAN, Dr. W., St. John’s, New- 
foundland: 15 harpacticoid copepods 
from external surface of lobster, 
representing a new genus and a new 
species (158737). 

TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CONSER- 
VATION, Division of Geology, Nashville, 
Tenn.: (Through Kendall E. Born) 7 
specimens of Middle Devonian Pe- 
gram sandstone from west Tennes- 
See, containing invertebrate fossils 
(168727) 

TERRY, Rogert A., Centerville, Calif.: 
Tertiary larger Foraminifera from 
Panama (1689382). 

Texas, UNIversity or, Austin, Tex.: 
239 plants, mostly from Texas 
(167847, 168854, 169420, gift-ex- 
change); (through Dr. Fred A. Bark- 
ley) 48 "plants from Texas (168325, 
exchange). 

THIESSEN, Maj. Atrrep E., Arlington, 
Va.: 63 Philippine woods (170510). 

Tuomas, JAMES H., Oneonta, N. Y.: 
50 pictorial photographs for special 
waa during April 1945 (169903, 
loan 

Tuomas, Maj. Witu1am B.S., Washing- 
ton, D. C.: 1 twin crystal from near 
Accra, Gold Coast, Africa (169416). 

THURBER, GRETCHEN O., Providence, 
R. I.: 1 Adler typewriter, ca. 1900 
(168622). 


(Geo under Univer- 


ACCESSIONS 


THurmaNn, Kay L., Vernal, 
(Through Dr. J. P. E. Morrison) 2 
deer (169087). 

Tipp, Dr. WitBuR M., and Dr. Raupr 
V. Banauam, Columbus, Ohio: Holo- 
types of 2 new species of copepods and 
paratypes of 1 species (169497). 

TIMBERLAKE, P. H., Riverside, Calif.: 
16 bees representing 9 named species 
(167971). 

Tissot, Dr. A. N. (See under Univer- 
sity of Florida and Florida Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station.) 

TITTERINGTON, Dr. P. F., St. Louis, 
Mo.: 1 lot of potsherds from the 
Andrew Snyder village site (Hoewel- 
lian) near Mount Victory School, 
Richwood Township, Calhoun County 
Tl. (168259). 

Topp, Dr. A. C., Baton Rouge, La.: 
Holotype and paratype each of 2 new 
species of nematodes (167965). 

TouLeFson, Set., A. P. O., San Fran- 
cisco., Calif.: A small collection of 
Lepidoptera from the Solomon Islands 
(170526). 

Totman, R. P., Washigton, D. C.: 7 
portraits engraved about 1850 by 
A. H. Ritchie in mezzotint combined 
with mixed methods (168992); 96 
Christmas cards by various artists, 
selected from the donor’s collection 
for special exhibition from December 
18, 1944, through January 14, 1945 
(169244, loan). 

TowNsEND, Dr. C. H. T., Sao Paulo, 
Brazil: (Through Capt. David G. 
Hall) 1,860 flies, including 4 para- 
types of 3 species (170218). 

TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR, 
Inc., Washington, D. C.: Display 
model of a TWA Boeing Stratoliner 
(33-place transport for substrato- 
sphere operations) (168228); display 
model of Douglas Day-Sleeper Trans- 
port DC-3 or DS-T (169683) ; display 
model of ‘‘Constellation’’ plane built 
for TWA by Lockheed (169243). 

ey DEPARTMENT, Washington, 


Bureau of the Mint: United States 
coins struck at the Denver, Phil- 
adelphia, and San Francisco mints 
in 1944 (30 specimens) (169905). 

Bureau of Customs: A collection of 
160 semiprecious stones (170319). 

TROMBINO, Tony, F. P. O., San Fran- 
cisco, Calif.: 1 mollusk (170376). 

Truitt, Dr. R. V., College Park, Md.: 
2 crabs and 65 oysters (170246). 

Turrk, Capt. Mitton, A. P. O., New 
York, N. Y.: A package of seeds from 
Burma (170060). 

Turcuines, Mrs. Everer1, New York, 
N. Y.: 29 portrait miniatures in a 
single frame, made by Pirie Mac- 
Donald, father of the donor, in 
Albany, N. Y.. 1890-1900 (169846). 


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Utah: | Tutuitt, Dr. L. D. (See under Iowa 


State College.) 

ToutTite, Mrs. Macow1n, South Bristol, 
Maine: Water lens and stand patented 
in 1881 by C. J. Dehyle and a magni- 
fying glass (168171). 

UNDERWOOD, Mrs. P. O., Detroit, 
Mich.: 1 mollusk (170413). 

Unitep Starrs ANTARCTIC SERVICE, 
Washington, D. C.: 42 bird skins, 18 
bird skeletons, and 1 seal skull 
(169054). 

UniteED STATES OF AMERICA TYPHUS 
Commission, Washington, D. C.: 18 
small mammals from Egypt (169603) ; 
(through Maj. Glen M. Kohls) 1 
kangaroo collected by Major Kohls 
in New Guinea, March 15, 1944 
(1697387); 15 small mammals, includ- 
ing 5 squirrels, 2 mice, 7 rats, and 1 
shrew, shipped by Capt. Kenneth E. 
Stager from Burma (170073); 5 rats 
in alcohol shipped by Lt. Col. Cor- 
nelius B. Philip, Philippine Islands 
(170126); 2 rats forwarded by Lt. 
Harry Hoogstraal (170128); 83 birds 
and 22 mammals from Burma 
(170490). 

Unisze, Dr. Lorenzo Urisn, Bogoté, 
Colombia: 20 plants from Colombia 
(168683, 168667, 170129). 

VaIpDEN, M. G., Rosedale, Miss.: 2 song 
sparrows (169596, exchange). 

Vait, Comdr. 8. P., Dallas, Tex.: 2 
dobsonflies (168421); 4 insects 
(168763). 

VALENTINE, Dr. J. M., McLean, Va.: 
13 beetles including 7 holotypes and 
6 paratypes (168393). 

VaLERIO, Prof. Manuvsru, San José, 
Costa Rica: 101 mollusks and 323 in- 
sects from Costa Rica and Cuba 
(167168). 

Van Scuaak, Lt. G. B., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 241 plants from the 
Aleutian Islands (168737, 170408, 
170463). 

Varaas, C., Dr. Cesar, Cuzco, Peru: 77 
plants from Peru (168184). 

Varaas, Jests Mrnpoza, Veracruz, 
Mexico: 10 mollusks from Tapapu- 
lum, Misantla, Veracruz, Mexico 
(169285); 67 land shells from Mexico 
(170359). 

Vareas, Dr. Louis, Mexico, D. F.: 
Small collection of mosquitoes in- 
cluding adults and pupae, represent- 
ing 5 species (167953). 

VARRELMAN, Dr. F. A., Washington, 
D. C.: 21 plants from Guatemala 
(170304). 

VasTINE, Estate oF Dr. Harry M., 
Harrisburg, Pa.: (Through Mrs. Leon 
Klepper and Dr. Riley D. Moore) 12 
specimens pretaining to the early 
history of osteopathy (170381). 

Vauauan, Dr. T. WAayLANp (See under 
R. Wright Barker.) 


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VENEZQZLA SERVICIO BoTANico, Mini-| WaLKER, Ernest P., Washington, D. 


sterio de Agricultura y Crio, Caracas, 
Venezuela: Photograph of plant 
(169121, exchange). 

VeEeRDUIN, L. C. (See under L. H. 
Kaltenberger.) 

VERRILL, A. Hyatt, Lake Worth, Fla.: 
4 mollusks from Florida (170426). 

VIKEN, A. J., Manhasset, N. Y.: 1 
Beidler-Viken twin camera, 2 Ilex 
photoplastic lenses, and 1 Ilex Uni- 
versal shutter (168169); booklet of 
panorama views on the estate of Mrs. 
George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, Long 
Island, N. Y. (168241, loan). 

VirGiniA, UNiversity or, Miller School 
of Biology, Charlottesville, Va. 
(Through John G. Mahan) 1 slide of 
new species of turbellarian worm 
(1704386). 

VISEL, GLADYS, Washington, D. C.: 7 
plants from Washington, D. C. 
(168306, 168782). 

Voetman, T/5 Donaup B., A. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: A collection of 
miscellaneous insects from Nether- 
lands New Guinea (170429). 

VONDELL, JoHN H., Amherst, Mass.: 40 
pictorial photographs for exhibition 
during September 1944 (168405, loan). 

Waaener, Lt. (jg) Warren H., Jr., 
F. P. O., San Francisco, Calif.: 60 
ferns from Puerto Rico (167845); 32 
ferns from Oahu and Guam (169782) ; 
6 ferns from Maryland (167939); 356 
butterflies (167944); 74 ferns from 
Pacific Islands (169346); 115 butter- 
flies from the Marshall and Admiralty 
Islands, Saipan, and Guam, also a 
few other insects (169520); (with Lt. 
(jg) D. F. GretHEerR) 182 specimens 
of Lepidoptera from Hawaii, the 
Marshall Islands, Los Negros, and 
Manus, Admiralty Islands, Guadal- 
canal, and the Philippines (170524). 

Watcott Funp, Smithsonian Institu- 
tion: Approximately 3,000 specimens 
of lower Devonian silicified fossils, 
200 middle Devonian fossils from the 
eastern Catskill region in the vicinity 
of Saugerties, N. Y. (167820). 

Wares, JAMES ALBERT. (See under 
James A. Wales Jr., Richard Beach 
Wales, and Nancy Holbrook Wales.) 

Wates, JAMES A., Jr.. RicHARD BEACH 
WALES, AND Nancy HOLBROOK 
Wates, New York, N. Y.: (Through 
James A. Wales) Original model of 
Alfred Ely Beach’s typewriter for the 
blind, patented 1856, and 2 Mc- 
Donough wall-type telephones ca. 
1887, donated by the great-grand- 
children of Alfred Ely Beach (163196). 

WaLker, Dr. Eaprert H., Washington, 
D. C.: 15 plants and 1 fern from 
District of Columbia, Maryland, 
Virginia, and Pennsylvania (168006, 
168262, 170432). 


C.: Parasitic worm from Occoquan, 
Va. (168098); a collection of stone 
lamps, a fox trap, lance points and 
other ethnological specimens of the 

Eskimo of Kodiak Island, a Russian 

teakettle of copper, all collected in 

Alaska by the donor (168304); 1 

hamster (168301). 

WaLKErR, Maj. Gen. Watton H., A. P. 
O., New York, N. Y.: Bronze bust 
of Adolf Hitler (169202). 

Wauuace, Lt. (jg) CHaruzs, Bellevue, 
Mad.: 2 mollusks from Florida (170291) 

WaLuack, Hon. Henry A., Washington, 
D. C.: 2 painted Neolithic jars pre- 
sented to him by Gen. Ku Chung-lun, 
Chairman of the Kansu Provincial 
Government, Lanchow, China 
(168114). 

WatuacE, Mary Bruce, Washington, 
D. C.: Engraving of George Washing- 
ton, in mezzotint combined with 
mixed engraving methods, by A. H. 
Ritchie after the painting by P. F. 
Rothermel (169234). 

War DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C.: 
(Through Bell Aircraft Corporation 
Airplane XP 59A (Bel: Airacomet), 
first jet-propelled airplane built 
and flown in the United States, 
designed and constructed by the 
Bell Aircraft Corporation in 1942 
for the Army Air Forces (170106). 

Army Air Forces, Dayton, Ohio: 1 
type C-1l emergency sustenance 
vest (168687), loan). 

Army Air Forces Tactical Center, 
Orlando, Fla.: (Through Lt. Earl 
S. Herald) 26 mosquitoes from 
Florida (170323). 

Army Medical Museum: (Through 
Maj. H. A. Davis) 4 snakes and 4 
lizards from New Guinea and India 
(167858), 3 snakes and 1 frog from 
New Guinea, collected by Chap- 
lain Anselm W. Keefe (168071) 
168751), 16 snakes and 3 lizards 
and 1 frog collected in New Guinea 
by Squadron Surgeon, 65th Service 
Squadron Unit 1 (168752), 1 sea- 
snake, 4 fishes, and 2 insects from 
Capt. Raymond Roberts, 201st 
Medical Composite Unit (169084), 
19 rats, 1 bandicoot, 1 shrew, 5 
nematode worms, and a small col- 
lection of insects from New Guinea 
(1682538, 168847, 169170, 169258, 
169354, 169445, 169528, 169602), 
skin and skull of a _ bandicoot 
(169071), 3 bats in aleohol (169957), 
forwarded by Capt. Carl O. Mohr); 
41 leeches forwarded by the 249th 
General Hospital (168985); bronze 
bust on pedestal of Dr. Horace 
Wells (169020); 4 bats, 2 rats, 1 
gecko, collected by Pfc. Percy A. 
Chandler at New Delhi, India, 


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109 


summer of 1944 and March—April| West Vircinta University, Morgan- 


1945 (169227, 170113, 170159); 
5 giant rats collected by Capt. 
Milton H. Buehler (169240); 42 
rodents, 1 bandicoot, 16 bats for- 
warded by 19th Medical Service 
Detachment General Laboratory 
(169605, 170127); 2 crabs and 1 
octopus (169680); 12 rats from 
Morotai Island (169704); 9 rats 
and 2 bats from the Philippine 
Islands (169801, 170261); 8 rats 
forwarded by 3lst Malaria Survey 
Detachment (170355); 4 bats col- 
lected by T/5 A. J. Nicholson 
(170448). 

Army Service Forces Training Center, 
New Orleans, La.: (Through Capt. 
Joseph E. Schenthal) 22 mosqui- 
toes, representing 7 species, from 
Louisiana (167727). 

Fourth Service Command Medical 
Laboratory, Fort McPherson, Ga.: 
(Through Maj. Stanley J. Carpen- 
ter) 91 mosquitoes of 15 species of 
southwestern United States (168- 
197); (through Lt. Louis Roth) 67 
mosquitoes (1685388). 

Malaria Laboratory and Control Unit, 
A. O., Miami, Fla.: 19 mosqui- 
toes from Trinidad (168391). 

Office of the Surgeon General, (Through 
Maj. J. Swartzwelder) 300 
mollusks from Lake Tali-Fu, Yun- 
nan, China (169726). 

Warp’s Natura ScreENcE EsTABLISH- 
MENT, Rochester, N. Y.: An andra- 
dite garnet from Graham County, 
Ariz, a cobaltite from Salmon, Idaho, 
and a uraninite from Cornwall, 
England (169365, exchange); a speci- 
men each of keramohalite xonotlite 
(168004, exchange). 

WASHINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF, Seattle, 
Wash.: (Through Prof. Trevor Kin- 
caid) Collection of amphipods from 
Puget Sound and Alaska, approxi- 
mately 97 alcoholic specimens and 
175 slides (168547); (through Prof. 
C. Leo Hitchcock) 9 plants from 
Idaho (169325, Paienee). 

Watson, T. J. (See under Interna- 
tional Business Machines Corpora- 
tion.) 

WEATHERBY, C. A. (See under Har- 
vard University, Gray Herbarium.) 

Wess, Maj. J. E., A. P. O., San Fran- 
cisco, Calif.: 1 spider and 3 centipedes 
(169126). 

Wesser, Dr. J. M., Riverside, Calif.: 
2 specimens of yucca (169902). 

Weser, Prof. Neat A. (See under 
University of North Dakota.) 

Westman, Burton J., Etna, Calif.: 
(Through Dresden 1b Reeside, Jiro) Ve 
Silurian invertebrate fossils from 
Siskiyou County, Calif. (169145). 


679046—46——_8 


town, W. Va.: 34 plants from West 
Virginia (169526); (through Prof. 
Earl L. Core) 162 plants from West 
Virginia (169817, exchange). 

Wetmore, Dr. A., Washington, D. C.: 
4 skeletons of birds, Colombia snipe 
(167924); 7 birds from Shenandoah 
National Park (167925); 1 nestling 
house sparrow (167926); 27 bird 
skins (168395, 169035, 169758, 
170379); 1 bat from Takoma, Md. 
(169612); 4 specimens of¢ Philippine 
postage stamps on cover (169854). 
(See also under Charles L. Sibley and 
Smithsonian Institution, U. 8S. Na- 
tional Museum.) 

WerzEL, Mrs. Fitora H., Washington, 
D. C.: Engraving of the Lord’s 
Prayer, by H. Heath with pencil note 
from Everhard Snyder, of the period 
about 1862-64 (168485). 

Wuitet, Mrs. Eveanor C., Washington, 
D. C.: 180 plants, mostly mosses, 
from eastern United States (168076). 

Waite & Wyckxorr MANUFACTURING 
Co., Holyoke, Mass: (Through A. H. 
Sampson) Art calendar for 1945 
(168957). 

WHITEHEAD & Hoac Co., Newark, N. 
J.: Silver token commemorating the 
airplane flight of Amelia Earhart 
across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928 
(170581). 

Wuirten, Horace L., Chauvin, La.: 
26-+ marine invertebrates, 4 crabs, 
173 echinoderms, mollusks, 2 frogs, 
1 insect, and 60 fishes (169078, 
169460, exchange); 4 fishes from 
south of Timbalier Island (169742, 
exchange); 10 fishes from near Wine 
Island, La. (169972, 170107, ex- 
change). 

Wi.txe, Ensign C. Forp, Brooklyn, 
N.Y.: 2 skins of European linnet 
(169282). 

WiLkeE, Ensign Howarp T., F. P. O., 
San Francisco, Calif.: 1 leaf-insect 
(169188). 

WiLuARD, Dr. Braprorp, Bethlehem, 
Pa.: Fossil starfish (type) from the 
Upper Ordovician (Martinsburg for- 
mation), Cumberland County, Pa. 
(168048). 

Wiutcox, Capt. Frep P., Arlington, 


Va.: 41 pictorial photographs for 
special exhibition during July 
(167951, loan); 4 pictorial photo- 


graphs (168908). 

WILLETT, GEorGE, Los Angeles, Calif.: 
3 paratypes of mollusks (169324). 

WiuuiaMs, Dr. Francis X., Honolulu, 
Hawaii: 6 flies (170047). (See also 
under Lt. Sherwin F. Wood.) 

Wiuuiams, Dr. J. Stewart, Logan 
Utah: 3 cotypes of a Mississippian 
blastoid from Utah (169715). 


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1945 


Witson, Lt. Cuarues 8S. Takoma Park,| Wyromine, University or, Laramie, 


Md.: 1 vial of copepods from Guadal- 
canal (170199). 
Wiutson, Ivan F. 
Mahieux.) 

Wiutson, L. Wayne, Moorefield, W. 
Va.: 3 amphipods and 6 mollusks 
(166985) ; 20 parasitic worms (169167) 
1 vial of parasites collected from a 
turtle (170061). 


(See under Pierre 


WIpPRUD, THEODORE. (See under 
Medical Society of District of Col- 
umbia.) 


WISCONSIN GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 
History Survey, Madison, Wis.: 
3 copepods, approximately 50 cla- 
docerans, and 20 ostracods (168812). 


WitcHEN, Eusitz, Washington, D. C.: 
Infant girl doll of period 1881 
(169619). 


Wo.tr, Harry J., Washington, D. C.: 
1 specimen of sphalerite from Big 


Four mine, Kremmling, Colo. 
(168802). 
Woop, T/5 Carroitt E., Jr., Fort 


George Meade, Md.: 6 butterflies 
from Virginia, representing 4 species 
(168544). 

Woop, Lt. SHERWIN F., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: (Through Francis 
X. Williams) 487 mosquito larvae 
(169114); 304 mosquitoes and other 
flies from Saipan and Tinian, Mari- 
anas Islands (169417). 


Work Projects ADMINISTRATION, 
Washington, D. C.: (Through Ne- 
braska State Historical Society) 


skeletal remains from sites Nh 4 
(Whitten site, Nemaha County) and 
Do 4b (Havlicek farm, Douglas Coun- 
ty) in Nebraska, collected through 
joint operations of the Society and 
W. P. A. (168168). 


WyGopzinsky, Dr. Petr. (See under 
Instituto de Experimental Agricola.) 


Wyo.: 194 plants from Wyoming, 
Texas, and Mexico (169529, ex- 
change). 


YALE University, Bingham Oceano- 
graphic Laboratory, New Haven, 
Conn.: (Through Dr. Daniel Merri- 
man) | fish taken by the Pawnee 
at Cat Island in the Bahamas, 1927 
(169429, exchange). 

School of Forestry, New Haven, Conn.: 
Small sample of ciruelillo wood 
from Cuba (169488, ge ne 

Youues, Lt. Stanutry F., A. P. O., 
Miami, Fla.: 25 mollusks from 
Cayenne, French Guiana (168674) ; 
27 specimens of fresh-water mollusks 
and 47 specimens of fishes from 
French Guiana and the French An- 
tilles (169192). 

Youne, Epwarp L., F. P. O., San 
Francisco, Calif.: 13 mosses from the 
Aleutian Islands (169770). 

Youne, James B., Louisville, Ky.: 1 
white-eyed vireo (167973, exchange). 

ZevirF, Prof. C. Courson, State Col- 
lege, Pa.: 1 slide of parasitic worm 
(169289). 

ZETBK, JAMES, Balboa, Canal Zone.: 
(Through Dr. J. P. E. Morrison) 385 
fresh-water shells from Panama 
(168825); 178 isopods and about 200 
shipworms, including the type of a 
new species, from Canal Zone 
(167866); 14 specimens of Perzpatus 


collected. on Barro Colorado Island 
from leaf mold (170062). 

ZIMMER, Dr. JouHn T. (See under 
American Museum of Natural His- 
tory.) 

Zopak, Prrer, Peekskill, N. Y.: A 
specimen each of stilbite, basalt, 


and heulandite with amethystine 
quartz and 2 specimens of altered 
cacholong from the Consolidated 
Quarry, Great Notch, N. J. (168024). 


PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES NA- 
TIONAL MUSEUM DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1944-45 


BULLETINS 


Bulletin 185, part 3. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central 
America, the West Indies, and South America. Compiled by Richard E. 
Blackwelder. 8vo, pp. i-iv, 343-550. May 21, 1945. 


PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FORM 
FROM VOLUME 29, CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL HERBARIUM 


Part 2. Mexican phanerogams described by M. HE. Jones. By C. V. Morton. 
Pp. 87-116. Asteraceae described from Mexico and the Southwestern 
United States by M. E. Jones, 1908-1985. By S. F. Blake. Pp. 117-137. 
May 21, 1945. 

FROM VOLUME 94 OF THE PROCEEDINGS 


Title page, table of contents, and index. Pp. i-vi, 588-598. December 1, 1944. 


No. 3177. Parasitic copepods in the United States National Museum. By 
Charles Branch Wilson. Pp. 529-582, pls. 20-34. July 10, 1944. 


FROM VOLUME 95 OF THE PROCEEDINGS 


No. 3179. A collection of birds from northern Guanacaste, Costa Rica. By 
Alexander Wetmore. Pp. 25-80, pls. 3-6. July 7, 1944. 

No. 3180. Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (III) [Tinamidae No. 2]. By M. 
A. Carriker, Jr. Pp. 81-233, figs. 1-29. October 10, 1944. 

No. 3181. The fishes of the family Characinidae from Venezuela, with descrip- 
tions of seventeen new forms. By Leonard P. Schultz. Pp. 235-867, 
figs. 30-56. September 6, 1944. 

No. 3182. New genera and species of oriental and Australian plant bugs in the 
United States National Museum. By Tsai-Yu Hsiao. Pp. 369-396, fig. 
57. August 5, 1944. 

No. 3183. New species of buprestid beetles from Trinidad. By W. S. Fisher. 
Pp. 397-409. July 22, 1944. 

No. 3184. The Fulgoroidea, or lanternflies, of Trinidad and adjacent parts of 
South America. By R. G. Fennah. Pp. 411-520, pls. 7-17. May 24, 1945. 

No. 3185. Summary of the collections of amphibians made in Mexico under the 
Walter Rathbone Bacon traveling scholarship. By Edward H. Taylor and 
Hobart M. Smith. Pp. 521-613, figs. 58-61, pls. 18-32. January 30, 1945. 


FROM VOLUME 96 OF THE PROCEEDINGS 


No. 3186. Review of the spider monkeys. By Remington Kellogg and E. A. 
Goldman. Pp. 1-45, figs. 1-2. November 2, 1944. 

No. 3187. <A revision of the American clingfishes, family Gobiesocidae, with 
descriptions of new genera and forms. By Leonard P. Schultz. Pp. 47-77, 
pl. 1. December 30, 1944. 

No. 3188. New beetles of the family Eucnemididae from Central America and 
the West Indies. By W.S. Fisher. Pp. 79-938. May 8, 1945. 

No. 3189. New lanternflies (Fulgoroidea) from South America. By R. G. 
Fennah. Pp. 95-104, pls. 2-3. May 9, 1945. 

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No. 3190. The genus Fundella Zeller: A contribution toward a revision of the 
American pyralidoid moths of the family Phycitidae. By Carl Heinrich. 
Pp. 105-114, pls. 4-6. May 18, 1945. 

No. 3191. A new genus and two new species of percoid fishes from New Guinea, 
family Centropomidae. By Leonard P. Schultz. Pp. 115-121, figs. 3-4. 
March 6, 1945. 

No. 3192. Three new sciaenid fishes of the genus Ophioscion from the Atlantic 
coasts of Central and South America. By Leonard P. Schultz. Pp. 123-137, 
figs. 5-8. April 25, 1945. 

No. 3193. The ichneumon-flies of the genus Cryptanura Brullé, mainly Tropical 
American. By R. A. Cushman. Pp. 189-176. May 23, 1945. 

No. 3194. Neotropical lanternflies of the genus Phricius-in the United States 
National Museum, with descriptions of four new species. By John 8. 
Caldwell. Pp. 177-184, pls. 7-10. May 16, 1945. 

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