Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
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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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

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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,

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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
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70 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945

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

DIVISION OF HISTORY 75

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,
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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

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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.)

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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).

86

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

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945

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).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945

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

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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) ; —

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(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-

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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).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945

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).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945

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).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945

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-

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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).

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945

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-

105

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).

107

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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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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112 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1945

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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