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In the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany, the most important of the many gifts received are: 7,345 specimens of Carboniferous plants collected by Dr. Harvey Bassler, received from the Maryland Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources, The Johns Hopkins University; 23 type specimens of Miocene mollusks from the Chesapeake Bay area, Md., from Dr. John Oleksyshyn, Boston University; 144 slides of Recent Foraminifera and Ostracoda from the Antarctic from Rear Admiral Charles W. Thomas; 63 specimens of Oligomiocene ostracods from the Brasso formation of Trinidad, including many types, from Dr. W. A. van den Bold, Louisiana State University; 200 Mesozoic invertebrate fossils from Israel from Dr. J. Wahrman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; 2,500 specimens of Devonian invertebrate fossils from Northwestern Ohio from Mr. Keith Bernard, Detroit, Mich.; 7,500 specimens of invertebrate fossils from the Devonian of Michigan from Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Cooper, Washington, D. C.; a fine Devonian tree stump from New York from the American Museum of Natural History, through Dr. D. F. Squires; 263 foraminiferal concentrates and well-cuttings from Italian Somalia From the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company; 155 specimens of Cretaceous brachiopods from France, from Count de Villoutreys, Monaco; and 234 slides of Recent Foraminifera, 198 of which are from the Eastern Mediterranean, and 36 from Poponesset Bay, Mass., from Miss Frances L. Parker of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Of the transfers received in invertebrate paleontology and paleobotany, the following, all from the U. S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, are of special interest: 130 Foraminifera from the Western Mediterranean and Tyrrhenian seas; 123 Foraminifera from the Island of Saipan, Southern Pacific; 382 fossil crabs from the Island of Guam, collected by Drs. H. S. Ladd and Porter Ward; and 100 type ammonites from the Cretaceous of the West Coast.