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Associate curator Richard S. Boardmen had the bryozoan collection minutely searched for type material and reports a considerable increase in the type collection. The type bryozoan collection is now complete and all of the thin-sections of the bryozoans have been put in order.

Dr. Boardman is also in charge of the collection of corals as well as bryozoans. The thin sections of corals have been removed from the slide boxes in which they had hitherto been stored in indifferent order, and have been placed in Lab-Aid flat fire cases in alphabetical order. Many unmarked type slides were recognized and have been placed in the type collection. This work, in addition to the cataloging by Connors mentioned in the 1958 Annual Report, completed the curating of the coral collection. Except for revision of species identification, little needs to be done on this collection.

Similar problems occur in most of the other collections. Associate curator Kier reports starting on a revision of the crinoid and other type echinoderms. When segregated some years ago they were in alphabetical order, but over a period of several years, with no one to watch over them, many of the specimens have been improperly placed. Futhermore, it is now planned to arrange these types alphabetically under the name under which they were described. This involves little label writing and a cross-index system has been devised for ready reference for more modern names of the types. Kier also prepared some Paleozoic echinoids that were received from the U. S. Geological Survey, or had been stored in the stratigraphic collections. The Marr collection of crinoid types and other specimens from the Pennsylvanian of Texas were cataloged and distributed.