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Curator G. Switzer was appointed United States delegate to the Museums Commission of the International Mineralogical Association. In this capacity he is also chairman of a Mineralogical Society of America committee engaged in the preparation of a director of mineral collections in the United States. This will be incorporated into a world director of mineral collections to be published by the International Mineralogical Association.

In August 1958 Curator Switzer made a collecting trip to various western localities, including the uranium mines in the vicinity of Grants, N. Mex., the borate deposit at Boron, Calif., and the copper mines at Butte, Mont. Material collected was added to the Roebling collection.

Associate curator E. P. Henderson made a trip to Harvard and Yale Universities, and the American Museum of Natural History, to study the meteorite collections. Associate Curator Paul E. Desautels made a trip to the same institutions to examine the mineral collections.

Curator Switzer and Associate Curator Desautels attended the annual meeting of the Mineralogical Society of America in St. Louis in November 1958.

Mineralogical materials for research purposes were furnished to investigators in many U. S. Government agencies, industrial laboratories, and universities.