. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. ACCESSIONS. This topaz, shown full size, is from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and weighs 3,273 carats, it is the largest cut blue topaz in the world. Funds from the income of the Walcott bequest made possible field work which yielded 600 echinoids from the Paleocene, collected in Georgia by Dr. Porter Kier in collaboration with Dr. Druid Wilson, of the Geological Survey; 2,500 Upper Cretaceous, Paleocene, and Eocene invertebrate fossils collected in Maryland by Dr. Erie G. Kauffman with Dr. Norman F. Sohl and Dr. Harl
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. ACCESSIONS. This topaz, shown full size, is from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and weighs 3,273 carats, it is the largest cut blue topaz in the world. Funds from the income of the Walcott bequest made possible field work which yielded 600 echinoids from the Paleocene, collected in Georgia by Dr. Porter Kier in collaboration with Dr. Druid Wilson, of the Geological Survey; 2,500 Upper Cretaceous, Paleocene, and Eocene invertebrate fossils collected in Maryland by Dr. Erie G. Kauffman with Dr. Norman F. Sohl and Dr. Harlan R. Bergquist, of the Geological Survey; and 1,000 Pennsylvanian fossils collected in Texas by Drs. G. Arthur Cooper and Richard E. Grant. The outstanding accession received in the division of vertebrate paleontology was a series of about 202 specimens representing fish, amphibians, and reptiles from various Permian formations in Texas and Kansas, collected by Dr. Nicholas Hotton III and John E. Gass- away through funds provided by the Walcott bequest. Particular mention is made of a nearly complete and articulated skeleton of the small predaceous amphibian Acroplous vorax taken from the Permian Speiser formation of Kansas, and a large part of a skeleton of the primitive cotylosaurian reptile Ldbidosaunis sp., from the Permian Arroyo formation of Texas. A rare and remarkably well-preserved ray fish, together with a gar pike and a partial skeleton of a bird. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution
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