. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. ACCESSIONS 53 Among the important exchanges received are: 750 specimens of assorted invertebrate fossils from the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Great Britain, from Sergeant Phihp Cambridge; 61 blocks of Permian limestone from West Texas, from Harvard University through Dr. H. B. Whittington; and one specimen of the very rare brachipod Enantiosphen from the Devonian of Germany, donated by Dr. Wolf- gang Struve, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. Science and Technology The most noteworthy accessions acquhed in the div
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. ACCESSIONS 53 Among the important exchanges received are: 750 specimens of assorted invertebrate fossils from the Mesozoic and Tertiary of Great Britain, from Sergeant Phihp Cambridge; 61 blocks of Permian limestone from West Texas, from Harvard University through Dr. H. B. Whittington; and one specimen of the very rare brachipod Enantiosphen from the Devonian of Germany, donated by Dr. Wolf- gang Struve, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. Science and Technology The most noteworthy accessions acquhed in the division of agri- culture and wood products comprised HI authentic wood samples of Santa Catarina, Brazil, collected and donated by Dr. Lyman B. Smith, and a portable farm steam engine made in 1877 by Frick and Company and donated by that firm. Among the items of major importance added to the division of electricity are a group of pieces constructed by Thomas Davenport, a Vermont blacksmith who obtained the first patent on an electric motor, given by Frank Chandler; and, from the General Electric Research Laboratory, replicas of Dr. Irving Langmuir's vacuum distallation pump and of his apparatus for measuring surface tension, devices basic to the work for which he received the Nobel Frick portable steam engine No. 315, made in 1877 and in continuous use until 1949. Donated by the Frick Company for the farm machinery hall now being 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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