Annual report for the year ended June 30 ... (1959) (18242859868)

Title: Annual report for the year ended June 30 ...
Identifier: annualreportfory1959united (find matches)
Year: 1951 (1950s)
Authors: United States National Museum
Subjects: United States National Museum
Publisher: [Washington : Smithsonian Institution]
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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The Hope diamond, presented to the Notional Museum by Harry Winston. This 44V2-carat, deep blue stone is shown here full size. country, 6 feet 10 inches long, a humerus of the Jurassic genus Brachiosaurus, was donated b}' D. E. Jones. Two accessions of fossil fish received in exchanges furnished exhibition material: one, a specimen of the Triassic coelacanth Diplwus newarki, together with its life restoration to scale, was received from Princeton Universit}^; the other includes 81 specimens of fossil sharks and ray-finned fishes from two marine Upper Cretaceous formations in Lebanon from the School of Engineering, American University of Beu'ut, through