Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ended June 30, 1952 Members of the staff conducted field work in Honduras, Dominican Republic, Panama, Colombia, British North Borneo, Brazil, Ryukyu Islands, México, Alaska, and many sections of the United States. The Museum issued 27 publications during the year. National Gallery of Art - Visitors to the Gallery during the year numbered a slight increase over the previous year. The Gallery received accessions, by gift, loan, or deposit. Works of art accepted included paintings by Winslow Homer, J. J. And J. W. Audubon, Thomas Stephens, Tintoretto, Corot, Healy, Turner, Trum bull, Hogarth, Sargent, and Alvan Clark; 15 bronzes by Daumier; and several groups of prints and drawings. Ten special exhibits were held at the Gallery during the year. Traveling exhibitions of prints from the Rosenwald Collection were circulated to 19 galleries and museums in this country, and one exhibit traveled in Germany. Exhibitions from the Index of American Design were shown 78 times in 20 States and the District of Columbia and also in Europe. More than persons attended the Gallery's special tours and the Picture of the Week talks; more than the Sunday afternoon lectures. The Sunday evening concerts were continued. Construction of five new galleries, begun in 1950, was completed. National Collection of Fine Arts. - The Smithsonian Art Commis sion met on December 4, 1951, and accepted for the National Collection 2 oil paintings, 2 sculptures, 5 pieces of ceramics, several items of glassware, and 1 water-color miniature on ivory. Eight miniatures were acquired through the Catherine Walden Myer fund. Fifty-four oil paintings by Edwin Scott were added to the Alice Pike Barney Memorial Collection, and was added to the Barney fund. The Gallery held 10 special exhibits during the year. Under the direction of Mrs. John A. Pope, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition service was inaugurated, financed partly through the Barney fund and partly from a grant made by the Department of State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.