88 EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1913. 



Herbarium, Leiden, Holland; the Jardin Botanique de I'Etat, Brus- 

 sels, Belgium; the Universitets Botaniske Museum and Zoologiske 

 Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Riksmuseets, Botaniska Afdel- 

 ning, Stockliolm, and the Kungl. Universitets Botaniska Museum, 

 Upsala, Sweden; the Kaiserl. Botanischer Garten, and Musee d'An- 

 thropologie et d'Ethnographie de Pierre le Grand, St. Petersburg, 

 Russia; the Durban Museum, Durban, Union of South Africa; the 

 Australian Museum and Australian National Herbarium, Sydney, 

 New South Wales; the Western Austrahan Museum and Art Gallery, 

 Perth, West Australia; the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, and 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Sibpur, India; the Agricultural College, 

 Tokyo, Japan; the Museo Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica; the Depart- 

 ment van den Landbouw, Paramaribo, Surinam; the Musemn Goeldi, 

 Pard, Brazil; the Colegio de San Ignacio, Medellin, Colombia; and 

 the Canadian National Herbarium, Ottawa, Canada. 



NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 



The permanent acquisitions during the year consisted of 1 1 paint- 

 ings, of wliich 9 are in oil and 2 in pastel. Seven of these were 

 additions by Mr. William T. Evans, of New York, to the collection of 

 the works of contemporary American painters, of wliich the initial 

 gift, comprising 36 examples, was made in the early part of 1907. 

 With consistent faith in the future of the Gallery and encouraged 

 by the pubhc appreciation of the part he was taldng in furtherance 

 of this belated effort to realize one of the most important conditions 

 imposed by the Smithsonian Act of 1846, Mr. Evans has generously 

 continued year by year to materially augment liis most desirable 

 donation until at the close of last year it numbered 144 pam tings, in 

 which 103 artists of this country, some deceased, but the great 

 majority still Hving, were represented. For the period covered it is 

 the most comprehensive and the most important collection of Ameri- 

 can works that has been assembled in any of our museums. The 

 contributions of ^Mr. Evans during last year were as foUows: 



Frank De Haven. Castle Creek Canyon, South Dakota. 



Edwin WiUard Deming. The Mourning Brave. 



Robert David Gauley. The Fur Muff. 



Charles Paul Gruppe. The Meadow Brook. 



Walter Shirlaw. Water Lilies. 



Otto Walter Beck. Christ before Pilate, and Suffer the Little Chil- 

 dren to Come unto Me, both in pastel. 



The other 4 paintings were comprised in 2 donations and 2 be- 

 quests, the former consisting of TwiUght after Rain, by Norwood 

 Hodge MacGUvary, presented by Mr. Frederic Fairchild Sherman, of 

 New York, in memory of his wife, Eloise Lee Sherman; and The 

 Wreck, by Harrington Fitzgerald, of Philadelphia, contributed by the 



