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structures, existing and contemplated. Salient features of the pro- 

 posed National Air Museum were pointed out. 



Mr. Goodrich recalled that recommendations for early erection of 

 a Smithsonian Gallery of Art had been made in the report on Gov- 

 ernment and Art by the Fine Arts Commission, in the report by tlie 

 Committee on Government and Art, of which Mr. Goodrich is chair- 

 man, and in the minority report of the hearings on the Howell and 

 12 other bills oifered in the 83d Congress. Mr. Goodrich's motion 

 that the Smithsonian Art Commission recommend to the Board of 

 Regents that it go on record as favoring the early construction of a 

 Smithsonian Gallery of Art was unanimously approved. 



Dr. Carmichael and Mr. Beggs reviewed accomplisliments during 

 the year, making particular mention of the exchange of traveling ex- 

 hibitions with foreign countries and the urgent need for the proposed 

 Smithsonian Gallery of Art building to provide necessary office, as- 

 sembling, and exhibition space for its distinguished temporary shows 

 as well as to house the permanent collections. 



The Commission accepted the following objects : 



OU, The Bathers, by Robert Reid, N. A. (1862-1929). Gift of Mrs. Francis 

 Marion Wigmore, in memory of her husband. Accepted for the National Col- 

 lection of Fine Arts. 



Oil, The Rapids, by W. Elmer Schofield, N. A. (1867-1944). Henry Ward 

 Ranger Bequest. Accepted for the National Collection of Fine Arts. 



Oil, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in 

 Europe, 1949, by Capt. Sir Oswald Birley (1880-1952). Gift of British friends 

 of the artist to the people of the United States. Accepted for the National 

 Portrait Gallery. 



Pastel, Huichol Indian, by Anton Sario. Presented through the Department 

 of State. Accepted for the Smithsonian Institution with recommendation that 

 it be assigned to the Bureau of American EJthnology. 



TRANSFERS ACCEPTED 



One gold necklace set with 30 garnets ; a round-headed fibula with 

 garnet inlay ; a brooch ; an amethyst ball pendant framed in gold with 

 garnets; a gold ring studded with 3 garnets; a Y-shaped fibula, and a 

 coin of Constantine II (317-340), were transferred from the 

 Department of State on September 21, 1954. 



Three heroic-size oil portraits by Chester Harding (1792-1866), 

 George Washington, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson, were trans- 

 ferred from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on 

 November 24, 1954. 



One unframed watercolor, Munich Model, by "William H. Holmes 

 (1846-1933), was transferred from the United States National 

 Museum (Division of Graphic Arts) on December 8, 1954. 



