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Outer Mongolia, Communist-controlled areas of Viet-Nam and Laos, 

 and the Haiphong Enclave. 



National Gallery of Art. — The Gallery received 477 accessions dur- 

 ing the year, by gift, loan, or deposit. Ten special exhibits were held, 

 and 23 traveling exhibitions of prints from the Rosenwald Collection 

 were circulated to other galleries and museums. Exhibitions from the 

 "Index of American Design" were given 42 bookings in 20 States and 

 the District of Columbia. Nearly 46,000 persons attended the various 

 tours conducted by Gallery personnel, and the 42 Sunday-afternoon 

 lectures in the auditorium attracted 9,470. The Sunday-evening 

 concerts in the east garden court were continued. 



Library. — A total of 78,715 publications were received by the Smith- 

 sonian library during the year. In all, 237 new exchanges were ar- 

 ranged. Among the gifts were several private collections of valuable 

 material, both of books and periodicals. At the close of the year the 

 holdings of the library and all its branches aggregated 956,157 vol- 

 umes, including 586,447 in the Smithsonian Deposit in the Library of 

 Congress but excluding unbound periodicals and reprints and sepa- 

 rates from serial publications. 



Publications. — Seventy-four new publications appeared under the 

 Smithsonian imprint during the year (see Report on Publications, 

 p. 197, for full list). Outstanding among these were "The Brome- 

 liaceae of Brazil," by Lyman B. Smith ; "The Last Cruise of H. M. S. 

 Loo? by Mendel L. Peterson; "Chazyan and Related Brachiopods" 

 (2 vols.) by G. Arthur Cooper; "The Honey-Guides," by Herbert 

 Friedmann; "The Dine: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians," by 

 Aileen O'Bryan ; and "Chinese Porcelains from the ArdebiL Shrine," 

 by John Alexander Pope. In all, 424,389 copies of printed matter 

 were distributed during the year. 



