SECRETARY'S REPORT 77 



Three miniatures, A Gentlewoman, Lady with Blue Hair Ribbon, and Lady 

 with Pearls in Hair, by Hattie B. Burdette ( 7-1955). Gift of George F. Linkins. 



A German antique cabinet and a collection of 31 pieces of glass, mostly Ger- 

 man and Bohemian from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Bequest of 

 Henry Osthoff. 



Two award-winning pieces from the Fifth International Exhibition of Ceramic 

 Art, 1955 ; sgraffito bowl, by Roger D. Corsaw, winner of the Frank A. Jelleff 

 award ; and a green bowl, by Cyntbia Wilder Mott, winner of the Popular 

 Ceramics Magazine award. Gift of the Kiln Club. 



Three bronze busts, offered by the sculptors to the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution — Dr. Charles Greeley xYbbot, by Alicia Neathery ; Dr. Albert 

 Schweitzer, by Leo Cherne; and Daniel Carter Beard, by Nickolai 

 V. Dimitrieff — were recommended for addition to the Smithsonian 

 collection, the latter two for transfer to the division of medicine and 

 public health and the division of civil history, respectively. 



THE CATHERINE WALDEN MYER FUND 



Five miniatures, watercolor on ivory, were acquired from the fund 

 established through the bequest of the late Catherine Walden Myer, 

 as follows : 



101. Richard Yates ( 1732-1 SOS), attributed to John Ramage (1748-1802). 



102. Mrs. Richard Yates (nee Catherine Brass) (1735-?), attributed to John 

 Ramage. 



103. Lawrence Reid Yates (brother of Richard) (7-179G), by Walter Robert- 

 son, after Gilbert Stuart. 



104. Mrs. Elizabeth Pollock Hartigan, attributed to Walter Robertson. 



Nos. 101 through 104 were acquired from Capt. Edward E. Lull, U. S. N. R., 

 Norfolk, Va. 



105. Mrs. Benjamin Silliman (Harriet Trumbull) (?-1850), attributed to 

 Henry Colton Shumway (1S07-1884) ; from Spencer R. McCulloch, Kirkwood, Mo. 



WITHDRAWAL BY OWNERS 



Twenty-two bronzes, 20 by Frederic Remington, lent in 1947, 

 Paleolithic Woman, by Sally James Farnham, lent in 1947, and 

 Destiny of the Red Man, by Adolph A. Weinman, lent in 1950, were 

 withdrawn by the R. W. Norton Art Foundation, Shreveport, La., 

 and taken to the Remington Art Memorial, Ogdensburg, N. Y., on 

 December 8, 1955. 



Five family portraits, Lady Standing by Tombstone (Henrietta 

 Gordon), signed Martin, and Lucy Walters and the Duke of Mon- 

 mouth, said to be by Sir Peter Lely, lent by the Bruce Corporation 

 (Ltd.) of Kildary, Scotland, and Wilmington, Del., through Sir 

 Charles Ross in 1926 ; Hon. Grizel Ross, said to be by William Hogarth, 

 lent by Lady Ross in 1949, and Charles II, and Earl of Lauderdale, 

 by undetermined artists, lent by her in 1951, were withdrawn by Lady 

 Ross for shipment to Balnagown Castle, Ross-shire, Scotland, on 

 February 28, 1956. 



