INDEX 



577 



McNeil, Mary, 12 



Meggers, Betty J., ix 



Mellon, Paul, viii, 178, 179 



Members of the Institution, v 



M£ndez P., Alejandro, 35 



Menzel, Donald H., 9-10 



(The edge of the sun), 215 



Metcalf, George, 50, 52 



Meyer, F. G., 26 



Miller, Carl F., 42, 48, 49, 51, 54 



Miller, Gerrit S., Jr., 41 



Mintner, Bradshaw, 39 



Mitchell, James P., Secretary of Labor, 

 member of the Institution, v 



Moh, C. C., 72 



Mongan, Elizabeth, 187 



Moore, Bruce, 103 



Moore, J. P., ix 



Morrison, J. P. E., vi 



Morrissey, J. H., 40 



Morton, C. V., vi 



Mosher, Stuart M., 40 



Muesebeck, C. F. W., ix 



Multhauf, Robert P., vi, vii, 26, 28 



Mundy, Maj. Gen. George W., 102 



Museum of History and Technology, 1, 

 2, 8, 39-40, 211 



Appropriation, 1, 8, 40, 211 

 Committee on Construction, 2 



Myers, George Hewitt, 75 



N 



National Air Museum, viii, 8, 14, 101 



Accessions, 113 



Advisory Board, viii, 102 



Appropriation, 8 



Building, status of proposed, 101 



Exhibits, improvements and 

 changes in, 105 



Informational services, 107 



Publications, 110 



Reference material and acknowl- 

 edgments, 111 



Report, 101 



Special events, 103 



Staff, viii 



Stephenson bequest, 101 



Storage, 106 

 National Collection of Fine Arts, vii, 8, 

 14, 75 



Appropriation, 8 



Art works lent, 78 



Barney, Alice Pike, memorial fund, 

 81 



Information service and staff activi- 

 ties, 86 



Loans returned, 79 



Myer, Catherine Walden, fund, 77 



Ranger, Henry Ward, fund, 82 



Report, 75 



Smithsonian Art Commission, 75 



Smithsonian lending collection, 80 



Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition 

 Service, 82 



Special exhibitions, 87 



Staff, vii 



Withdrawals by owners, 77 



National Gallery of Art, viii, 8, 15, 178 

 Accessions, 15, 179 

 Activities, curatorial, 186 



Other, 191 

 Appropriations, 179 

 Attendance, 8, 15, 179 

 Audit of private funds, 192 

 Building and grounds, maintenance 



of, 191 

 Educational program, 189 

 Exhibitions, special, 184 



Traveling, 185 

 Fifteenth anniversary celebration, 



179 

 Gifts, ISO, 192 



Index of American Design, 190 

 Library, 190 

 Officials, viii, 178 

 Organization, 178 

 Personnel, 179 

 Publications, 188 

 Report, 178 

 Restoration, 187 

 Trustees, viii, 178 

 Works of art, exchange of, 182 

 Lent, 183 

 On loan, 182 



Returned, 183 

 National Museum vi, 8, 16 

 Accessions, 13, 16 

 Appropriation, 8 

 Buildings and equipment, 39 

 Exhibitions, 13, 36 



Modernization of, 13, 36 

 Exploration and fieldwork, 25 

 Organization and staff, changes in, 



40 

 Report, 16 

 Staff, vi 

 National Zoological Park, viii, 8, 14, 117, 

 211 



Accessions, 14, 118 



Animals in collection on June 30, 



1956, 141 

 Appropriation, 8, 117, 211 

 Births and hatchings, 129 

 Cooperation, 138 

 Depositors and donors and their 



gifts, 122 

 Deposits, 122 

 Exhibits, 118 

 Finances, 117 

 Fiftieth anniversary, 131 

 Improvements and maintenance. 



135 

 Needs, 139 

 Report, 117 

 Research, 132 

 Staff, viii 



Status of the collection, 160 

 Veterinarian, 133 

 Visitors, 8, 14, 136 

 Nelson, Mrs. Robert, Jr., 11, 12 

 Neuman, Robert W., 55, 58 

 Newman, J. B., chief, personnel division, 



v 

 Newman, Marshall T., vL 25 



