REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 47 



SUGGESTED RULES FOR THE ADMISSION OF PORTRAIFS TO THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT 

 GALLEKY PBEDICATED ON THOSE OF THE BRITISH NATIONAL PORTR.VIT GALLERY 



1. Admission of a portrait to the Gallery shall be based primarily oa the 

 celebrity of its subject rather than on its artistic merit. Such celebrity shall 

 have been acquired from the subject's contribution to the history or development 

 of the United States regardless of his or her opinions, words, or deeds. 



2. No portrait of any living person shall be admitted to the Gallery unless 

 such portrait is that of one of a group of persons at least a majority of whom 

 are dead. 



3. No portrait of any person dead less than 20 years shall be admitted to 

 the Gallery except by unanimous vote by individual ballot of those present at 

 a meeting of the Commission. 



4. No gift or bequest shall be accepted or portrait purchased except by a 

 three-fourths vote of the members present at the meeting of the Commission. 



The Commission recommended to the Board of Regents the re- 

 election of John E. Lodge, David E. Finley, Edward W. Redfiekl, 

 and Paul Manship. 



The following officers were reelected for the ensuing year : Charles 

 L. Borie, Jr., chairman; Frank Jewett JNIather, Jr., vice chairman, 

 and Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary. 



The following were elected member? of the executive committee 

 for the ensuing year: Herbert Adams, Gilmore D. Clarke, John E. 

 Lodge. Charles L. Borie, Jr., as chairm^an of the Commission, and 

 Dr. Charles G. Abbot, as secretary of the Commission, are ex-officio 

 members of the executive committee. 



The chairman stated that as the competition for the plans for 

 the Smithsonian Gallery of Art had come to an end and no funds 

 had been obtained for further work on the project, there was nothing 

 to report. 



Mr. Clarke and the Secretary also addressed the Commission in 

 regard to the activities connected witli the recent competition for 

 the plans for the Gallery, but no action was taken, although the 

 members expressed the feeling that the Commission was ready to take 

 active steps whenever funds were available to advance the project. 



THE CATHERINE WALDEN MTER FUND 



Three miniatures were acquired fron. the fund established through 

 the bequest of the late Catherine Walden Myer, as follows: 



22. "Portrait of a Young Man," by Moses B. Russell; from Miss Alice G. 

 Rogers, Old Lyme, Conn. 



23. "Le Chevalier Ed. van Cockelberghe de Dulzele of Belgium," by an 

 unknown artist ; from Samuel M. Crockett, Lynn, Mass. 



24. "Antoinette Bates," by Thomas Sully ; from Mrs. Eva Wilson Chadbourne. 

 Washington, D. C. 



