22 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1963 



search associate of the Smithsonian. During Dr. Kellogg's service 

 as Director, beginning in 1948, the National Museum experienced a re- 

 markable growth. The collections grew from 25 million specimens 

 in 1948 to 56 million in 1962. A renovation of exhibits programs re- 

 vitalized more than 20 exhibition halls in the National Museum. A 

 wing was added to the Natural History Museum, and a new Museum 

 of History and Technology was built. Dr. Kellogg directed the 

 programs that resulted in these acliievements and participated 

 strongly in their execution. 



Prior to becoming Director of the National Museum, Dr. Kellogg 

 had served in the division of mammals, beginning in 1928 as assistant 

 curator and becoming curator of the division in 1941. His main sci- 

 entific interest has been, and continues to be, the biology of whales, in 

 which field he is one of the world's foremost authorities. His re- 

 search on the paleontology of whales has been widely acclaimed. It is 

 altogether fitting, therefore, that he should now be conducting his 

 scientific investigations in a workroom on the vertebrate paleontology 

 floor of the museum wing which he helped to create. He is con- 

 tinuing to publish his excellent scientific reports. 



On November 1, 1962, following Dr. Kellogg's retirement. Dr. 

 Albert C. Smith, who had been Director of the Museum of Natural 

 Histoiy since 1958, became an Assistant Secretary of the Institution. 



NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 



On April 27, 1962, Public Law 87-443 established the National Por- 

 trait Gallery as a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution to "function 

 as a free public museum for the exhibition and study of portraiture 

 and statuary depicting men and women who have made significant 

 contributions to the history, development, and culture of the people 

 of the United States and of the artists who created such portraiture 

 and statuary." 



This act of Congress also authorized the establislmient of a National 

 Portrait Gallery Commission, to serve as an advisory body to the 

 Board of Kegents in regard to programs, methods of operation, and 

 selections of appropriate displays for the new Gallery. The members 

 of the Commission, as announced on June 21, 1963, by the Chancellor 

 of the Board of Kegents, the Honorable Earl Warren, are as follows : 



CatheriBe Drinker Bowen, author and historian, of Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



Julian P. Boyd, author and historian, of Princeton, N.J. 



John Nicholas Brown, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, of Providence, R.I. 



Lewis Deschler, Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives of the United 



States Congress, of Bethesda, Md. 

 David B. Finley, former Director of the National Gallery of Art, of Washington, 



D.O. 

 Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, historian and biographer, of Farmington, Conn. 



