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schools of the District of Columbia and surrounding counties of Mary- 

 land and Virginia, these volunteers conducted tours for 66,528 children, 

 representing an increase over last year of 7,279. The volunteers also 

 guided 663 Safety Patrol girls on tours of the Gallery and special tours 

 were given for 25,445 children who came to see the Mona Lisa while 

 it was on exhibition at the Gallery. Altogether, 92,636 children bene- 

 fited from the services of the volunteer docents. 



Fifty-two lectures were given in the auditorium on Sunday after- 

 noons. Of these, 22 were delivered by members of the staff of the 

 National Gallery and 24 by guest lecturers. John Pope-Hennessy 

 delivered the 12th Amiual Series of the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the 

 Fine Arts on six consecutive Sundays on "The Artist and the Indi- 

 vidual : Some Aspects of the Portrait." 



The slide library of the Educational Department has a total of 

 45,682 slides in its permanent and lending collections. During the 

 year 1,408 slides were added to the collections. Altogether, 397 per- 

 sons borrowed 11,964 slides from the collections. It is estimated 

 that the slides were seen by 24,840 viewers. The Carnegie Slides, a 

 group of 2,500 on American art, which are in the Educational Depart- 

 ment slide library, were borrowed by 45 persons. 



Members of the staff participated in outside activities delivering 

 lectures and papers, and conducting meetings. One staff member 

 taught a course at a local university. Staff members prepared ma- 

 terial for the school tour program and the slide lending program, and 

 prepared scripts for the Lectour recordings. Thirty-five radio talks 

 were prepared, recorded, and broadcast on station WGMS. 



A printed calendar of events was prepared and distributed monthly 

 to a mailing list of more than 8,300 names, an increase of 1,000 names 

 over last year's mailing list. 



EXTENSION SERVICES 



The Office of Extension Services, under the direction of the curator 

 of the Index of American Design, Dr. Grose Evans, circulates to the 

 public traveling exhibits, films, slide lectures, and filmstrip sets of 

 works of art in the National Gallery of Art's collections. There are 

 27 traveling exhibits in circulation lent free of charge except for ship- 

 ping expenses. These were circulated in 262 bookings and were seen 

 by an estimated 131,000 viewers. The Extension Service circulated 

 33 framed collotype exhibits among the public schools of the District 

 of Columbia and the general public. Two additional exliibits were 

 prepared, and the Traveling Exhibition Service of the Smithsonian 

 Institution circulated one to 14 borrowers. The other was prepared at 

 the request of Senator Pell of Ehode Island and was shown in 18 



