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one of the most important historically to come to the Institution in 

 recent years. The portraits have been assigned to the National Col- 

 lection of Fine Arts; the remaining objects to the Department of 

 History, United States National Museum, At present those portions 

 of the Adams-Clement Collection chosen for public display are ex- 

 hibited in the west hall of the Arts and Industries Building. It is 

 expected that changes and substitutions in the exhibit will be made as 

 the documentation of the specimens proceeds. The donor died on 

 September 23, 1950, unfortunately before the formal opening of the 

 collection. At the ceremonies the speakers were Mrs. Katharine ]Mc- 

 Cook Knox, art historian; Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, 3d, president of the 

 American Planning and Civic Association ; Dr. Remington Kellogg, 

 director of the United States National Museum ; and Dr. Alexander 

 Wetmore, Secretaiy of the Smithsonian Institution. 



MEMORIAL GIFTS 



In memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney (1860-1931), Wash- 

 ington artist and civic leader, Natalie Clifford Barney and Laura 

 Dreyfus-Barney have given the Institution a fund of $15,000 and also 

 a collection of 224 paintings by Mrs. Barney, 51 pictures by other 

 artists, and many sculptures and objects of art. The art material is 

 to be used as the nucleus of a collection for loan in the interests of art 

 education in the United States and will be known as the Alice Pike 

 Barney Loan Collection. The fund, to be known as the Alice Pike 

 Barney Memorial Fund, will be used by the National Collection of 

 Fine Arts to maintain the loan collection and to organize and circulate 

 traveling art exhibitions in this country. 



Also received during the year was a bequest of $15,000 from the late 

 George H. Stephenson, of Philadelphia, for the purpose of executing 

 an appropriate memorial to Brig. Gen. William Mitchell (1879-1936) , 

 of military-aviation fame. Plans for the memorial are being insti- 

 tuted through the National Air Museum. 



SUMMARY OF THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES OF THE BRANCHES OF THE 



INSTITUTION 



National Museum.. — The increment to the national collections, dis- 

 tributed among the Museum's six departments, this year aggregated 

 more than 303,000 objects, bringing the catalog entries to a total of 

 32,617,298. Some of the year's more noteworthy accessions included : 

 In anthropology', fine collections of Colonial furniture and utensils, 

 further archeological material from Neolithic sites in Honshu, Japan, 

 and a collection of wooden objects representing the native culture of a 

 village in northeastern New Guinea; in zoology, a large lot of mam- 



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