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A bronze, Destiny of the Eed ISIan, by Adolph xV. Weinman, was 

 lent by the R. W. Norton Art Foimdation, Shreveport, La., on Decem- 

 ber 7, 1950. 



Two oils, portraits of Charles II and the Earl of Lauderdale, by 

 undetermined artists, were lent by Lady Ross of Balnagown Castle, 

 Ross-shire, Scotland, on March 22, 1951. 



WITHDRAWALS BY OW^NERS 



Two oils, portraits of Lady Mary Ross and the late Sir Charles 

 W. A. Ross, by Andrew Somerville, lent by the Bruce Corporation 

 (Ltd.), of Kildary, Scotland, and Wilmington, Del., through Sir 

 Charles Ross on December 2, 1926, and one miniature, portrait of the 

 8th Baronet, Sir Charles Ross, by E. C. Thomson, lent by Lady Ross 

 on April 4, 1949, were withdrawn by Lady Ross for shipment to Bal- 

 nagown Castle, Ross-shire, Scotland, on March 21, 1951. 



LOANS TO OTHER MUSEUMS AND ORGANIZATIONS 



Two oils, Moonrise at Ogunquit, by Hobart Nichols, and The Storm, 

 by Ludwick Backhuj^sen, were lent to the Bureau of the Budget on 

 July 27, 1950, for a period not to exceed 4 years. (The Storm was 

 returned on March 28, 1951.) 



Twenty-five booklets of sketches on the protective coloration in the 

 Animal Kingdom, by Abbott H. Thayer, and a bird model used by 

 him were lent to Mrs. Mary Fuertes Boynton, Trumansburg, N. Y., 

 on December 7, 1950, for lecture purposes. (Returned January 8, 

 1951.) 



Two Japanese cloisonne vases were lent to Howard L^niversity on 

 January 15, 1951, to be used as exhibition material in connection with 

 a series of lectures on Asia and the Asians, January 15 through 30, 

 1951. (Returned January 31, 1951.) 



Oil, Fired On, by Frederic Remington, was lent to the Denver Art 

 Museum on February 9, 1951, for an exhibition, "Life in America," 

 held in its new Schleier Gallery, March 4 to April 30, 1951. (Re- 

 turned May 14, 1951.) 



Bronze, Field Artillery, by Herbert Haseltine, with pedestal, was 

 lent at the request of the owner, Hon. Robert Woods Bliss, to The 

 Baltimore Museum of Art on April 6, 1951, to be included in the 

 special exhibition of "Sculpture of Herbert Haseltine," April 16 

 through June 3, 1951. (Returned June 6, 1951.) 



Three water colors. Ancient Castle, by Georgette Agutte, Sketch 

 of a Village, by Albert Lebourg, and The Windmill, by Guillaume 

 Tronchet, and one drawing, colored crayon and pencil, Landscape, 



