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Cooper, and 8,000 Cambrian and Devonian fossils collected by Dr. C. 

 E. Resser in Montana, Utah, and the Canadian Rockies ; in engmeer- 

 ing and industries, a number of models of historic aircraft, an example 

 of the Allison liquid-cooled aircraft engine, type V-1710-C, a jeep 

 lent by the War Department, the first Emerson iron lung completed 

 in 1931, and a collection of 183 Currier and Ives prints given by Miss 

 Adele S. Colgate. Although field expeditions were gi*eatly curtailed 

 because of war conditions, those to which the Museum was previously 

 conmaitted were carried through with valuable results in specimens 

 and new information. Visitors to the Museum numbered 2,042,817. 

 Although this was nearly half a million less than in the previous 

 year, nevertheless the decrease was less than had been anticipated in 

 view of restrictions on automobile travel. The Museum issued 44 

 publications and distributed 82,545 copies during the year. Fifteen 

 special exhibits were held in the Museum under the auspices of 

 various scientific and other groups. Among numerous changes in 

 the staff may be mentioned the retirement, after nearly 39 years of 

 service, of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka as curator of the division of physical 

 anthropology; Dr. T. Dale Stewart, associate curator of the division, 

 was promoted to the curatorship to succeed him. 



National Gallery of Art — The total attendance at the Gallery for 

 the first full year of its operation was 2,005,328, a daily average of 

 over 5,500 visitors. In June the Gallery began a series of Sunday 

 evening openings for the benefit of service men and war workers. 

 Concerts and special lectures featured these Sunday openings, which 

 proved so successful that it was decided to continue them indefinite- 

 ly. Publications available to the public are a general information 

 booklet, a catalog of the paintings and sculpture, a book of illustra- 

 tions of all the works of art in the Gallery, color reproductions, and 

 postcards. Since Pearl Harbor the Gallery has been blacked out 

 nightly, and frequent air-raid drills have been held. A limited 

 number of the most fragile and irreplaceable works of art have been 

 removed to a place of greater safety, but it is the expressed belief 

 of the Board of Trustees that the Gallery has a duty to the public 

 and an obligation as a source of recreation and education to con- 

 tinue its activities and even increase them in war time. Gifts of 

 prints, paintings, and sculpture were accepted from eight different 

 donors, and a number of important loans were received. Seven 

 special exhibitions were held at the Gallery, including one of draw- 

 ings of war-time London, another of the art of Australia, and one 

 of 11 portrait busts of the Presidents of the Republics of South 

 America, by Jo Davidson. The Gallery's educational program in- 

 cluded Gallery tours of the collection conducted twice daily ; a series 

 of 34 special lectures, one given each Saturday afternoon from Octo- 

 ber to April, and Gallery talks and other lectures dealing with a 



