SECRETARY'S REPORT 37 



DEPOSITS 



The following deposits for the Collection were made during the year: 



Bronze bust of Orville Wright, by Oskar J. W. Hansen, presented by Mr. and 

 Mrs Robert Frackelton, in memory of Lt. Roliin N. Conwell, Jr., U.S.M.C.R., 

 was accepted by the Smithsonian Institution for the National Air Museum, and 

 deposited January 10, 1950, (Withdrawn by the National Air Museum February 

 3, 1950.) 



Oil, on wood panel, Reclining Tiger, by Charles R. Knight, bequest of Vernon 

 Bailey, was accepted by the Smithsonian Institution for the U, S. National 

 Museum (division of mammals), and deposited January 10, 1950. 



Ninety-six drawings and paintings, by Abbott H. Thayer, N. A. (1849-1921), 

 made during his study of protective coloration in the Animal Kingdom, were 

 accepted by the Smithsonian Institution for the United States National Museum 

 (division of birds), as a loan from the heirs of the artist, through David Reasoner, 

 and deposited February 17, 1950. 



TRANSFERS 



Two oils, Beach of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass., by Frank Knox 

 Morton Rehn, N. A. (1848-1914), and Fog, by James Craig Nicoll, 

 N. A. (1847-1918), bequest of Martha L. Loomis to the United States 

 National Museum in 1935, were transferred from the division of 

 graphic arts on August 26, 1949, 



THE CATHERINE WALDEN MYER FUND 



One miniature, water color on ivory, was acquired from the fund 

 established through the bequest of the late Catherine Walden Myer, 

 as follows: 



70. Robert A, B. S. Sparrow, attributed to Benjamin Trott; from Edmund Bury, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



LOANS ACCEPTED 



Orrefors crystal vase, signed Edvard Hald, was lent by Mr. and 

 Mrs, Hugh Smith on December 1, 1949. 



Fifty miniatures from the Pepita Milmore collection were lent by 

 Mrs, Henry L, Milmore on April 24 and 26, 1950. 



WITHDRAWALS BY OWNERS 



Two miniatures, Roswell Shurtleff and Anna Pope Shurtleff, by 

 Frank Barbour, lent in 1941, were withdrawn on October 13, 1949, 

 by order of the owner, Mrs. O. A, Mechlin, 



Three oils, Portraits of Joseph Turner and Elizabeth Oswald Chew, 

 by John Wollaston, lent in 1932, and Portrait of John Eager Howard, 

 attributed to Charles Willson Peale or Robert Edge Pine, lent in 1934, 

 were withdrawn on November 7, 1949, by order of the owner, Mrs. 

 H. H. Norton. 



