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of Jan Lutma, the younger, by himself, dated 1681, executed on copper 

 with punches (opm mallei), the rirst specimen of this kind of work ac- 

 quired by the Museum, and a hue proof of J. G. Mailer's portrait of 

 Anton Graff, after Graff, engraved on copper. 



The specimens received during the year have mostly been placed on 

 exhibition. To accomplish this, part of the division of photo-mechani- 

 cal process work had to be rearranged, and a number of table-cases 

 had to be placed in the alcoves. These cases interfere somewhat with 

 the appearance of, and the freedom of movement in, the alcoves, 1 >ut they 

 are excellently well adapted for the display of technical specimens, and 

 it is to be hoped, therefore, that more of them will be provided as the 

 collections grow and are rearranged. Considerable progress has been 

 made iu the labeling, by the substitution of written for printed labels. 

 It has been possible in this way to label nearly all the specimens on the 

 eastern, and a considerable number of those on the western side of the 

 hall of Graphic Arts. It is uow proposed to complete the labeling in 

 this manner, leaving the collections for the present in essentially their 

 actual condition, with the exception of such additions as it maybe pos- 

 sible to make meanwhile. The next step will be the systematic cata- 

 loguing of all the material on hand, and the endeavor to procure such 

 additional specimens as are needed to complete the various series. 

 This done, the whole collection can be rearranged according to the 

 catalogue, and a manual of it can be prepared for the use of students. 

 The exhibition of The Reproductive Arts, arranged by me at the Mu- 

 seum of Fine Arts, Boston, at the beginning of this year (1892), and 

 the catalogue prepared for the same exhibition, were preliminary stud- 

 ies on the basis of which the more extensive scheme planned for the 

 U. S. National Museum is to be carried out. 



No further progress has been made in the arrangement of the collec- 

 tion of patents. 



The last number entered on the catalogue of the section of Graphic 

 Arts for the year ending June 30, 1891, having been 4797, and the cor- 

 responding number for the year now under consideration being 4970, 

 it follows that the number of entries during the year has been 179. As 

 some few of these entries represent more than one specimen, the num- 

 ber of accessions may be given in round numbers at about 200. Of 

 these specimens 42 were purchased. A list of the donors is included 

 in Section v of the report. No statistics can be given, for the present, 

 of the reserve and duplicate series. 



LIST OF ACCESSIONS RECEIVED AS GIFTS DURING THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1892, 

 ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY ACCORDING TO NAMES OF DONORS. 



Avery, S. P., New York. One dry-point by Del&tre. No. 4970. 



Bates, Kimball A Guild, Boston. A series of photo-mechanical reproductions of 



pencil drawings. No. 4839. 

 Bierstadt, E'., New York. A set of progressive proofs of a chromocollograph. Nos. 



4799-4805. 



