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NATIONAL COLLECTION OF HEADS AND HORNS. 



On account of heavy expenditures in other directions, the 

 expenditures made during the year on these collections were 

 unusually small and unimportant. 



GALLERY OF OIL PAINTINGS. 



In accordance with the program laid down in 1912, your 

 committee ordered three more oil paintings of especially im- 

 portant animals. Mr. Carl Rungius executed for the Society a 

 large exhibition painting of a "Mule Deer in the Montana Bad- 

 Lands," and a life-size portrait of "Dinah," our gorilla. Mr. 

 Charles R. Knight painted for the Society a picture of a "Jaguar 

 at Home." 



At present seven paintings by Mr. Rungius and two by Mr. 

 Knight, including those for the year 1913, viz. — the "Prong- 

 Horned Antelope" and the "Snow Leopard," are on exhibition 

 at the Park in the Administration Building. An "Angel Fish," 

 also by Mr. Knight, is on exhibition at the Aquarium. 



Mr. Watson B. Dickerman has been elected a member of 

 the Art Committee to take the place of Mr. Emerson McMillin, 

 who resigned. 



One additional subscriber to the fund for this gallery of 

 paintings has been received, viz. — Mr. Joseph A. McAleenan, a 

 Life Member of the Society. 



The subscribers to this fund are as follows: 



Subscriptions of $250 a year for five years : 



Frank K. Sturgis, Lispenard Stewart, 



Percy R. Pyne, Mortimer L. Schiff, 



Joseph A. McAleenan. 



Conditional subscriptions of $250 a year: 



Cleveland H. Dodge, Edward S. Harkness, 

 C. Ledyard Blair, Watson B. Dickerman. 



It is the intention of your committee to complete a full 

 series of important American mammals at the earliest feasible 

 date. The approaching extermination of many of the most in- 

 teresting forms will make such a gallery of paintings of Ameri- 

 can wild life of unique and increasing value. 



