38 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1944 
PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT 
During the fiscal year 1944, the photographic laboratory of the 
Gallery made 6,037 black-and-white prints and 510 black-and-white 
and 1,117 color slides. 
OTHER GIFTS 
In the fiscal year ended June 30, 1944, gifts of books on works of art 
and related material were made to the Gallery library by the Honor- 
able Solomon Bloom, Mrs. Juliana Force, Mrs. Victor Harris, Macgill 
James, Pvt. Lincoln Kirstein, Leander McCormick-Goodhart, Capt. 
Paul Mellon, Lamont Moore, John H. Morgan, W. Francklyn Paris, 
Duncan Phillips, and Maj. Ray L. Trautman. Gifts of money were 
made to the Gallery during the year by Mrs. Florence Becker, David 
EK. Finley, Mrs. Deering Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Macgill James, Life 
Magazine, Mrs. H. A. McBride, Capt. Paul Mellon, Donald D. Shep- 
ard, Col. and Mrs. O. J. Troster, and the late Joseph E. Widener. 
AUDIT OF PRIVATE FUNDS OF THE GALLERY 
An audit is being made of the private funds of the Gallery for the 
year ended June 30, 1944, by Price, Waterhouse & Company, public 
accountants, and the certificate of that company on its examination 
of the accounting records maintained for such funds will be submitted 
to the Gallery. 
Respectfully submitted. 
F. L. Brewin, Acting President. 
Tur SECRETARY, 
Smithsonian Institution. 
