10 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
National Gallery of Art-—The Gallery during the year received 
1,730 accessions by gift, loan, or deposit. Ten special exhibitions 
were held, and 18 traveling exhibitions of prints from the Rosenwald 
Collection were circulated elsewhere. Exhibitions from the “Index 
of American Design” were given 26 bookings in 9 States. Nearly 
44,000 persons attended the general tours conducted by Gallery per- 
sonnel, and over 8,000 attended tours and lectures by special appoint- 
ment. The Sunday afternoon lectures drew a total attendance of 
about 13,000 persons. The Sunday evening concerts in the east 
garden court were continued. 
Library.—The library received a total of 53,274 publications during 
the year; 128 new exchanges were arranged. Outstanding among 
the gifts were a large collection of philatelic items and nearly 2,700 
books and reprints on Diptera. At the close of the year the holdings 
of the library and all its branches aggregated 974,893 volumes, in- 
cluding 586,722 in the Smithsonian Deposit at the Library of Con- 
gress but excluding unbound periodicals and reprints and separates 
from serial publications. 
Publications.—Kighty-one new publications appeared under Smith- 
sonian imprint during the year. (See Report on Publications, p. 215, 
for full list.) Outstanding among these were: “Araucanian Child 
Life and Its Cultural Background,” by Sister M. Inez Hilger; “The 
Medical and Veterinary Importance of Cockroaches,” by Louis M. 
Roth and Edwin R. Willis; “Geology of Barro Colorado Island, 
Canal Zone,” by W. P. Woodring; “The History of Entomology in 
World War II,” by Emory C. Cushing; “Life Histories of North 
American Blackbirds, Orioles, Tanagers, and Allies,” by Arthur 
Cleveland Bent; “Studies in Foraminifera,” by Alfred R. Loeblich, 
Jr., and collaborators; “The Bromeliaceae of Colombia,” by Lyman 
B. Smith; “Archeological Investigations at the Mouth of the Ama- 
zon,” by Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans; “Orbital Data and 
Preliminary Analyses of Satellites 1957 Alpha and 1957 Beta,” by 
various authors; and Ars Orientalis, volume 2. Three popular pub- 
lications were issued. In all, 530,662 copies of printed matter were 
distributed. 
CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF 
John E. Graf, Assistant Secretary, retired on December 31, 1957, 
after more than 26 years with the Institution, first as Associate Direc- 
tor of the United States National Museum and since 1945 as Assistant 
Secretary of the Institution. 
On February 4, 1958, Dr. Remington Kellogg was appointed As- 
sistant Secretary of the Institution. Dr. Kellogg has been a member 
of the Smithsonian staff since 1928—since 1948 as Director of the 
