SECRETARY’S REPORT 205 
Encyclopedia of American Antiques, vols. 1 and 2, 1958, published 
by Hawthorne Books. John Pancoast, registrar, reviewed “Museum 
Registration Methods” for the Museum News. Dr. Cooke wrote an 
article on George Bellows for the America magazine. Members of the 
curatorial staff assisted in the installation of the exhibitions and 
publication of the catalogs for the Korean, Blake, and Stieglitz 
exhibitions. 
During the past fiscal year the Publications Fund published 2 new 
11-by-14-inch color reproductions, 3 new color and 8 new black-and- 
white postcards. Four additional large collotype reproductions of 
paintings on exhibition were produced by outside publishers and 
placed on sale by the fund. 
The A. W. Mellon Lecture in the Fine Arts by Dr. Etienne Gilson, 
entitled “Painting and Reality,” published in book form, was placed 
on sale. The following additional books related to the collection or 
with text by a staff member were made available: Pre-Columbian 
Art, A Guide to Art Museums in the U. S.—East Coast, and Three 
Hundred Years of American Painting. A revised second edition of 
Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art was pub- 
lished by the Fund. 
Other new items made available during the year include the record- 
ing of Richard Bales’s cantata, “The Union,” on sculpture reproduc- 
tion, and playing cards reproducing two National Gallery paintings. 
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM 
The program of the Educational Office was carried out under the 
supervision of the curator in charge of educational work and his 
staff who lectured and conducted guided tours in the Gallery on the 
works of art in its collection. 
The attendance for the general tours, Congressional tours, “Tours 
of the Week,” and “Pictures of the Week” totaled 48,983, while that 
of the auditorium lectures on Sunday afternoons was approximately 
12,914 during the fiscal year 1958. 
Tours, lectures, and conferences were arranged by special appoint- 
ment for 284 groups and individuals. The total number of people 
served in this manner was 8,097, an increase over last year of 457 
persons. These special appointments were made for such groups as 
the various governmental agencies, educators (foreign and Ameri- 
can), religious groups, heads of museums, radio and television repre- 
sentatives, and convention groups. 
The program of training volunteer docents continued during the 
fiscal year. Seventy-four ladies were given special instruction under 
the general supervision of the curator in charge of educational work. 
By special arrangement with the school systems of the District.of 
