SECRETARY’S REPORT 209 
cantatas “The Confederacy” and “The Union” in Constitution Hall 
in October 1957. Early in 1958 Columbia Records released its record- 
ing of “The Union.” During March 1958 Mr. Bales appeared as guest 
conductor at the Eleventh Annual Folk Music Festival in Wilmington, 
Ohio, in performance of one of his compositions. Five Sunday eve- 
nings during May and June 1958 were devoted to the Gallery’s Fif- 
teenth American Music Festival. All the concerts were broadcast 
in their entirety by WGMS-AM and FM in Washington. The inter- 
missions during Sunday evening concerts featured discussions by 
members of the Educational Office staff and Mr. Bales. 
During the fiscal year 3,104 copies of 12 press releases were issued 
in connection with Gallery activities. One hundred twenty-eight 
permits to copy paintings and 166 permits to photograph in the Gal- 
lery were also issued. 
The Photographic Laboratory of the Gallery produced 11,680 
prints, 733 black-and-white slides, 733 color slides, 1,811 black-and- 
white negatives, 70 color-separation negatives, 171 color transparen- 
cies, 63 infrareds, 33 ultraviolets, and 103 enlargements. 
During the fiscal year a program was undertaken to distribute sets 
of 500 color slides (2’’ x 2’) to a number of educational institutions. 
The first distribution was made in groups of 100 slides to 103 institu- 
tions. Subsequent sets will be shipped in groups of 100 each until the 
project is completed. 
OTHER GIFTS 
Gifts of money were made during the fiscal year 1958 by the Old 
Dominion Foundation, Avalon Foundation, George M. and Pamela 
A. Humphrey Fund, Miss Anita Rattner, Howell Foreman, and 
Mrs. Oma Jeane Rauh. 
AUDIT OF PRIVATE FUNDS OF THE GALLERY 
An audit of the private funds of the Gallery will be made for the 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1958, by Price Waterhouse & Co., public 
accountants, and the certificate of that company on its examination 
of the accounting records maintained for such funds will be for- 
warded to the Gallery. 
Respectfully submitted. 
Hontineron Cairns, Secretary. 
Dr. Leonarp CaRMICHAEL, 
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 
