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Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional, San Jose, Costa Eica; 

 and the Hope Gardens, Department of Agriculture, Kingston, 

 Jamaica. 



Material was also exchanged with the following individuals 

 abroad: Messrs. Sowerby and Fulton, Eiverside, Kew, Mr. Oldfield 

 Thomas, London, and Prof. Arthur Thomson, Oxford, England; 

 M. Marius Filliozat, Vend^me, M. Stanislas Meunier and Prof. C. E. 

 Porter, Paris, Prof. A. Peyrot, Bordeaux, and M. C. Vaney, Lyon, 

 France; Mr. Frantz de Laet, Contich, Belgium; Prof. L. Doderlein, 

 Strassburg, Mr. J. A. Purpus, Darmstadt, and Mr. L. Quehl, Halle 

 (Saale), Germany; Dr. J. Perner, Prague, Bohemia, Victor Eitter 

 von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, Salzburg, Austria ; Mr. Eunar Forsius, 

 Helsingfors, Finland; Maj. F. Wall, Chitral, Northwest Frontier, 

 and Mr. E. Masillamani, Trivandrum, India ; Mr. Frank M. Littler, 

 Launceston, Tasmania; Dr. Arthur Neiva, Eio de Janeiro, Brazil; 

 Sehor F. Eichlam, Guatemala; and Seiior A. Toiiduz, San Jose, 

 Costa Eica. 



NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 



The paintings of the National Gallery of Art, which occupy the 

 central part of the middle hall in the new building, remained on 

 exhibition throughout the year except for a period of two months, 

 from the last of January until the last of March, 1911, when they 

 were removed to permit of the painting of the adjacent walls. In 

 reinstalling them the same general arrangement was observed, though 

 some changes were made in the distribution of individual pictures. 



Mr. William T. Evans, of New York, continued his generous bene- 

 factions, adding 13 examples to his collection of the works of con- 

 temporary American painters, which has attracted so much attention 

 throughout the art world and which now consists of 127 pieces, repre- 

 senting 90 artists. The contributions of the year comprised " Ply- 

 mouth Hills," by John W. Beatty ; " The Wain Team," by George 

 Elmer Browne; " Caresse Enfantine," by Mary Cassatt; "May 

 Flowers," by Louise Cox; "The Plaza," by William E. Derrick; 

 " Depths of the Woods," by Lillian Matilde Genth ; " The Georgian 

 Chair," by Childe Hassam; "Friendly Neighbors," by Alfred C. 

 Howland ; " Idle Hours," by Henry Siddons Mowbray ; " Mists of 

 the Morning," by George Glenn Newell ; " The Mirror," by Eobert 

 Eeid ; "Algerian Water Carrier," by William Sartain ; and " Co- 

 lumbus Circle — Winter," by Guy C. Wiggins. Two of these paint- 

 ings, " Plymouth Hills " and " Depths of the Woods," had not been 

 received in Washington at the close of the year, having been per- 

 mitted to remain on exhibition elsewhere. The latter, at the time of 



