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It also recommended to the Board of Regents the reelection for 

 the succeeding term of 4 years of the following members : Charles L. 

 Borie, Jr., Frederick P. Keppel, George B. McClellan, and Mahonri 

 Young. 



The following officers were reelected for the ensuing year : Charles 

 L. Borie, Jr., chairman; Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., vice chairman; 

 and Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary; as well as the members of the 

 executive committee — Charles Moore, Herbert Adams, and George 

 B. McClellan (Charles L. Borie, Jr., as chairman of the Commission, 

 and Dr. Charles G. Abbot, as secretary of the Commission, are ex- 

 officio members of the executive committee). 



The advisability of recommending to the Board of Regents a change 

 in the name of the Commission was considered and the following 

 minute was agreed upon: 



Owing to the appropriation of the name "National Gallery of Art" to the 

 gallery being erected to contain the gift of Mr. Mellon, the Commission recom- 

 mends to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution that its name 

 be changed from "National Gallery of Art Commission" to "Smithsonian Gallery 

 of Art Commission." 1 



The question of a building for the Smithsonian Gallery of Art, to 

 contain the National Collection of Fine Arts, and of a site for such a 

 gallery, was discussed, and Dr. Abbot, Messrs. Borie, McClellan, 

 Moore, and Keppel (with the addition of Mr. Edgell in case Mr. 

 Keppel was not available) were appointed to consider the two pend- 

 ing Congressional resolutions on this subject (S. J. Res. 99, by Senator 

 Walsh, and H. J. Res. 280, by Representative Keller) . 



It was decided that future annual meetings should be held on the 

 first Tuesday in December of each year. 



THE CATHERINE WALDEN MTER FUND 



Five miniatures were acquired from the fund established through 

 the bequest of the late Catherine Walden Myer, as follows : 



"Portrait of Henry Trescot," painted in 1822 by Charles Fraser 

 (1782-1860) ; from Mrs. Grace M. Trescot, Washington, D. C. 



"Portrait of Elizabeth Knapp," by James Peale, 1802; from H. D. 

 Miller, Baltimore, Md. 



"Portrait of Charles Frederick Vogel," attributed to Rembrandt 

 Peale ; from Mrs. Margaret G. Mack Harrison, Raleigh Court, Univer- 

 sity, Va., through Miss Leila Mechlin. 



"Portrait of Dr. George Ackerly," by Henry Inman (1801-1846) : 

 from Mrs. Josephine C. Gager, Washington, D. C. 



"Portrait of Napoleon III," signed "F. de Fournier, Paris, 52;" 

 from Miss Marion Lane, Washington, D. C. 



ir Ihe Board of Regents, after careful consideration, decided that the name should be 

 "Smithsonian Art Commission." 



