40 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
Committee also performed preliminary work in the preparation 
of the examination announcement for art positions which was dis- 
tributed by the Civil Service Commission with a closing date of 
April 19, 1949. From this examination registers of eligibles will be 
established for appointment to art positions in the Gallery and 
elsewhere in the Government. This will give the present incumbents, 
most of whom are serving indefinite war-time appointments, an 
opportunity to attain permanent status, and will also make available 
a greater number of qualified candidates. 
OTHER ACTIVITIES 
Forty-six Sunday evening concerts were given during the fiscal 
year, all concerts being held in the East Garden Court. A Mozart 
Festival of six concerts was given in the autumn with the highest 
attendance rate for the season. The five Sunday evenings in May 
were devoted to the Gallery’s annual American Music Festival. An 
estimated 50,000 persons attended these concerts. 
During the year the photographic laboratory of the Gallery made 
17,709 prints, 1,342 black-and-white slides, 1,005 color slides, 3,873 
negatives, in addition to infrared photographs, ultraviolet photographs, 
X-rays, and color separation negatives. 
A total of 3,500 copies of press releases, 128 special permits to copy 
paintings in the National Gallery of Art, and 117 special permits to 
photograph in the Gallery were issued during the year. 
OTHER GIFTS 
Gifts of books on art and related material were made to the Gallery 
library during the year by Paul Mellon and others. Gifts of money 
during the fiscal year 1949 were made by the Avalon Foundation and 
The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, and a cash 
bequest was received from the Estate of the late William Nelson 
Cromwell. 
AUDIT OF PRIVATE FUNDS OF THE GALLERY 
An audit of the private funds of the Gallery has been made for the 
fiscal year ended June 30, 1949, 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 forwarded 
to the Gallery. 
Respectfully submitted. 
Huntineton Cairns, Secretary. 
THe SECRETARY, 
Smithsonian Institution. 
