34 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1948 
ture by Mr. Cairns at the University of Mexico was published by the 
University of Mexico, and a Spanish translation of an article by 
Mr. Cairns on “Leibniz’ Theory of Law” appeared in an Argentine 
legal review. Mr. Cairns also edited with an introduction a volume 
entitled “Lectures in Criticism,” to be published in the early fall. 
His review of Randolph E. Paul’s “Taxation for Prosperity” was pub- 
lished in Tax Law Review. 
A series of 12 articles on French paintings in the Gallery, pref- 
aced by one entitled “Connoisseurship and Nineteenth-Century French 
Painting,” was published by John Walker in the Ladies’ Home Jour- 
nal. Charles Seymour, Jr., published an article on “XIII Century 
Sculpture at Noyon” and another entitled “Houdon’s Washington at 
Mount Vernon Reexamined” in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Fern 
Rusk Shapley contributed to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Articles 
and book reviews by James W. Lane appeared in the Gazette des 
Beaux-Arts, The College Art Journal, Art in America, The Ameri- 
can Collector, Antiques, The Catholic World, and Commonweal. 
Charles M. Richards contributed an article on measurements to Mu- 
seum News. “A Study of a Painting Done by a Mental Patient,” by 
Erwin O. Christensen, was published in “Case Studies in the Psy- 
chopathology of Crime.” 
A book of illustrations on the painting and sculpture in the Widener 
Collection was issued during the year. Members of the curatorial staff 
prepared a check list of the paintings from the Berlin museums, which 
was placed on sale during the exhibition. A catalog of the paintings 
presented by Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth was also prepared for the 
opening of that exhibit. 
Since 1941 the history of the Publications Fund has been one of 
continual growth and development, and the fiscal year 1948 marks 
another step in providing a varied but well-balanced selection of pub- 
lications and reproductions for public use. 
The Publications Fund has continued to supply color reproductions 
of fine quality at a moderate price. During the year 8 new 11-inch 
by 14-inch color reproductions, 8 new color postcards, including 6 
subjects from the Index of American Design, and 19 large collotype 
reproductions were made available. Of the large collotype reproduc- 
tions, the Publications Fund now has 71 available. A new item was 
supplied this year in the form of playing-card sets, two of which por- 
trayed subjects from the Index of American Design, and one of re- 
productions of paintings in the Gallery’s collections. 
Catalogues of the various collections continue to be popular. Dur- 
ing the year, increased distribution exhausted the supplies of the 
Chester Dale Catalogue, the Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and 
Sculpture, and the catalogue entitled Indigenous Art of the Americas. 
A fifth edition of the Chester Dale Catalogue is on order, and a textual 
