40 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1948 
The following were elected members of the executive committee for 
the ensuing year: David E. Finley, chairman, Robert Woods Bliss, 
and Gilmore D. Clarke. Paul Manship, as chairman of the Commis- 
sion, and Dr. Alexander Wetmore, as secretary of the Commission, are 
ex officio members of the executive committee. 
THE CATHERINE WALDEN MYER FUND 
Four miniatures, water color on ivory, were acquired from the fund 
established through the bequest of the late Catherine Walden Myer, 
as follows: 
64. William Furness, attributed to Benjamin Trott; from Ray Rink, Baltimore, 
Md. 
65. Matilda Watson (Mrs. John Watson), by Sarah Goodridge (1788-1853) ; 
from Bessie J. Howard, Boston, Mass. 
66. Clara Bartlet Gregory Catlin (wife of the artist), by George Catlin (1796— 
1872) ; from Mary Cogswell Kinney, Washington, D. C. 
67. Howes Goldsborough (1775-1841), by James Peale (1749-1831); from 
Edmund Bury, Philadelphia, Pa. 
LOANS ACCEPTED 
Twenty bronzes, by Frederic Remington, N. A. (1861-1909) : 
Bronco Buster (small cast), Bronco Buster (large cast), Bronco 
Buster (Bonnard cast), Comanche Indian, Dragoons, Mountain 
Trapper, Off the Range, Outlaw, Polo Players, Rattlesnake, Scalp, 
Scalp, Trooper of the Plains, Wicked Pony, Wounded Bunkie, Indian 
Head, Head of the Rough Rider, Mountain Trapper, Stampede, and 
Paleolithic Man; and one bronze by Sally James Farnham, Paleolithic 
Woman, were lent by the R. W. Norton Art Foundation, Shreveport, 
La. 
One miniature on ivory, Portrait of Miss Goss, by Eda Nemoede 
Casterton, was lent by the artist. 
WITHDRAWALS BY OWNERS 
Two oil paintings, Portrait of a Gentleman, by Sir William 
Beechey, and A Cottage Scene, by Ladbrooke, were withdrawn March 
23, 1948, by Mrs. Feroline Perkins Wallach, Administratrix of the 
Estate of Cleveland Perkins. 
LOANS TO OTHER MUSEUMS AND ORGANIZATIONS 
Two oil paintings, Fired On, by Frederic Remington, and Mist in 
Kanab Canyon, by Thomas Moran, were lent to The Washington 
County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Md., to be included in an 
exhibition “The American Indian and the West,” from September 14 
through November 2, 1947. (Returned November 3, 1947.) 
