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February I4. to March 15, 1935. — Forty lithographs of Boulder 

 Dam by William Woollett, architect. No catalogs were provided, 

 each specimen being plainly labeled. 



April Jf. to 30, 1935. — Oil paintings and water colors by the Misses 

 Elena and Bertha de Hellebranth, exhibited under the patronage of 

 His Excellency the Minister of Hungary, John Pelenyi. Cards were 

 issued by the Gallery and folder-catalogs furnished by the exhibitors. 



May 2 to 31, 1935. — Exhibition of pastel studies (65) of Egyptian 

 peasant types, by Howard Fremont Stratton, under the patronage 

 of His Excellency Ibrahim Katib Bey, E. E. and M. P. of His 

 Majesty the King of Egypt, and others. Cards were issued by the 

 Gallery, but no catalogs were furnished, each specimen being plainly 

 labeled. 



June 4 to 20, 1935. — Oil paintings, water colors, and drawings by 

 artists enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps camps were shown 

 under the direction of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work 

 and members of his Advisory Council. 



THE NATIONAL GALLERY REFERENCE LIBRARY 



The library now comprises over 4,500 publications, accessions for 

 the year amounting to 568, acquired by gift, exchange, and purchase. 

 Books totaling 773, in addition to 1,162 parts of publications, were 

 transferred from the section of administration of the United States 

 National Museum to form part of the National Gallery Library when 

 cataloged. 



SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 



The acting director visited various museums throughout the coun- 

 try for the purpose of studying their collections as follows : 



A visit was made (July 27 to Aug. 24, 1934) to Philadelphia, 

 Princeton, Newark, and to practically all the public art collections in 

 New England, from New Haven, Conn., to Brunswick, Maine, to 

 Burlington, Vt., and down the Connecticut Valley back to New 

 Haven. 



A special exhibition of 50 paintings by Frans Hals was visited at 

 the Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Mich., in February 1935. 



The opportunity was taken to visit and study the exhibition of 

 miniatures, the product of the leading painters of the eighteenth and 

 nineteenth centuries, shown at the Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, 

 Charleston, S. C, February and March 1935. 



Glass, and the making of glass, at the Corning Glass Works, 

 Corning, N. Y., were studied in June 1935, in connection with the 

 work of John Northwood, of which the National Gallery has a fine 

 example in the John Gellatly Collection. 



