20 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 
organized, it is constituted as follows: Mir. Francis D. Millet, presi- 
dent; Mr. Frederick Crowninshield, representing the Fine Arts 
Federation, of which he is the president; Mr. Edwin H. Blashfield, 
representing the National Academy of Design; Mr. Herbert Adams, 
representing the National Sculpture Society, of which he is the 
president; and Mr. William H. Holmes, of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, secretary of the committee. 
The failure to secure last winter the means necessary to provide 
suitable quarters for the paintings belonging to the gallery has 
retarded the segregation and arrangement of the collection, which, 
therefore, continues to be exhibited under very adverse conditions, 
not at all likely to attract the attention of those who might other- 
wise gladly contribute to its growth. Some important donations of 
pictures were, however, received. 
Mr. William T. Evans has added to his collection of contemporary 
American artists since the last report paintings by Hugo Ballin, 
George de Forest Brush, F. S. Church, Henry Golden Dearth, 
Charles Melville Dewey, Paul Dougherty, Ben Foster, Childe Has- 
sam, Ernest Lawson, Willard LeRoy Metcalf, Robert Reid, R. M. 
Shurtleff, John H. Twachtman, Henry Oliver Walker, Worthington 
Whittredge, Carleton Wiggins, Irving R. Wiles, and Frederick Bal- 
lard Williams. Among other gifts of paintings were the following: 
“ Crossing the Ferry,” by Adrien Moreau, presented by Mrs. James 
Lowndes in memory of her father, Lucius Tuckerman; and “ Indian 
Summer Day,” by Max Wey], presented by thirty of his Washington 
friends in commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the artist’s 
birth. Mr. Charles L. Freer has made very extensive additions to his 
large collection of American and oriental art, donated to the Institu- 
tion in 1906, which, it will be recalled, is to remain in the possession 
of Mr. Freer during his life. 
The collection of thirteen historical marine paintings executed by 
the late Edward Moran during the later years of his life has, through 
the courtesy of Mr. Theodore Sutro, of New York, been temporarily 
deposited in the galiery at the Museum building. The several pictures 
are entitled as follows: “The Ocean—The Highway of All Nations; ” 
“Landing of Lief Erickson in the New World in the Year 1001;” 
“The Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta;” “ The Debarkation of Colum- 
bus;” “ Midnight Mass on the Mississippi, over the Body of Ferdi- 
nand De Soto, 1542;” “ Henry Hudson entering New York Bay, 
September 11th, 1609;” “ Embarkation of the Pilgrims from South- 
ampton, August 5th, 1620;” “ First Recognition of the American 
Flag by a Foreign Government, in the Harbor of Quiberon, France, 
February 13th, 1778:” * Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the 
Harbor of Tripoli, February 16th, 1804;” “The Brig Armstrong 
engaging the British Fleet in the Harbor of Fayal, September 26th, 
